Along the innovative lines of installing roundabouts in Loveland 10 years ago to solve traffic congestion, city engineers are considering another out-of-the-ordinary solution, the Fort Collins Coloradoan reports.

It’s called a continuous flow intersection, or CFI, which the city may build at Madison Avenue and Eisenhower Boulevard next summer to quicken the pace of left-turning vehicles and east-west traffic.

A CFI eliminates left-turn arrows by moving left-turning vehicles to the left side of the road – on the other side of oncoming traffic – about 300 feet before the intersection.

This happens with an additional stoplight before the intersection, which ushers the left-turning cars over to the far side of the road when oncoming traffic waits for the red light at the intersection.

When the lights turn green for both directions of traffic, the left-turning vehicles go with everyone else, eliminating a wait-time for through traffic.

Included in the scheme are merge lanes for right-turning vehicles that would sandwich in the left-turn lanes with oncoming traffic.

Confused? There’s a video of the proposed traffic flow at the city of Loveland Web site, www.ci.loveland.co.us.

Read the entire article at the Coloradoan.