[OSM-newbies] Overkill or Not?

[Randy Thomson]

James Ewen wrote:

> 2009/10/4 Iván Sánchez Ortega
> <ivan at sanchezortega.es>:
> 
> > Oh, you call that overkill?
> 
> What about this?
> 
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.4360945224762&lon=-113.4887266159
> 06&zoom=15
> 
> You can't see all of them in the OSM map, but there are 27 bridges in
> this intersection, when it could have been done with 2. NB traffic on
> highway 2 has to move to the high speed lanes on the left side of the
> motorway to take the exit ramp, which then uses a fly-over bridge to
> get the traffic back to the right hand side of the roadway where it
> should have been for a proper exit ramp. After the fly over, you have
> to make 5 separate lane changes to the left in order to get onto the
> EB through lanes, as the right hand lane keeps ending as new lanes are
> added on the left.
> 
> Traffic entering the SB motorway merges into existing traffic from the
> left, rather than the right... here through traffic has to merge left
> into entering traffic across 4 lanes to get out of lanes that are
> ending. There is not a single lane that you can travel in SB through
> this intersection from start to finish. You have to make lane changes
> to be able to get through it, and the SB roadway is 3 lanes wide.
> 
> Some days you just want to take the traffic planners out and shoot
> them!
> 
> James
> VE6SRV

Did you miss a link, or is it not yet built? Easbound to Northbound.
Sat. shows construction there.

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