Yup, you read it right.

Apparently, that’s the solution they came up with in Kansas to solve their problems with the traffic situation.

Their solution was to have motorists drive on the left side of the road. Traffic jams and vehicular accidents became so rampant in Kansas City that traffic engineers didn’t have any choice but to come upwith this ‘’crisscrossing lanes'’ strategy, also called the ‘’diverging diamond'’ design.

Motorists will reach a traffic signal where they will guided to the opposite side of the road and into the oncoming lane. The lane will then be divided by a concrete median with glare screens to minimize the potential fear and disorientation these motorists will probably have upon the sight of speeding oncoming cars.

Yup, and it gets more confusing.

After 600 to 700 feet, motorists will reach another traffic light which will return them to the right side of the road.

Planners said they modeled their ‘’diverging diamond'’ design after one in use in the French city of Versailles, where motorists drive on the right. The cost will be $6 million, or about half the $11 million that competing ideas were projected to cost. The project is to be started and finished in 2007.

Ramps before the first and second lights will allow motorists to enter I-435. The design spares motorists from having to turn left in front of oncoming traffic to get onto the highway. - ABC News

‘’When we first heard about it from one of our peers, of course we were skeptical,'’ said Josh Scott, a transportation planner who worked on the design.

‘’But not only was it feasible, but it actually worked better from all of the other alternatives,'’ he added.

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