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As long as you stay Close To The Edge.
Sure, it starts with roundabouts, but the next thing you know we’re using the metric system. It’s a slippery slope. My family left Europe for a reason.
Just like iced coffee.
until you get behind the moron who stops, even though there is not another car in sight!
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roundabouts are for the aggressive, and definitely not for the timid!
we have a small one on our residential street. Its ok enough but there is a learning curve to make it work as intended.
Some folks just don’t get it...like a 4-way stop sign.
I’m in Middle Tennessee and they have put a few round about in the new subdivisions. I love roundabouts being I spent a short time in England in the Air Force during the cold war. Another good thing about roundabouts is that if you have a vehicle that is prone to be on the boarder line of overheating your more apt to not have it overheat in an area with roundabouts vs stop lights being most of the time the your vehicle is moving getting air flow across the radiator. I live in Murfreesboro, Tennessee were the traffic is horrendous almost all the time during the day, and very terrible during rush hour, alot of stop lights you have to wait through two cycles before you get through, it really gets old. Roundabouts in this area would really help out a lot but it would really be expensive to put them in, and that is not going to happen. anyway if you don’t like traffic don’t move to the Nashville/Middle Tennessee area with all the various bedroom communities/cities you will hate it.
“Roundabouts are also better for the environment. You never come to a complete stop, Brainard points out”
I saw this traffic modelling video the other day about a humble cross roads which becomes a grade-separated clover-leaf or some such.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITr127KZtQ
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Great idea when properly sized.
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.
Corner stores be long gone......
It will now be the Round About stores.
I like em. Two installed recently in my neck of woods. Much better.
The problem with round abouts is trying to maintain 60 mph thru them.
Roundabouts confuse a lot of people. The worst are the ones that enter them and then stop to let people in.
Great intro to this one...
They just need to take out that center thing so you can go straight through.
Several years ago they put traffic circles on several of the old, wide residential streets near downtown Waco to try to slow traffic. They had to go back and install things in the middle to stop Red Necks from just driving over and through them :)
Roundabouts are great for learning how to drift.