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Ohh, finally a city going in the right direction. I can't wait until they discover the "roundabout" and how it calms traffic, improves flow, and also lowers accidents
I mean, good for them for finally making first steps, better late than never, but seriously: This is stuff that has been available for decades now.
Please, more, lots more!
Roundabouts are freakin amazing - they reduce fatal crashes by like 90% compared to signalized intersections and most people dont realize they actually improve traffic flow once drivers get used to them!
In my home town in the Netherlands they lowered max speed city wide to 30km/h (about 20mph) and almost every traffic light intersection (except a few larger ones) have been replaced with roundabouts.
The result is that driving just... Goes. You don't really stop anywhere, almost ever, and you can do about 30 km in an hour, not much slower than here in Vancouver where i just did 30 kilometers in 45 minutes and literally part of that trip was over a highway at 100km/h.
Its incredibly much more efficient yet if i tell that to people here they won't even let me finish, they immediately start screeching about how bad those designs are and that the stop sign intersections are so much more efficient and.... Uuugghhh
If you look at Pittsburgh's roads, they're quite constrained by the geography. I'm not saying you're wrong but it wouldn't be easy.
All the more reason to change it for roundabouts and change half the roads for cycling infrastructure.