I like that there is already an idiot on the top-left road who passed the whole trafficjam on the wrong side of the road (because “I am special”) and is now also stuck there because there was a reason for everybody to not move foreward
Kinda looks like a cop to me
Might be. I don’t remember seeing any police when I was in Norway, but the internet-pictures kindof match.
Red ring of death.
I still get nightmares from thinking that placing a nice roundabout in Cities Skylines will improve my traffic only to come back later to see a huge traffic jam because the cars are blocking each other.
Honestly I’ve never heard about a roundabout traffic jam before seeing the picture of the Norwegian four-way bus lock a couple of days ago, followed by this example right here.
I think Cities Skylines is either badly programmed or propaganda for Big Intersection.
Yes
Basegame CS’s traffic system is notably bad - if you wanted anything realistic you needed mods to change it. No clue how CS2’s plays, but I can’t imagine it’d be much better.
This is one of the most complex levels
As soon as I saw the image this is exactly what I started doing in my head.
That is what, six years old?
happened again
Factorio players had this solved forever ago
No they don’t. They still have nightmare of item contamination.
Should have used filters…
Usa a semaphore.
Tbf, they also have the arthropod invasion sorted out.
And now pentapods too
I’m sorry, but this looked super easy to un fuck. The bottom driver just had to pull forward a bit and to the right, enough for the guy on the right to get through. I don’t think they were “stuck” so much as this was a cool photo with a click baity title.
It is, but none of the four bus drivers have all of the information. You will also need two or three cops or at least guys in fluorescent vests to physically block traffic from entering the circle and or bitch-slap selfish asshats as necessary until the Gordian knot of buses is untied, otherwise said selfish asshats will try to barge into the intersection the second the first bus moves and start everything all over again.
They were stuck for 10 minutes and needed to be directed from the outside. It’s maybe not that long, but they struggled with figuring it out. Source (in Norwegian, this happened in Oslo): https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/3pkoP9/busser-fast-paa-alexander-kiellands-plass-i-oslo
Guy that went and directed them said they were stuck for a total of 3 minutes.
It took him 3 minutes to direct them start to finish, but they were stuck for total of 10 minutes. He didn’t start directing them the second they were stuck.
there are probably cars there facing the bottom bus, no? it’s the enter lane, not an exit lane
Also, fewer cars will help.
No, it’s clearly the fault of the buses. So defunding public transport it is!
- every politician probably
I’m very curious about who screwed up first
I think it was a combined, synchronized effort
Apes together stuck.
In my opinion the stupid bus that entered the round about when already 3 buses where in there.
I mean get that there was space, but man you could have waited 20 seconds and everything would have been fine.
It’s a deadlock situation and can arise without any screw ups. Imagine the buses being 5x as long and all reach the intersection at the same time as an example. All have space to enter the roundabout but they’ll reach the same situation as in the picture.
To fix this people uses signals and can be done by having the buses follow “Only 1 or 2 articulated (double) buses are allowed into the roundabout at a time”. A rule like that might be required if you have a lot of articulated buses. The risk of this happening depends on how many ways you can enter a roundabout no a bus like that, how long the buses are, how frequently they run and how big the roundabout is.
Bus on left hand side of screen sealed the deal, but it was a concerted effort of fuckery
Each one of them screwed up independently. It takes a concerted effort to reach this situation.
I don’t know what’s going on in this picture, but, whatever it is, being accidental is last on my list of possible explanations
1 of 2. Either the car drivers going on the inside of the busses, hindering them enough space to make the turns, or the bus drivers allowing it to happen.
What’s the context on this?
Buses stuck
o.o"
bus #1 needs to move so bus #2 can move
bus #2 needs to move so bus #3 can move
bus #3 needs to move so bus #4 can move
bus #4 needs to move so bus #1 can movei n f i n i t e l o o p
It we’re forcing a programming analogy, I’d go with deadlock over loop.
Spinlock even
I dread what “answer” this may bring but…why?
To clarify: this is not intentional art. This is an engineering edge case turned real by bad luck.
Normally 3 buses can use around-about without issue, and there’s plenty of 4 bus patterns that could use the intersection without creating a knot, so bus drivers probably aclimate to having another bus or two in the loop, but this just happened to have the bad luck needed to create the knot.
(And OP is calling it an art installation tongue in cheek because it’s not going anywhere for a while)
Thank you for clarifying. People are so silly.
Step bus, what are you doing!??
This is what my trains in satisfactory do :,)
It does not look like any bus screwed up to me. It looks scary ya I agree, but I’m sure watching this play out was very mundane and efficient.
When your factorio base logistics collapse and you have to manually unfuck the train system
Solution: goatse roundabout
Do not enter the intersection unless the exit is clear.
If all four arrived and entered at the exact same time, the exit might have been clear for all four.
Possibly, but I think they all thought they could fit through.
It’s also the second time it’s happened in this roundabout in a few months lol
Maybe they could simply délay one of them by a minute to prevent them arriving at the same time, just change the time planning
Jacques Tati did it better
