I can’t edit my post but someone asked to see the roads from google maps so I put it on my profile
same color are the same street names
https://www.reddit.com/u/lurkinglez/s/TXUzmzrFMQ
Why is it a mistake? It seems like a good way to prevent those two streets from being used as through streets?
Honest question - my only city design experience is Cities Skylines.
If these roads are both two ways, aren't they just regular residential streets?
They maybe wanted to slow traffic a bit / deter through traffic by making the roads have more turns vs straight roads, maybe?
But as far as the road type... If they are both just two way roads that happen to terminate into each other I'd still think they are just residential streets.
That’s to reduce cut-throughs. When you have long, straight streets where you don’t have to stop or turn, you tend to get a lot of speeding and people complaining about people “cutting through” the neighborhood.
Engineers/ developers design the street network like this so that you have to slow down to turn every so often, reducing speeding and cut throughs, by making it not the quickest path (ie, making it better and quicker to stay on the main road rather than go through the “quiet” neighborhood)
It’s usually just called a circle
even with all the houses? it feels like all the results with google were just very small and filled with only grass. either way thank you ^_^
That’s called “a land developer realizing they don’t have enough room to fit another lot”
Those are houses??? I thought those were updoots!
Classic American builds ;)
I used to live on “123 22nd Circle, townsville, State USA”
Yeah, I live on a setup almost exactly like this and my street address ends in 'circle'
oh, neither of the parts of the streets end in circle with the address. It’s just either “634 Green Road” or “732 Main Drive”
Probably just local conventions. I don't think there is any official way to do it. Here's what mine looks like: https://i.imgur.com/hUz6MBt.png
second this
This
A compromise, as everyone involved hated it but it was better than the alternatives.
MS Paint Boulevard
A roundabout with extra steps.
Peace among worlds!
You got it 
and extra bushes
Apparently those are meant to be houses.
Allegedly.
Not a one way system though right?
Show us a screenshot of the intersection on google maps
I can’t figure out how to edit the post again to include an image but I posted it to my profile: https://www.reddit.com/u/lurkinglez/s/TXUzmzrFMQ
Square-about
Rectangular-about
When the university can't afford a CAD license
I can’t edit my post but someone asked to see the roads from google maps so I put it on my profile same color are the same street names https://www.reddit.com/u/lurkinglez/s/TXUzmzrFMQ
you might consider asking the planners over at r/urbanplanning/
r/PlanningMemes for relatable humor
Rotary
Im not sure i understand why it needs to have the same street name for 2 different streets?
It seems that there is no turning into a different street; you just drive on into what looks like it should be part of the road you're on but isn't
Future moat to be built by others
Is it one-way?
Nope, two way!
Smh
Some 1970's new idea that shouldn't have happened. A "traffic calming" mistake. A late night drinking though by the newest development engineer?
Why is it a mistake? It seems like a good way to prevent those two streets from being used as through streets? Honest question - my only city design experience is Cities Skylines.
It makes the neighborhood much less walkable which is a major flaw of suburban design and leads to sterile neighborhoods and over-reliance on cars.
Circle Drive?
Its an elliptical rotary i guess
Roundabout?
Cartoonish?
rotary
If these roads are both two ways, aren't they just regular residential streets? They maybe wanted to slow traffic a bit / deter through traffic by making the roads have more turns vs straight roads, maybe? But as far as the road type... If they are both just two way roads that happen to terminate into each other I'd still think they are just residential streets.
I think gyratory is probably the best I can come up with
an epitome of american ingenuity and might
Ring Road?
That’s to reduce cut-throughs. When you have long, straight streets where you don’t have to stop or turn, you tend to get a lot of speeding and people complaining about people “cutting through” the neighborhood. Engineers/ developers design the street network like this so that you have to slow down to turn every so often, reducing speeding and cut throughs, by making it not the quickest path (ie, making it better and quicker to stay on the main road rather than go through the “quiet” neighborhood)
I think a super Roundabout