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Originally Posted by fotze
That intersection in New York is a disaster. Amazing what just some paint and some medians do. Pedestrians and drivers have no idea where the hell to be going which is a recipe for disaster. People assume that the roads should be designed for the people driving the same road 200 days a year, but we all know as drivers (in cruel and ironic fashion)that traffic is ruthlessly dictated by the biggest strugglers. You can have 99% awesome drivers, but that 1% dictates how the rest go.
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Kind of speaks to my point. We have decades of history driving a certain way, understanding how intersections *should* work which is the problem. For your point to stand we'd have to demonstrate that accidents are just as common with this new design and that it's a disaster by design not be lack of familiarity. I'd be pretty confident that both answers would support the redesign.