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What is your least favorite intersection in Central Ohio?

Not sure if a roundabout is technically an intersection, but they completely changed the traffic pattern around the courthouse in Newark. Four roundabouts. Been thru a few times, no sweat. Everyone seems to grasp the concept.

They also put a roundabout near OSU Newark. Went thru for the first time today. No [Mark May], these fucking idiots were just treating it as a four way stop. Even waving each other thru. Morons.
Roundabouts speed up traffic so much it is not even funny.

Love them.
 
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Roundabouts shouldn't be all that difficult. They put one in at 161 and Riverside. Not that this is my least favorite intersection but just the other day I was traveling east in the left lane. Car in front of me and car to my right. Car to my right speeds up to cut off the car in front (apparently because they wanted to go left and didn't realize they were in the wrong lane?) Cuts car off at roundabout, tries to go left without going around, realizes he can't, cuts car off again, switches over to right lane in roundabout which results in him going to have to go right or continue straight on 161 and then cuts car off a third time to get back in the left lane so he can go south on Riverside. I can't count how many accidents this guy almost caused while luckily not causing any.
 
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MORPC releases top 100 most dangerous intersections in Central Ohio

The busiest intersection in Central Ohio, according to MORPC stats, is at East Broad Street and Taylor Station Road, near Mount Carmel East, with 76,500 vehicles crossing it daily. Yet there were no fatalities and only one serious injury that occurred there in the past three years among its 123 crashes.

The 10 most dangerous intersections, as identified by MORPC are:
  1. Broad Street/SR 16 at James Road
  2. E Livingston Avenue at Hamilton Road/SR 317
  3. Dublin Granville Road/SR 161 at Maple Canyon Drive
  4. Cleveland Avenue at Morse Road
  5. Broad Street/SR 16 at Lancaster Ave/Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road
  6. Oakland Park Avenue at Westerville Road/SR 3
  7. Morse Road at Northtowne Blvd./Walford Street
  8. Cleveland Avenue at Innis Road
  9. Cleveland Avenue at Dublin Granville Road/SR 161
  10. Hilliard Rome Road at Roberts Road
http://www.columbusmonthly.com/cont...-dangerous-intersections-in-central-ohio.html
 
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Karl and Morse, when it was the busiest intersection in Columbus.

Looking at that list, I used to ride my bicycle through #3, #4, #6, #7, #8, and #9. Never felt the slightest bit unsafe back then.

Of course, we walked to school through snow 6 feet high. Didn't have no shoes [choking sounds]...hey, what the hell...[choking sounds, then silence]. [Younger voice] I couldn't listen to that crap one more time...
 
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MORPC releases top 100 most dangerous intersections in Central Ohio

The busiest intersection in Central Ohio, according to MORPC stats, is at East Broad Street and Taylor Station Road, near Mount Carmel East, with 76,500 vehicles crossing it daily. Yet there were no fatalities and only one serious injury that occurred there in the past three years among its 123 crashes.

The 10 most dangerous intersections, as identified by MORPC are:
  1. Broad Street/SR 16 at James Road
  2. E Livingston Avenue at Hamilton Road/SR 317
  3. Dublin Granville Road/SR 161 at Maple Canyon Drive
  4. Cleveland Avenue at Morse Road
  5. Broad Street/SR 16 at Lancaster Ave/Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road
  6. Oakland Park Avenue at Westerville Road/SR 3
  7. Morse Road at Northtowne Blvd./Walford Street
  8. Cleveland Avenue at Innis Road
  9. Cleveland Avenue at Dublin Granville Road/SR 161
  10. Hilliard Rome Road at Roberts Road
http://www.columbusmonthly.com/cont...-dangerous-intersections-in-central-ohio.html

On any given day its not unusual for me to go through 4, 7 and 8 (as well a the others Steve mentioned, in addition #6 is only incidentally a few hundred feet from Oakland park and cleveland which is about the same thing) Might do 3 and 9 depending on what other crap I have to do.

Now, with the exception of Morse and Northtowne... which for whatever freaking reason is out of synch with all the other lights on that road till at least Karl, and also stupefyingly long for really no apparent reason... all I'm gonna say is, there are a lot of... lets say very novice drivers at a lot of those intersections. Especially once we get to more inclement weather, there's a lack of winter/ice/snow experience. Haven't had much snow the last 2 years either and I expect with the El Nino wrapped up that we'll probably get some this year, it should get interesting.
 
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Got wrapped around that pole outside the police station at Karl and Morse. Guy ran the light in rain and hit us. Our car circled the pole and the front and back bumpers met. I still taste glass and smell the torches when i see a bad accident.
 
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