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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
Don't Be So Square Why American drivers should learn to love the roundabout.
By Tom Vanderbilt Posted Monday, July 20, 2009, at 6:54 AM ET
Here is a narrative that has been playing out over the last several years in any number of American towns: Traffic engineers notice that a particular intersection has a crash problem or is moving traffic inefficiently. After a period of study, the engineers propose a roundabout.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: road; roundabout; traffic
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To: Arec Barrwin
Roundabouts = control
No thanks. You guys can drink the koolaid, but I hate 'em. Give me good old traffic signals and stop signs anyday.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:07:00 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
To: trumandogz
only 3 items necessary, the horn, the accelerator and one hand free to gesture with. backing down or braking is not allowed.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:07:23 PM PDT
by
NY Attitude
(Make love not war but be prepared for either.)
To: Arec Barrwin
those are ridiculous things.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:08:01 PM PDT
by
GeronL
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To: hawkeye101
How about the idiots who don’t go straight through when the car across from them is going straight through? Or those who try to follow the car in front of them?
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:08:44 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: Arec Barrwin
If I remember correctly in Great Britain the drivers entering the roundabout yield, in France you yield to the entering drivers. I had fun in England going left entering the roundabouts.
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Awesome. I love the live version of this song from Yessongs.
Have you seen the acoustic version of Long Distance Runaround from the Relayer tour? Brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7NlyzpGcnQ
I believe I’m one of the few under the age of 35 who loves Yes...lol
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:09:13 PM PDT
by
ItsOurTimeNow
("Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces Free Men here...not slaves.")
To: Arec Barrwin
Hell no, they are a pile of crap!!!!
Keep the foreign crap foreign!
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:10:42 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: Arec Barrwin
Roundabouts are the reason that Europeans and Koreans are such bad drivers, IMO!
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:11:01 PM PDT
by
Tamar1973
(http://koreanforniancooking.blogspot.com/)
To: Arec Barrwin
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:11:23 PM PDT
by
Jemian
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To: Arec Barrwin
OK....I drove a bunch in France and they have roundabouts everywhere. They keep traffic moving much better. I know it is France but it isn’t such a horrible place. I found the same thing in Belgium.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:11:54 PM PDT
by
shankbear
(Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
To: elkfersupper
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:12:32 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR...Monthly Donors Wanted...I Upped My Monthly. Now, Up Yours.)
To: Arec Barrwin
Traffic engineers in Europe have studies that show safety is increased when striping and traffic control signs are removed. They claim that cars slow down
and it makes it safer for bicycles and pedestrians.
A small town in Oregon has started to implement this on some narrow streets. I hate to admit it but it does help.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:12:36 PM PDT
by
Klondike
To: LiberConservative
I’ve only been through the craziness up in the Brighton area off 23. That SPUI is just nuts.
I’d live with roundabouts if they’d get rid of the Michigan Left. The one where you can wait through four traffic lights just to make a left turn.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:14:01 PM PDT
by
Kieri
(The Conservatrarian)
To: shankbear
Roundabouts make the lives of anyone who lives in New Jersey a LIVING HELL. There is a reason why the state is FINALLY phasing them out!
NO TO TRAFFIC CIRCLES!!!
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:14:14 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Remember our Korean War Veterans)
To: Klondike
I will say that is true, on country roads that have no markings or signs, I go 45 at most even though if the same road has markings I would go 60
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:14:35 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: Arec Barrwin
I love traffic circles, they make sense to me. Much better than intersections with 3 lanes in each direction, 2 straight ahead and a left turn. After Hurricane Ike and for 2 weeks when we had no electricity driving anywhere was a nightmare because of the stop and go traffic at the intersections. Imagine 12 lanes of traffic each having to wait until it was their turn to proceeded.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:15:00 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:15:31 PM PDT
by
Balding_Eagle
(Overproduction, one of the top five worries for the American farmer.)
To: FlingWingFlyer
"I’d love to kick the **** out of the moron who designed the one on the north end of Payson, Arizona." You and me both.
To: Arec Barrwin
A couple have been built recently around here. I was skeptical at first but they seem to work great and are much preferable to a light or a 3- or 4-way stop. They are NOT the same as traffic circles. Work best in tighter, more congested, slow speed situations. I expect to see more of them and think that it will be good to have them.
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:16:03 PM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(Are you in a union job? I'm sorry to hear that.)
To: Kieri
Are you not allowed to enter the intersection and make a left turn as the light turns from yellow to red?
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posted on
07/21/2009 7:16:09 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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