Photo Assignment 1

Photo from Google Maps, Annotations by Jaime Trohimovich

Roundabout in Delft, the Netherlands. This unit provides a safer option for bike and car traffic to pass through an intersection, while also allowing both to continue through without coming to a complete stop. All traffic is moving in the same direction (counterclockwise), as is shown in the above picture. Notably, within the roundabout there is no distinction between car and bike lanes, and the actual roadway is fairly wide. I suspect that this is because one of the roads connected to the roundabout (the bottom right in this image) has no distinction while the others are a fietsstraat and two advisory bike lanes, going around counterclockwise, meaning that there isn't an easy way to include bike lanes in a way that would make sense. There are also other roundabouts in Delft and the Netherlands in general with dedicated bike lanes.