Method of controlling pedestrian and vehicular traffic flow

A method of controlling vehicle and pedestrian traffic comprising the steps of:

• (a) directing vehicular traffic on a first, one-way traffic direction endless loop of roadway;
• (b) directing vehicular traffic on a second one-way direction endless loop of roadway, opposite in direction to the direction of traffic on said first endless loop, said second endless loop fully surrounding, without intersecting, said first endless loop;
• (c) directing vehicular traffic to selectively transfer between said first and said second endless loops of roadway by travelling on a loop to loop interconnecting roadway, a first section of said loop to loop interconnecting roadway having one-way vehicular traffic flow from said first endless loop of roadway to said second endless loop of roadway and a second section of said loop to loop interconnecting roadway having one-way vehicular traffic flow from said second endless loop of roadway to said first endless loop of roadway;
• (d) alternatingly, stopping and allowing travel of said vehicular traffic, at timed intervals, by a traffic signal means which directs said vehicular traffic to stop upstream of an intersection on either of said first or said second endless loops of roadway and said loop to loop interconnecting roadway or to travel through said intersection;
• and directing pedestrians to cross said roadways at crosswalks through which no vehicular traffic is travelling;
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• (e) directing said pedestrians to cross in front of stopped vehicular traffic on either said first or said second endless loops of roadways and, at the same time, in front of yet upstream of vehicular traffic turning from said loop to loop interconnecting roadway onto either said first or said second endless loop of roadway.

A method of controlling vehicular and pedestrian traffic at an intersection formed by two crossing roadways, comprising,

• (a) permitting only one-way flow of vehicular traffic toward said intersection on both of said roadways;
• (b) permitting, by means of a traffic signal at said intersection in a first condition thereof, the vehicular traffic on a first of said roadways to either:
• (i) enter said intersection and continue on said first roadway, or
• (ii) enter said intersection and turn onto said other roadway in the one-way direction thereof;
• (c) stopping, at the intersection, all vehicular traffic on said other roadway when said traffic signal is in said first condition thereof;
• (d) permitting, when said traffic signal is in a second condition thereof, the vehicular traffic on said other roadway to enter said intersection and turn onto said first roadway in the one-way direction thereof, and
• (e) stopping, at the intersection, all vehicular traffic on said first roadway when said traffic signal is in said second condition thereof, whereby when said traffic signal is in its first condition, pedestrian traffic may cross said stopped vehicular traffic on said other roadway;
• and when said traffic signal is in its second condition, pedestrian traffic may cross said first and said other roadway.