Roundabouts Are Better

Townhall.com ^ | June 2, 20201 | John Stossel

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[mewzilla]

Great idea when properly sized.

[Kaslin]

That is why you should always watch the car in front of you. My driving teacher told me that 54 years ago.

[mewzilla]

Smaller ones are indeed better.

Along as they aren’t sized for go carts.

[BluH2o]

Live in western Colorado … roundabouts are commonplace and effective. There is a learning curve of sorts but in light of the fact that a large percentage of the traffic that flow thru roundabouts is local and repetitive it quickly becomes routine. A large roundabout near my home that I traverse practically on a daily basis is far more efficient than the traffic light it replaced. Several people I know who were skeptical initially are completely sold on this particular roundabout. It has been in place about a year now.

[Deaf Smith]

The only traffic circles that should be in Texas are those that go around the Court Houses.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Yep. I’m OK with roundabouts, but not with the idiots who can’t drive.

[Wallace T.]

Fortunately, TXDOT eliminated or bypassed those in the arterial highways in the late 20th Century.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I was being a bit sarcastic, actually. I do that too often as my age advances, and without a warning label. When I was in high school everyone hated the metric system because the government was basically trying to force it on us. The government should know that if it wants the public to hate something, they should force it on them.

But seriously, instead of standard multiples of 10, isn't it easier to remember that there are 5,280 feet in a mile, 12 inches in a foot, and 16 ounces in a pound (or is it 12?)? No wait, that was sarcasm again. Sorry.

I actually prefer the metric system while measuring or calculating things. I never use the inches side of the ruler anymore. So there.

And my family left Europe because they were being rounded up and killed by Russians. My great grandmother who lived to be 102 recited from memory to me the story of how they were lined up in a ditch and shot because they refused to be conscripted in some war, I don't know which one. Who would want to fight for the Russians? They were Germans, given some land in Russia in order to farm it. And then that happened. Never trust the Russians.

[mad_as_he$$]

What the heck? How does one navigate that nightmare? That’s got to be photoshopped. No traffic engineer is that insane - I hope.

[deport]

Corner stores be long gone......

It will now be the Round About stores.

[just me]

18 1/2 Vandyke.
Crazy, it circles in to M 53

[FreshPrince]

I like em. Two installed recently in my neck of woods. Much better.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I hate ‘em.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

That is NOT a “roundabout” that’s a big mess.

[polymuser]

“I’m OK with roundabouts, but not with the idiots who can’t drive.”

AMEN!

Phone-distracted drivers don’t like them — one has to pay attention in them, no peeking at that next bff text.

[shoff]

The problem with round abouts is trying to maintain 60 mph thru them.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Too many crashes in 3-lane roundabout

That's a rotary...they suck.

"Roundabouts" are only one lane wide. We have both in this state. I hate the rotaries.

[maddog55]

Roundabouts confuse a lot of people. The worst are the ones that enter them and then stop to let people in.

[CharlotteVRWC]

I was put in a horrible situation. It was a totally dark night and pouring down rain and I was approaching a 3 lane roundabout at a huge intersection that I did not know was there.

There was a truck to the right of me so I did not see the sign that I was approaching a roundabout and I missed seeing what lane to be in for exiting the roundabout.
Luckily I made it out alive.

I think the huge roundabouts are a mistake. They need to be well marked with plenty of signs and lights prior to approach. Some people may be from out of town and don’t even know or expect a roundabout to be there.