This is the interchange at Highway 85 and Winchester Blvd. (The red roofs are Netflix and the Aventino apartment complex.) It's a half-interchange, only connecting with traffic on 85 to or from the north (west). But note the unusual configuration of the interchange: why all that empty space between the ramps and the freeway?
It's because the interchange was designed as a folded diamond:
But the Town of Los Gatos didn't want extra traffic on Winchester, so they only allowed half the interchange to be built. The result is unsurprising: traffic to or from 85 on the south (east) has to get to Winchester via Highway 17 and Lark Avenue a half-mile to the south.
Lark would be a busy street without this, but with the extra Winchester/85 traffic it gets some real traffic jams. So instead of the bit of extra traffic on Winchester, there's a big mess on Lark.
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This is the interchange at Highway 85 and Winchester Blvd. (The red roofs are Netflix and the Aventino apartment complex.) It's a half-interchange, only connecting with traffic on 85 to or from the north (west). But note the unusual configuration of the interchange: why all that empty space between the ramps and the freeway?
It's because the interchange was designed as a folded diamond:
http://www.smartmotorist.com/images/driving_guideline/folded...
http://www.smartmotorist.com/driving-guideline/driving-on-ex...
But the Town of Los Gatos didn't want extra traffic on Winchester, so they only allowed half the interchange to be built. The result is unsurprising: traffic to or from 85 on the south (east) has to get to Winchester via Highway 17 and Lark Avenue a half-mile to the south.
Lark would be a busy street without this, but with the extra Winchester/85 traffic it gets some real traffic jams. So instead of the bit of extra traffic on Winchester, there's a big mess on Lark.