FUNCTIONAL JUNCTIONS

There is a false notion that it is impossible to design roads that would permit everyone in a large city, to drive to work in a car. By reducing the height of flyovers and underpasses to give priority to car height vehicles the sewers can be avoided and these FUNCTIONAL JUNCTIONS can be built at one hundredth of the cost of standard Ministry of Transport intersections. They can usually be fitted into the existing road pattern and therefore do not require extra land. Since no two cars need ever pass at right angles, red traffic lights can become history. This will save lives and injury and make for cheaper insurance. By tripling the flow, and tripling the speed, everyone should be able to use their car whenever they want. See Chapter No. 3 FUNCTIONAL JUNCTIONS or car height bridges. Yes you heard right at 100th of the cost. In the FUNCTIONAL JUNCTION scheme the under road goes one metre down which is above the sewer and therefore can drain into the sewer while the cross road only has to rise one metre. You can divert the gas, the electricity, the water, the phones but not the gravity draining sewer. Ministry of Transport underpasses have to go under the sewer, which means approx. 10m underground; this lengthens the ramp by 10 times, compared with my 1m and this tends to make the down ramp foul another sewer. M.O.T. bridges, on the other hand, have to climb well above the roofs of double decker buses. The ramps are so long that they tend to cut off the next cross road unless the road is kept up for miles on expensive columns, destroying the street architecturally, and cowering the pedestrians.