Watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvTkebtgdU0 and holy shit, is all road design in the US like this? That looks absolutely awful, and I don't just mean the "bike lane"
^ That's a 60MPH freeway, typically running at 70-80 (100km/h, 120-ish km/h). In order to get to that gas station (a common task at that intersection), you have to cross 3 lanes of heavy traffic, and often times people are still going freeway speeds by time they get to the rightmost lane.
@joepie91 Oh, it gets worse...
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7838277,-95.481009,990m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
^ That's a 60MPH freeway, typically running at 70-80 (100km/h, 120-ish km/h). In order to get to that gas station (a common task at that intersection), you have to cross 3 lanes of heavy traffic, and often times people are still going freeway speeds by time they get to the rightmost lane.