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It will never work. Everyone in Berkeley instinctively veers left.
1 posted on 03/06/2009 7:49:43 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

People panic and get angry when sodas change the can design.

Roundabout aren’t only cheaper to build and maintain than intersections, they move traffic quicker and eliminate head-on and t-bone collisions.

Whenever you propose improving something this way, people do their Dana Carvey “Grumpy Old Man” for a few weeks, then get used to it.


2 posted on 03/06/2009 7:53:26 AM PST by VirginiaConstitutionalist (The top 1% of income earners earn 17% of the income, but pay 39% of the income taxes. "Fair share?")
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To: SmithL

I avoid the one we have locally. It’s too small and should have been a T stop with a light.


3 posted on 03/06/2009 7:54:14 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: SmithL

Looking at Google Maps, those on/off ramps are screwy. Why did they do that in the first place? They could just push them back so that they meld with the service roads like normal on/off ramps. The other problem is the rail line is open, meaning no bridge. That is a big problem if that line is pretty active.


5 posted on 03/06/2009 8:03:17 AM PST by neb52 (Currently Reading: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams)
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To: SmithL

BOYCOTT BERKELEY


6 posted on 03/06/2009 8:03:58 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Traffic circles are just a bit worse than that idiotic “must turn right to make a left turn” BS.


11 posted on 03/06/2009 8:35:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SmithL

A Large Indy suburb spemt MILLIONS of tax dollars putting in Roundabouts, now they have begun ripping them out at busy intersections because the accident rate has SKYROCKETED....


12 posted on 03/06/2009 8:37:34 AM PST by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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