Sun comes up.
Human wake up. Many human. same time.
Human go school/work.Same time.
Many human, same place.
Bus slow, human use car.
Many human, many car.
Road small…
Remarkable_War_9952 on
It’s a place where speed limit changes from 100 to 80, and a place where cameras are often seen. So logically people slow down there and create a small congestion.
zeden1337 on
It’s probably because:
1. There is frequently police either behind the sign just after the ramp, catching people still going 100+ in the 80 zone, or further down on the straight. (This knowledge is ingrained into locals – been this way since the flyovers got constructed).
2. Regardless of police, people still drop their speed due to the change in speed limit.
3. People frequently drop their speed well below the speed limit, and often suddenly.
4. As drivers don’t keep enough distance between them, sudden deceleration of the cars ahead gets amplified and causes a traffic wave, also called a phantom traffic jam.
How to fix:
1. Convince all drivers to maintain a safe distance to the car ahead. This allows cars to slow down more gradually preventing traffic waves.
2. Or redesign the road layout to avoid the compounding effect of a change in speed limit, on an downhill offramp right before a bend with common police presence.
UdiVahn on
This direction during the sunset hours (~6:30pm) is extremely hard to look in front of you because of sun, it hurts every time! Can’t say much of the rest of the day.
RidersSyndicate on
Strictly speaking that is not a highway. The main problem comes from the fact that the exits and entry ramps, alongside the roundabouts were designed using data from the 80s. By the time they were built they were outdated or even plain wrong. E.g. there are no exits for each roundabout which means that people exit, to go straight on the first roundabout to the next. There should have been different exits for each roundabout.
Add to this the fact that Limassol used to lie exclusively on one side of the road (towards the sea) and now the road is basically dissecting the city and you have ridiculous traffic with cars going in all directions on roundabouts which then in turn creates traffic on the main road. I guess the “epxerts” were absent the day dedicated exit ramps were taught in their university, because in every new road they design more and more roundabouts.
Trick-Ad-7158 on
Let’s put all the people in buses to fix this issue. ooh wait I forgot that this is Cyprus….
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Because Cypriots can’t drive
Sun comes up.
Human wake up. Many human. same time.
Human go school/work.Same time.
Many human, same place.
Bus slow, human use car.
Many human, many car.
Road small…
It’s a place where speed limit changes from 100 to 80, and a place where cameras are often seen. So logically people slow down there and create a small congestion.
It’s probably because:
1. There is frequently police either behind the sign just after the ramp, catching people still going 100+ in the 80 zone, or further down on the straight. (This knowledge is ingrained into locals – been this way since the flyovers got constructed).
2. Regardless of police, people still drop their speed due to the change in speed limit.
3. People frequently drop their speed well below the speed limit, and often suddenly.
4. As drivers don’t keep enough distance between them, sudden deceleration of the cars ahead gets amplified and causes a traffic wave, also called a phantom traffic jam.
How to fix:
1. Convince all drivers to maintain a safe distance to the car ahead. This allows cars to slow down more gradually preventing traffic waves.
2. Or redesign the road layout to avoid the compounding effect of a change in speed limit, on an downhill offramp right before a bend with common police presence.
This direction during the sunset hours (~6:30pm) is extremely hard to look in front of you because of sun, it hurts every time! Can’t say much of the rest of the day.
Strictly speaking that is not a highway. The main problem comes from the fact that the exits and entry ramps, alongside the roundabouts were designed using data from the 80s. By the time they were built they were outdated or even plain wrong. E.g. there are no exits for each roundabout which means that people exit, to go straight on the first roundabout to the next. There should have been different exits for each roundabout.
Add to this the fact that Limassol used to lie exclusively on one side of the road (towards the sea) and now the road is basically dissecting the city and you have ridiculous traffic with cars going in all directions on roundabouts which then in turn creates traffic on the main road. I guess the “epxerts” were absent the day dedicated exit ramps were taught in their university, because in every new road they design more and more roundabouts.
Let’s put all the people in buses to fix this issue. ooh wait I forgot that this is Cyprus….