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The most unusual road junctions
Traffic - the curse of any modern metropolis. To save time, the inhabitants of towns and distribute the flow of vehicles, design engineers often resort to sweeping solutions, which we describe in our material.
Decoupling behalf judge Harry Predzhersona, Los Angeles
One of the most complicated in the world of road constructions, uniting routes for passenger transport, transit roads and railway tracks Harbor Green Line LA Metro was opened in 1993. This is a tricky road plexus, located at the intersection of Highway I-105, leading from El Segundo in Norwalk, and I-110, the next of San Pedro in Los Angeles, is a reason the name of a federal judge Harry Predzhersona. Like the famous the lawyer who managed to find out in the wilds of the court dispute concerning the construction of I-105 interchange car masterfully resolves endless streams of cars. In just one day this labyrinth allows you to rotate in any direction in all areas of the path crosses more than 500 thousand cars. The problem is only one - is to miss one, the one right turn, and become an engineering marvel for you in an endless Mobius strip.
Circular Cycle interchange, Eindhoven
State support for cyclists, launched in the Netherlands, led to dramatic results: in recent years, most of the population prefers to use in the home eco-friendly and economical two-wheeled transport. For the convenience of those who chose to abandon the car began to create a special infrastructure - for example, a unique road junction The Honvering in Eindhoven. This circular steel bridge suspended above the busy transportation hub, allows bypass roads. Amazing design is held in the central 70-meter pole with metal wires, and the reliability of reinforced concrete columns and more. The Hovering creators say: the future just for such technologies, nullifies the traffic accidents and unusual landscapes adorn the futuristic design.
Decoupling Greyvelli Hill, Birmingham
Construction confusing, if a ball of yarn, road junction in Birmingham took four years. Many technological and engineering problems zagvozdok stood in the way designers are forced to merge into a single network of rail lines and two 18 road routes, from the road of national importance A38 leading from Cornwall in Northempshir to narrow country roads that do not have names, and throw it all over three channels and two rivers. To ensure the best throughput and good stability builders were forced to re-lay almost 22 kilometers of pavement and install 59 columns by placing the highway on five different height levels. With a light hand of a local newspaper reporter result of hard work, which was the world in May 1972, received a playful nickname "Decoupling spaghetti." Painfully this frightening design reminiscent of a "mixture with pasta dishes and an unsuccessful attempt to tie the knot Staffordshire».
Road interchange on Taganka Square, Moscow
Even those who know the "rules of the game" and long moves on Taganka streets, alleys, often lost on the Garden Ring. What can we say about those who first arrived at the intersection of the busiest roads in Moscow, which lie at the heart of the central district of the capital. Where Big Krasnokholmsky bridge connects to the earth wall street, always chaos. Several roads leading to the Lower and Upper Radishchevskaya, pottery, Marxist, Vorontsov, Taganka, People's streets and numbering six or more lanes, teeming with endless rows of cars. Incessant noise of a passing vehicle cut sharp signals and traffic jams during rush hours can not see any end or edge. Colorful picture of one of the worst road junctions world complete the two stations of the Moscow metro, bus stop, and the almost complete absence of pointers.
Interchange at the Place Charles de Gaulle, Paris
Brilliant French city planners who gave Paris Etoile, certainly did not have the foresight. Over the past century, "snout" near the famed Arc de Triomphe, a lively, even by the standards of the XIX century, turned into a living hell for motorists. Despite the fact that from the central parade ground, though the star's rays in different directions 12 straight and wide avenues, and several subway lines converge, RER, bus routes and roads, there is no traffic lights or signs priority. No wonder that even the Parisian taxi drivers, traveling on the district on a hundred times a day, sad sigh, received an order for the Place Charles de Gaulle. Neither intuition nor a good knowledge of traffic rules, nor many years driving experience does not prevent terror that reigns here at rush hour: at the roundabout, found himself in the most difficult routes in the world happens to be a few accidents per hour.
Decoupling behalf judge Harry Predzhersona, Los Angeles
One of the most complicated in the world of road constructions, uniting routes for passenger transport, transit roads and railway tracks Harbor Green Line LA Metro was opened in 1993. This is a tricky road plexus, located at the intersection of Highway I-105, leading from El Segundo in Norwalk, and I-110, the next of San Pedro in Los Angeles, is a reason the name of a federal judge Harry Predzhersona. Like the famous the lawyer who managed to find out in the wilds of the court dispute concerning the construction of I-105 interchange car masterfully resolves endless streams of cars. In just one day this labyrinth allows you to rotate in any direction in all areas of the path crosses more than 500 thousand cars. The problem is only one - is to miss one, the one right turn, and become an engineering marvel for you in an endless Mobius strip.
Circular Cycle interchange, Eindhoven
State support for cyclists, launched in the Netherlands, led to dramatic results: in recent years, most of the population prefers to use in the home eco-friendly and economical two-wheeled transport. For the convenience of those who chose to abandon the car began to create a special infrastructure - for example, a unique road junction The Honvering in Eindhoven. This circular steel bridge suspended above the busy transportation hub, allows bypass roads. Amazing design is held in the central 70-meter pole with metal wires, and the reliability of reinforced concrete columns and more. The Hovering creators say: the future just for such technologies, nullifies the traffic accidents and unusual landscapes adorn the futuristic design.
Decoupling Greyvelli Hill, Birmingham
Construction confusing, if a ball of yarn, road junction in Birmingham took four years. Many technological and engineering problems zagvozdok stood in the way designers are forced to merge into a single network of rail lines and two 18 road routes, from the road of national importance A38 leading from Cornwall in Northempshir to narrow country roads that do not have names, and throw it all over three channels and two rivers. To ensure the best throughput and good stability builders were forced to re-lay almost 22 kilometers of pavement and install 59 columns by placing the highway on five different height levels. With a light hand of a local newspaper reporter result of hard work, which was the world in May 1972, received a playful nickname "Decoupling spaghetti." Painfully this frightening design reminiscent of a "mixture with pasta dishes and an unsuccessful attempt to tie the knot Staffordshire».
Road interchange on Taganka Square, Moscow
Even those who know the "rules of the game" and long moves on Taganka streets, alleys, often lost on the Garden Ring. What can we say about those who first arrived at the intersection of the busiest roads in Moscow, which lie at the heart of the central district of the capital. Where Big Krasnokholmsky bridge connects to the earth wall street, always chaos. Several roads leading to the Lower and Upper Radishchevskaya, pottery, Marxist, Vorontsov, Taganka, People's streets and numbering six or more lanes, teeming with endless rows of cars. Incessant noise of a passing vehicle cut sharp signals and traffic jams during rush hours can not see any end or edge. Colorful picture of one of the worst road junctions world complete the two stations of the Moscow metro, bus stop, and the almost complete absence of pointers.
Interchange at the Place Charles de Gaulle, Paris
Brilliant French city planners who gave Paris Etoile, certainly did not have the foresight. Over the past century, "snout" near the famed Arc de Triomphe, a lively, even by the standards of the XIX century, turned into a living hell for motorists. Despite the fact that from the central parade ground, though the star's rays in different directions 12 straight and wide avenues, and several subway lines converge, RER, bus routes and roads, there is no traffic lights or signs priority. No wonder that even the Parisian taxi drivers, traveling on the district on a hundred times a day, sad sigh, received an order for the Place Charles de Gaulle. Neither intuition nor a good knowledge of traffic rules, nor many years driving experience does not prevent terror that reigns here at rush hour: at the roundabout, found himself in the most difficult routes in the world happens to be a few accidents per hour.
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