Highway Feature of the Week: Hagh-Shenaas Square, Tehran, Iran

(This is one of a weekly series of posts entitled “Highway Feature of the Week”. The complete collection of Highway Features of the Week is available on a single page, or via a special RSS feed.)

I’ve come to the conclusion that America doesn’t have enough roundabouts or traffic circles.  They’re beautiful structures and, the way we drive in the States, they provide a practical field test of Darwin’s theories.

Consider, for example, this highway feature in Tehran:

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This is the Hagh-Shenaas Square, a roundabout-based interchange for the recently constructed Navab Highway in Tehran.

It’s a beautiful structure.  Robert Moses would be pleased.