TS: Four-Leaf Clovers vs. Cloverleaf Interchanges (Also, cloverleafs -- either kind -- classic or dud?)

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I choose cloverleaf interchanges, as the novelty of four-leaf clovers died when I was eight. Both forms of cloverleafs are classic (despite the pain Ned received having to pound the prototype of that shape during the recording of Pi), but bigger cloverleafs -- in regard to interchanges -- are more classic than smaller/constricted ones (for safety reasons). Someday, probably somewhere in Texas, they'll build the biggest cloverleaf interchange ever.

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

The cloverleaf where Alligator Alley enters Fort Lauderdale from the west and dog-legs south is extremely beautiful.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 28 August 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Haven't seen that one, but I've never been farther south in this state than St. Petersburg.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Cloverleaf interchanges cause a lot of traffic weaving, as one of the joining slips comes before one of the leaving slips. Partially-unrolled cloverleafs (such as the M6/M62 interchange near Warrington) are better.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Haven't seen that one, but I've never been farther south in this state than St. Petersburg.
You should make it your new vacation destination.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, parclos (partial cloverleafs) are nifty. xpost

When they clean up from Katrina, Beth, I might.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

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