They’re in the process of untangling it, though! if only they can convince the white car on the rightmost lane coming fromt he upper side of the picture to turn some 30° right, one of the directions will be able to move. Once all cars from that side of the city have passed the intersection, the ones coming from the lower right of the image can go. And once all of them have gone, maybe in a day or two, it’s the turn for the truck carrying liquid concrete to move onwards!
Especially if you have that mod that disables traffic despawning, along with that realistic building population mod. Build one skyscraper without having a robust public transit system already in place, and it’ll bring your city to its knees.
It’s crazy to me that none of the people in the right lane of traffic are just escaping off to the right. Everyone’s just sitting.
Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.
I do think of that mentality “But I don’t want to go right, I want to go straight, I’m not turning, everyone needs to get out of my way so I can go straight, I’m waiting here until that happens” as an American thing, but I guess we don’t have a monopoly on it.
“But it’s not my favorite way! I can’t go that way!”
I’ll take exits to who knows where to avoid traffic even if sitting in it is technically faster. Every time the highway gets shut down for a snow-related accident, my adventure gene lights up and we go exploring the back country. It’s never fun, but it beats sitting in traffic, and it’s never as bad as the time I got stuck on the highway in a blizzard and was stuck at 15mph for a normally 2-hour-70-mph drive that took me some 5-7 hrs to complete… the next morning I took a perfect imprint of my license plate off the ice covering my car. Kept that in my freezer in a box for a couple years until sublimation made it unreadable.
Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.
For some reason this inspired me to evil.
I propose that we tax inattentive drivers. How? By adding easily avoidable large tolls along major roadways.
Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. You’re driving along a stretch of long empty country road. Over the course of several miles, all sorts of signs, lights, and warnings announce that the right lane, and only the right lane, will be subject to a $100 toll. And a toll reader is set up to do just that. If you drive through the left lane, no toll. If you drive through the right lane, $100. Again, you provide plenty of warning. You would have to be half asleep, drunk, completely distracted, or drugged out of your mind to miss the signs. Hell, we’ll post it in all sorts of languages even.
Now, if you’re worried about a potential traffic bottleneck forming…no worries! We can hook the tolls up to a traffic counter, and the tolls are only active when traffic counts are very low. So only active during low levels of sparse traffic. And we could make all the signs electronic, so they all turn off when the tolls are inactive.
At some point, it’s literally that. You have to kick everyone out of their cars and start loading the cars up on wheel dollies, then slide them out sideways. Or bring in a forklift to do the same.
You know at some point the cars that can turn right will and the cars to their left will be able to turn right and so on. Seems like this will eventually unfuck itself.
Oh buddy, traffic laws in Brazil are light suggestions not really enforced. Red lights? Just drive through, don’t stop. Roundabout? Just drive straight through they’re just painted circles on the road, silly. One way street? Who’s gonna stop me? Roads usually flow like you see in SE Asia where its like a flowing stream of motorcycles, except there’s a lot more VW Gol’s and Fiat Uno’s. Even the Civil and Military police don’t give a shit and drive like everyone else. Just don’t get caught speeding on a speed camera or you will get a ticket for going .1 KPH over the limit.
Check out the whole line of cars that could be getting through right-to-left, but there are two jerkwads who insist on not moving their car a foot or two apart to open up the little space and let them proceed.
Turns out the real America was in the hearts of the world this entire time
There are modern roundabouts and then there are rotary intersections. Modern roundabouts have traffic entering the circle yield to traffic already within it, while rotary intersections have traffic within the circle yield to traffic entering. That makes rotaries, but not modern roundabouts, susceptible to locking up like this.
Sao Paulo: AMATEURS
Damn, like 100 cars sharing a single IQ point.
Are they still there to this day?
Hey, I’ve played this one
They’re in the process of untangling it, though! if only they can convince the white car on the rightmost lane coming fromt he upper side of the picture to turn some 30° right, one of the directions will be able to move. Once all cars from that side of the city have passed the intersection, the ones coming from the lower right of the image can go. And once all of them have gone, maybe in a day or two, it’s the turn for the truck carrying liquid concrete to move onwards!
So like Cities Skylines but for real.
Especially if you have that mod that disables traffic despawning, along with that realistic building population mod. Build one skyscraper without having a robust public transit system already in place, and it’ll bring your city to its knees.
It’s crazy to me that none of the people in the right lane of traffic are just escaping off to the right. Everyone’s just sitting.
Maybe there was a process of natural selection, where all the people sensible enough who could get out got out, and it was 100% stubborn people remaining by the time the picture was taken.
I do think of that mentality “But I don’t want to go right, I want to go straight, I’m not turning, everyone needs to get out of my way so I can go straight, I’m waiting here until that happens” as an American thing, but I guess we don’t have a monopoly on it.
The picture is of American drivers, though.
“But it’s not my favorite way! I can’t go that way!”
I’ll take exits to who knows where to avoid traffic even if sitting in it is technically faster. Every time the highway gets shut down for a snow-related accident, my adventure gene lights up and we go exploring the back country. It’s never fun, but it beats sitting in traffic, and it’s never as bad as the time I got stuck on the highway in a blizzard and was stuck at 15mph for a normally 2-hour-70-mph drive that took me some 5-7 hrs to complete… the next morning I took a perfect imprint of my license plate off the ice covering my car. Kept that in my freezer in a box for a couple years until sublimation made it unreadable.
They had to pose for the picture of course
That too was bothering me a lot.
For some reason this inspired me to evil.
I propose that we tax inattentive drivers. How? By adding easily avoidable large tolls along major roadways.
Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. You’re driving along a stretch of long empty country road. Over the course of several miles, all sorts of signs, lights, and warnings announce that the right lane, and only the right lane, will be subject to a $100 toll. And a toll reader is set up to do just that. If you drive through the left lane, no toll. If you drive through the right lane, $100. Again, you provide plenty of warning. You would have to be half asleep, drunk, completely distracted, or drugged out of your mind to miss the signs. Hell, we’ll post it in all sorts of languages even.
Now, if you’re worried about a potential traffic bottleneck forming…no worries! We can hook the tolls up to a traffic counter, and the tolls are only active when traffic counts are very low. So only active during low levels of sparse traffic. And we could make all the signs electronic, so they all turn off when the tolls are inactive.
I propose we toll inattentive drivers.
Wow, it’s like a giant sliding block puzzle.
The white car near the top-left crosswalk should drive forward and to the right. This unclogs a path for the cars from top-right.
At some point, it’s literally that. You have to kick everyone out of their cars and start loading the cars up on wheel dollies, then slide them out sideways. Or bring in a forklift to do the same.
You know at some point the cars that can turn right will and the cars to their left will be able to turn right and so on. Seems like this will eventually unfuck itself.
But then the cars that turn will be giving in!?! They will be late for the thing they’re doing!
Plus, turning right isn’t what THEY want to do! Everyone else should turn right, clearly.
If I’d been sitting there for 15 min I’d rather be moving than sitting stuck any day. Eventually I’d be able to backtrack to where I needed to go.
Do they not have a “don’t block the box” type of law there? Being within the intersection like that seems crazy to me
Seems they do. That’s what the yellow markings on the road are for.
Sometimes you just need to be the reason for the safety meeting
Oh buddy, traffic laws in Brazil are light suggestions not really enforced. Red lights? Just drive through, don’t stop. Roundabout? Just drive straight through they’re just painted circles on the road, silly. One way street? Who’s gonna stop me? Roads usually flow like you see in SE Asia where its like a flowing stream of motorcycles, except there’s a lot more VW Gol’s and Fiat Uno’s. Even the Civil and Military police don’t give a shit and drive like everyone else. Just don’t get caught speeding on a speed camera or you will get a ticket for going .1 KPH over the limit.
Check out the whole line of cars that could be getting through right-to-left, but there are two jerkwads who insist on not moving their car a foot or two apart to open up the little space and let them proceed.
Turns out the real America was in the hearts of the world this entire time
Well, still on the American continent at least.
There are modern roundabouts and then there are rotary intersections. Modern roundabouts have traffic entering the circle yield to traffic already within it, while rotary intersections have traffic within the circle yield to traffic entering. That makes rotaries, but not modern roundabouts, susceptible to locking up like this.
Oh man! It’s total gridlock.