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The first cloverleaf interchange patented in the US was by Arthur Hale, a civil engineer in Maryland, on February 29, 1916. [3] [4]A modified cloverleaf, with the adjacent ramps joined into a single two-way road, was planned in 1927 for the interchange between Lake Shore Drive and Irving Park Road in Chicago, Illinois, but a diamond interchange was built instead.
A partial cloverleaf interchange or parclo is a modification of a cloverleaf interchange. The design has been well received, and has since become one of the most popular freeway -to- arterial interchange designs in North America.
A cloverleaf interchange is a four-legged junction where left turns across opposing traffic are handled by non-directional loop ramps. [23] It is named for its appearance from above, which resembles a four-leaf clover. [21] A cloverleaf is the minimum interchange required for a four-legged system interchange.
The cloverleaf interchange between US 131, M-6 and 68th Street in Cutlerville, Michigan, United States, shows many of the features of controlled-access highways: entry and exit ramps, median strips for opposing traffic, no at-grade intersections and no direct access to properties.
A two-level interchange in which turns are handled by eight total ramp or slip roads, four of which form loops that give the interchange the shape of a cloverleaf from the air. Each ramp allows traffic from one direction of a roadway to access only one direction of the crossroad: e.g. from northbound to eastbound while a separate ramp connects ...
The cloverleaf configuration was harrowing for drivers, The Charlotte Observer reported in 2012 when work was about to begin on bridges and roads near the planned new interchange.
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