{"id":5501,"date":"2011-10-12T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=5501"},"modified":"2011-10-12T08:04:21","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:04:21","slug":"unconventional-intersections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/unconventional-intersections\/","title":{"rendered":"unconventional intersections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Slate<\/em>, Tom Vanderbilt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2300425\/\">writes about the design of intersections to eliminate left-turns<\/a>, which historically produced such oddities as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhwa.dot.gov\/publications\/research\/safety\/07032\/index.cfm\">Jersey jughandle<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/mdot\/0,1607,7-151-9620_10694-161777--,00.html\">Michigan left<\/a>, as well as more recent innovations like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B5JtZMPTNAY&amp;feature=related\">diverging diamond interchange<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oVI3Ledw7mc\">continuous flow intersection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Slate, Tom Vanderbilt writes about the design of intersections to eliminate left-turns, which historically produced such oddities as the Jersey jughandle and the Michigan left, as well as more recent innovations like the diverging diamond interchange and continuous flow intersection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,137,15],"tags":[271,101,528],"class_list":["post-5501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-engineering","category-infrastructure","tag-civil-engineering","tag-highway","tag-tom-vanderbilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5935,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions\/5935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}