Turning Right to go Left - The Jug Handle and Quadrant intersection 

Exactly! :)

You see a lot of variants of this in London. Sometimes blocks turned into roundabouts with lights and sometimes like this.

Or... build some bike infrastructure. That works here in the Netherlands.

What an uninteresting solution in game though. “Buy the dlc, and upgrade your roads”.

@@YUMBL did I miss something, who said that?

I was in Paramus recently. Loved the jug handles. You’re right, theyre great on a more minor crossing so turning left after the handle is an easy stop sign.

Makes more sense to me. I mean just one way prioritizing left. Like this on one cycle you go straight and right and in one cycle you go left . That applies to every directions. Using tmpe you can prioritise by the jump in and not let the ppl going straight doing the same. It might work for better flowing. In my view you will need 4 highway crossing so space will be an issue

I will support this here as well. Live south of Nestor, but also in NJ. Jughandles save so much space where Clovers take up too much. There is still issue with both sides trying to turn left (I.E. If you ar going Northbound and take the Jug, you are facing West. If you turn left you made a U-Turn. But going straight is your "left" without sitting in the Northbound traffic. Only issue I know of is that the West-face and East-Face (if South-bound also has a Jug, or if either side has a connecting road which people want to enter/exit from) cannot both have a left turn and a straight. (North- and South-bound cannot have both a Left Turn and U-Turn without a 3-stage light.) If you need straight-through traffic, a double clover leaf might be better. But that also prevents U-Turns.

I didn't even see this post, I said the same thing about them being one way, lol.

Yeah Route 22 is loaded with them east of Bridgewater.

Oh, you mean phases like these: 1st is a W-E straight-only phase, with pedestrians; 2nd is a W-E phase with ALL right turns (where right turns onto the W-E road have to get a dedicated lane); 3rd is a N-S straight-only phase, with pedestrians; 4th is a N-S phase with ALL right turns again (where right turns onto the N-S road get dedicated lanes). That gives "exactly" 50% green for each straight. And depending on the time ratio of phases 1&3 to 2&4 you get approximately 50% green for each rights and approximately 25% green for each pedestrian crossing.

Technically any 2-phase intersection can also be made pedestrian friendly with just a 3rd "all-right" phase. The first phase would still handle all straight N-S movements (similar to the 2-phase light, but without the right turns so that pedestrians can cross in N-S directions); The second phase would be for for all straight W-E movements (including pedestrians, but no right turns). However, the 2-quadrant Jughandle has 2 of the right turns use those Jughandle ramps as slip lanes. If you used that fact, you could have a 3-phase pedestrian-friendly light in the center, and only free-flowing outlying junctions! Here's how: The 1st phase in the center handles all straight N-S movements (no rights, with pedestrians). The 2nd phase handles all W-E movements (no rights, with pedestrians). The rights from East to North and from West to South use the Jughandle rams (assuming the orientation shown at 4:58). The 3rd phase then only needs to handle South-to-East and North-to-West right turns, which leaves the center of the main intersection free to have the opposing East-to-South and West-to-North left turns go at the same time (through the main intersection). In that phase, you could even have pedestrians cross diagonally in the NE-SW direction. The remaining left turns, for example South-to-West, can proceed like in a cloverleaf: straight S-to-N, right into the NE jughandle, right onto the E-to-W avenue and in that direction through the main intersection (and similarly for North-to-East). One problem with this would be that the outlying free-flowing intersections would not be very safe for pedestrians.

Love that :)

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Perhaps a different name, like a "bowtie", would've made better sense? The whole intersection with the 2 "jug handles" looks kinda like a "bowtie" to me.

@@ShadowWolfTJC a true NJ jug handle is more curved like a highway cloverleaf ramp. I think he combined two ideas for this intersection build

I'd personally call this road a "bowtie" instead, since the whole intersection, including the "jug handles", kinda resembles one.

I’m from trenton and we don’t see any over here. But every time I go down to Toms River area they are plentiful, including hooper Ave. they work pretty well over there but even more dense areas like US-1 through Lawrenceville (at the corner of Bakers Basin Rd/Franklin Corner Rd) it becomes impossible to get in because of the close proximity of the jughandle to the intersection (it’s one where you have to turn left onto the minor road). I like them but sometimes they are a pain.

Wait, do you guys literally have an issue where underpasses increase crime?😳

Thanks for watching :)

I’ve tried the toll booth method. It felt inconsistent and hard to measure with multiple booths working.

I believe I said that in the middle of the vid :)

Precisely :)

I bet businesses would love the fact that there's huge volumes of fairly slow traffic using these jughandles. The only problem is that you can only come from 3 directions onto each jughandle road, and you can only leave each jughandle road in 3 of the 4 directions. No wait, you can get from one quadrant to the other! That means you can freely move between them, as long as there's parking lots in each one that you can use to turn around.

@@Pystro I was thinking this too, it could be great areas to place business.

In a way, yes. I do think of them as related. The movements are just programmed a bit differently.

I think that could work :)

See my median u-turn video for that type of idea. Similar.

And never mind my post, lol. Just saw the other person from Jersey saying about them being one way, lol.

I know that exists, but every one ive been in is a right hand turn before the intersection, and a stop sign to turn left. There are many of these in northern jersey.

Much appreciated :)

Same here to a degree. Thanks :)

Yes! Agreed :)

This is correct. Theres an element of luck (randomness) in what cars are going where, but generally that wasnt an issue.

Yeah, you could probably mitigate that by offsetting the phase of the outlying intersections and the center one. Using that same top-left to right-jughandle movement: First (in the 1st phase, 0% through the cycle) the cars would get green going straight through the top left outlying junction (and for symmetry also straights through the bottom right one); then the center would switch green (in the 2nd phase, 25% through the cycle, with the outlying junctions still green for straights); and once those cars arrive at the bottom right junction, it would switch to the 3rd phase (50% through the cycle), where the outlying junctions (both, for symmetry) turn green for the left movements (center still unchanged). At 75% through the cycle the middle would switch to green for the other direction, starting the 4th phase. (This would coincide with the last car that made it straight through the outlying junctions in the 1st and 2nd phase clearing that center junction. And at 100% through the cycle you'd start over with the 1st phase. (And this would be exactly when that last car that made it straight through the outlying junction at the end of the 2nd phase and through the center at the end of the 3rd phase would clear the left through the outlying junction.) The other left turns (which proceed like in a cloverleaf) need to travel twice as far between catching the central junction at opposite phases, though. But that can be solved by setting the speed limit on the jughandle ramps to exactly half of that of the avenues. Then they will take exactly 6 phases for their movement through the loops.

It sounds like taking the recycling out to me 😂

A parclo :)

Also, there actually is an at-grade cloverleaf: Toms River NJ, Hooper Ave @ Bay Ave.

Run.

@@YUMBL 😂

They do! Look up “VDOT” on youtube

@@YUMBL Nice! I wish every DOT was like VDOT and IowaDOT in this matter.

Educating people about the more unique solutions is important, yes

Nice! I wanted to do this one with no grade separation (over/under passes)

No, I havent seen it

Funny thing: no matter where you put the opposing corners you’ve made both variants. It would be important to note which road has more traffic though

Love em!

There's one at the junction of US 9 and Aldrich Road in NJ

Its all just to increase the capacity a bit. This could move more traffic than a single light.

I have a median u turn video that uses similar principles

Thanks! Zoning adjuster, fine road tools, fine road anarchy, and node spacer are all separate mods

@@YUMBL Ahh, it looks like they are apart of the same HUD in the video! Thanks.

@@Gradymeister Unified UI puts them all in a single button.

No. I talk about that in the middle of the video. That makes the worst cloverleaf ever. Aka a “weave machine”

Yes, i have several mod videos.

Exactly!

I havent. Measuring it would require counting. Hours and hours of counting.

Jug handles can work in all directions. All that matters here is the two cycle light. All movements are designed to support that.

Road color changer ++

Correct. “At-grade parclo”

There would still be traffic crossing that would benefit from a light. See either my recent traffic lights vid, or my partial cloverleaf vid. Its in both.

It’s to mimic the delay on a real traffic light. Allows cars to clear.

As I explained in that section that would create a massive traffic weave on all sides. Very bad.

I think the light actually helps with weaving conflict imo

The save actually wont open

@@YUMBL That sucks realy liked that city

Yes. In a very recent video.

“Ultimate american” pack ;)

@@YUMBL thanks!