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This interchange serves two Shopping Centers that flank each side of the US-23 expressway in Brighton, MI. This interchange has three traffic circles to accomodate the entrance ramps, exit ramps, and the two service drives which parallel both the east and west side of the expressway where they all intersect with Lee Road.
The shopping centers also have Traffic Circles within their parking lots, making a total of seven traffic circles in less than a half-mile distance!
This nightmare has been covered by Car & Driver magazine, and there is a You Tube video which takes the viewer on a trip thru the congested confusion. A para-phrase from Car & Driver: "The quantity of tire marks within these traffic circles from panic braking of shoppers, rivals those found in the landing zones of JFK airport runways"
Not only are the local folks unaccustomed to traffic circles, but the solution was the installation of so many large arrow roadway directional signs that drivers can no longer view traffic. The signs comletely block all sight lines!
Certainly keeps the local automotive body shops busy.
Silly people! If you can't seem to navigate the shopping center, go somewhere else! Have you thought about THAT? Shop online! Ask your wife or girlfriend to help you!
Leave the shopping to those of us that are up for the challenge!!!
Speaking of shopping...I don't remember who gave out the website for wow coupons but I am using it constantly! For those of you new to the forum, it is wow-coupons. I'm not a big coupon fan. Seems to take up too much of my time to save 25 cents but this is retail shopping and I'm very happy to save $5 or $10 or 20% off! I just printed a bunch of coupons and am heading out shortly to help the economy!
Silly people! If you can't seem to navigate the shopping center, go somewhere else! Have you thought about THAT? Shop online! Ask your wife or girlfriend to help you!
Leave the shopping to those of us that are up for the challenge!!!
Speaking of shopping...I don't remember who gave out the website for wow coupons but I am using it constantly! For those of you new to the forum, it is wow-coupons. I'm not a big coupon fan. Seems to take up too much of my time to save 25 cents but this is retail shopping and I'm very happy to save $5 or $10 or 20% off! I just printed a bunch of coupons and am heading out shortly to help the economy!
Vicki
YA GOTTA LOVE IT!
Kinda like, "When I want to go to Best Buy, I find a way to go to Best Buy?"
[quote=MI-Roger;6566166]This interchange serves two Shopping Centers that flank each side of the US-23 expressway in Brighton, MI. This interchange has three traffic circles to accomodate the entrance ramps, exit ramps, and the two service drives which parallel both the east and west side of the expressway where they all intersect with Lee Road.
MI-roger....orginally from that area & back visiting last June....my sister & I got such a good laugh when I exited off US-23 south to go to Costco & went around the largest "round-a-bout" (or what ever you call it)---making sure not to hit cars coming all directions & ended up right back onto US-23 south!!
Crossroads, without question -- even if you are able to navigate it just fine -- has a poorly designed road network. It's my local mall and I'm there a lot. I found it confusing at first but have no problem with it now. But everyone, and I mean everyone, I know concludes that it's a poorly designed place re the traffic flow.
Crossroads, without question -- even if you are able to navigate it just fine -- has a poorly designed road network. It's my local mall and I'm there a lot. I found it confusing at first but have no problem with it now. But everyone, and I mean everyone, I know concludes that it's a poorly designed place re the traffic flow.
Well, you know, if more people would just pull into the intersections to make their left turns........
Why do developers always have to build looping, meandering roads everywhere? Why not build things in grids? If Crossroads was built in a grid with a few parking garages, it would use far less land, make traffic flows much simpler and enable people to hit multiple stores on foot rather than having to hop back in the car for each store. Not too mention it would look a lot better than a sea of parking lots. It's as if developers try to gobble up as much land as possible.
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US-23 and Lee Rd in Brighton, MI....
