Good ol’ Amherst. I miss it. Sometimes.
Circles would work OK for low-traffic areas with proper driver training. When you start getting into some of those big multi-lane monstrosities? No thanks.
What blows my mind is seeing that the UK apparently use them for the roads going on and off motorways (limited-access highways). I can’t visualize how having traffic circles to get on and off a major highway is more efficient than just having a simple intersection...especially that from what I’ve seen on TV, those roundabouts have stoplights! Huh?
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Yup. Amherst. Pretty little town.
I think the circles work best where there’s a modest but fairly constant traffic flow in both directions. Then there’s a rhythm to them that makes sense. There’s a town near here with one on each side of a freeway overpass, but it’s not a heavily traveled freeway, and there’s a Wal-Mart on one side and a retail strip on the other, and the circles move things along fine.