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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Wed Dec 17 08:11:08 2014, in response to Re: Queens Blvd, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Dec 16 21:39:10 2014. Many drivers there don't consider 95 to be the primary route, no matter what the FWHA standards say. Hence: The AASHTO Green Book provides additional guidance on designing to achieve consistency with this principle: "In the process of maintaining route continuity, particularly through cities and bypasses, interchange configurations need not always favor the heavy movement but rather the through route. In this situation, heavy movements can be designed on flat curves with reasonably direct connections and auxiliary lanes, equivalent operationally to through movements." The ITE Freeway and Interchange Geometric Design Handbook provides additional advice: "It is the through facility (the designated route) that should always maintain its directional character. However, any predominant movement separating from the freeway should form a well-aligned exit on the right, operationally equivalent to the through movement." In other words, I-95 is supposed to be a "left exit" at that interchange, even though it technically isn't an exit. |
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