Alright, one last one for the uh, morning.

I managed to resolve the traffic dilemma for my Quads in a way that is both simple and kind of hilarious, and which ends up fitting two conditions.

  1. Fuck through traffic.
  2. If you’re going somewhere within your Klick (kilometer development of four ‘quads’ for those who haven’t read the other posts), you go on foot, bike, or at most a golf cart, unless you’re moving furniture in a van, in which case it’s worth it to drive all the way around.

Here’s how it works.

The klick has two one-way intake roads, east/west, of four lanes each. A single lane splits off from the intake for each quad, going straight into a parking lot. The other two lanes go to a roundabout. The klick also has two one-way outflow roads, which the roundabout leads to. Each quad has one lane from its parking lot to the outflow road. Through traffic east/west will always get directed north/south, and thus rarely has a reason to enter the klick.

This is overkill for the 300 resident quad above, but for a more developed quad the throughput would be astounding. With little through traffic, each quad has two dedicated exit lanes, with a very long turning lane to queue up in. If these exit onto a six lane road, the center two lanes out of four can turn in either direction.