For the information given in Problem 7-22, determine the sight distance required by the minor-road vehicle to safely complete a right turn onto the major road.

What will be an ideal response?


Use Equation 7.5



From Table 7.8, tg = (9.5 – 1.0) = 8.5 sec for a single-unit truck. No adjustment

can be made for grade on the minor road since that information is not provided.



For practical purposes, this may be rounded to 780 ft.

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