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Don't Be So Square - Why American Drivers should learn to love the Roundabout
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| July 20, 2009
| Tom Vanderbilt
Posted on 07/21/2009 6:58:18 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
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I agree with the author; we need many, many more roundabouts.
To: Arec Barrwin
I have a truck. I drive right across the grass in the middle.
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:59:12 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: Arec Barrwin
I hate it when people don’t follow the order at 4 way stop signs. Drives me insane.
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posted on
07/21/2009 6:59:16 PM PDT
by
exist
To: Arec Barrwin
Roundabout? Are you referring to a Traffic Circle?
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:00:53 PM PDT
by
Signalman
To: Arec Barrwin
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:01:51 PM PDT
by
GnL
To: Arec Barrwin
I love them. Single lane only though. If it’s multi lane, use a stop light.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:02:03 PM PDT
by
listenhillary
(90% of our problems could be resolved with a government 10% of the size it is now.)
To: Bobkk47
“Another problem is that the word roundabout brings up for many people an image of an old “traffic circle” or, in the Northeast, a “rotary” intersection. But these are not necessarily roundabouts, just as the Arc de Triomphe is not a roundabout, nor is New York City’s Columbus Circle (which, for the record, is acknowledged as the world’s first “rotary system” intersection).
The two are fundamentally different beasts. You are in a modern roundabout if it is the entering driver who must yield to traffic already circling. You are NOT in a modern roundabout if you are expected to yield to entering drivers or if you encounter traffic lights or stop signs.”
To: Arec Barrwin
I’d love to kick the **** out of the moron who designed the one on the north end of Payson, Arizona.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:03:33 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(WWTHD - What Would The Hondurans Do?)
To: Arec Barrwin
For some reason drivers in Latin American and Europe can figure out the roundabout concept but American drivers cannot.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:03:59 PM PDT
by
trumandogz
(The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
To: Arec Barrwin
We have a number of them in Dublin, Ohio - a suburb of Columbus. I like them, and am pretty sure they have reduced travel time AND accidents at a few intersections.
The smaller ones may be a bit of a challenge for larger trucks, though.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:04:13 PM PDT
by
PackerBoy
(Just my opinion ....)
To: Bobkk47
>Roundabout?
"In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky
And they stand there!"
To: Arec Barrwin
Gotta hand it to Michigan. Leave it to the “Motor City”. We have had a boatload of roundabouts constructed here in Oakland County over the last couple of years. I love ‘em. Best compromise ever invented for intersections.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:05:33 PM PDT
by
LiberConservative
(I think Liberals are idiots and I VOTE!)
To: Arec Barrwin
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:05:41 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Arec Barrwin
There’s quite a few here in Golden, Colorado. They’re pretty sweet. Seen ‘em first in UAE, though.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:06:00 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
To: Arec Barrwin
i learned to drive roundabouts overseas, and wish we used them more here. but drivers herw could use more training.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:06:02 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - murdered by illegitimate government)
To: exist
I hate 4 way stops just because of how dangerous they are, I have nearly been hit a couple of times because people don’t wait their turn. I however hate roundabouts as they can be even more dangerous.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:06:15 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: exist
You just hit one of my hot buttons, especially people who stop before you do, and it is clearly their turn to go, and then motion you across with their hand when it is their time to go. "DON'T TELL ME HOW TO &*()ING DRIVE, YOU MORON!" is usually what is heard out of my car screaming at them.
O.k., I'll lay off the coffee a while. You would think it is people who go before their turn at a 4-way stop that aggravates me the most, but it is these people who really grate at me.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:06:15 PM PDT
by
hawkeye101
(The problem with socialism and liberalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Arec Barrwin
A city next to where I live has had one of those things forever. We hicks call it a circle.
A circle is a terrible idea. The spokes come up quite fast, and it’s easy to miss where you want to go and have to ride around again. Each trip around contributes to clogging traffic on the spokes. Ideally, if you’re going more than 1/2 way around, you should move to the inner lane, then migrate out as you approach your destination. You really want Americans to figure that out?
My mother got in a crash one time at the circle, and from then on would go miles out of her way to avoid the darn thing.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:06:33 PM PDT
by
brownsfan
(The public schools and the SRM, they are killing us.)
To: Arec Barrwin
It's a "traffic calming" device devised by the new urbanists and endorsed by the U.N. in its Agenda 21.
Save them for Europe, we don't need any U.N. crap over here. They need to move their congregation elsewhere also.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:06:44 PM PDT
by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: theFIRMbss
And that tune plays in my head every time I drive through one. :)
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:06:57 PM PDT
by
LiberConservative
(I think Liberals are idiots and I VOTE!)
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