Posted on 07/01/2011 9:59:00 AM PDT by the scotsman
Sounds like they should have put up stands so people could watch and bet on the accidents!
Does Bubbba still have a place up by you?
Chimera, I am sitting here nodding my head in agreement to all you said.
If you can drive in Joisey, you can drive anywhere!
I don't think I could handle that. I couldn't get by without blowing it out on some idiot driver. It's a great stress reliever, blows off steam that might otherwise be channeled into road rage. When I was a teenager back in the Jerz, I added a PA speaker to supplement the horn, so not only could I blow them off, but give them an earful as well. Ah, the crazy things we do when we're young...:-)
Well, as one who has driven in New Jersey, you know that hornblowing is another skillset that has to be acquired.
There are rules, you know!!
It took a few months of acclimation, but folks here are patient with you, and more often than not, will stop to allow you to turn left if there is traffice.
People here also wave a lot, whether or not they even know you. It is the neighborly thing to do.
Now you KNOW that is not allowed in NJ!!!!
Sounds like the folks in DE are a bit more genteel in their driving habits. Must be the "rural" environment.
Yeah, but the Concord Rotary is a major bottleneck. I drive miles out of my way on side streets to avoid it. Five streams of traffic converge there. They could replace it with a traffic light, easily.
Roundabouts are a great way to keep traffice flowing. We go to the UK every year or so, and I’m now accustomed to driving them, but I don’t see them catching on in the US. They require a certain amount discipline and skill that most American drivers lack.
I disagree. We have a number of them in our state and are developing more each year. Great for rural roads and are well used and liked. American drivers in our state are pretty disiplined and able to manage them.
....s-l-o-w-l-e-y!
Limited access highways are a great way to keep traffic moving quickly, with minimal slowdowns. Usually.
The locals were talking about taking two 4-6 lane 45 mph roads that presently enjoy an older highway-style interchange, and turning that interchange into a traffic circle (roundabout). Presently, people that are heading straight generally maintain 45-55 mph on both roads. With a Roundabout, that would slow to a crawl as the massive amount of traffic had to yield and negotiate to get a position on the circle. We don't need more impediments to movement, we need fewer.
That's just about right, though I prefer to pretend I'm an open-wheel driver on a tiny track. I don't want to rub paint with my car. Maybe with the truck though, since it's 7 years old and BIG!
Basically, I attack them with reckless abandon, timing and choosing the gap and charging in. Yield means "pick your spot" to me, though to many, it means "stop and look like an idiot".
Is it a circle, rotary, or roundabout? I can’t tell.
Looks like a mess to me.
They were called rotaries since the beginning. Naming them roundabouts has recently come into vogue. I suspect the anglophile socialists (the PBS following) think it is a more chic way to call them as they advance their "smart growth agenda." That agenda is determined to make you suffer while driving in the hope you switch to mass transportation. They make straight roads crooked, four lanes reduced to two, bike lanes everywhere, speed bumps, sidewalk jetties, more traffic signals, and roundabouts.
They were called rotaries since the beginning. Naming them roundabouts has recently come into vogue. I suspect the anglophile socialists (the PBS following) think it is a more chic way to call them as they advance their "smart growth agenda." That agenda is determined to make you suffer while driving in the hope you switch to mass transportation. They make straight roads crooked, four lanes reduced to two, bike lanes everywhere, speed bumps, sidewalk jetties, more traffic signals, and roundabouts.
There are only two rotaries I ever recall seeing outside of Massachusetts, one in Westchester County, NY and one in southern New Jersey, near Atlantic City. I’ve spent a lot of time in Eastern Virginia, btw.
Circles should be navigated completely sober, avoided by the tipsy.
The two I mentioned at Rt 15 at Rt 50 are only about a year or two old now. Part of a new movement by Middleburg, Va, “horse-country” uber-rich folk, called “traffic calming” to slow traffic on 50, the road that runs through Middleburg...
As far as I can see, if one is careful, these are better than a light—traffic moves more smoothly and consistently.
The Route 2 Concord Rotary is a major traffic bottleneck, traffic backs up for about a mile at rush hour. It does have the effect of slowing down incident traffic, but the Acton cops have a field day just west of it. Not at all incidentally, the first traffic light west of the Concord Rotary takes its toll in traffic fatalities. I would say at least 3/4 of all traffic fatalities in Acton (town west of Concord) are at the traffic light west of “the” Rotary.
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