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Originally Posted by pcbrew
We actually had a roundabout installed in our area recently. It really relieves pressure during rush hour at this intersection without the need for a traffic light that would back things up the rest of the time. I wonder if this experiment will lead to more instances.
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Roundabouts are great aren't they!
. Trouble is, they rely on people knowing how to use them, and lots of road planners see how well they work in the UK and put them up elsewhere in the world and while they work in some places, in others they cause chaos - they've put some up in parts of the Middle East and there they're like Death Ralley!
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Originally Posted by Weaselboy
Oh yes.. we have roundabouts. You can always tell one is coming up by all the skid marks going up over the curb in the middle. |
lol.... I live in the only "artificial" city in the UK, ie it didn't exist before the '60s and was built and planned from scratch instead of growing organically like all our other towns & cities. It's known even here as the city of roundabouts!
Pretty much every one of the junctions between the yellow roads on this map is a roundabout, as are most of hte other junctions:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=milton...rce=gplus-ogsb
They're pretty big, and you can easily go into one at 40mph when you can see the coast is clear:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=milton...rce=gplus-ogsb
The great thing is that when there's no traffic you can get from one side of town to the other really quickly - and even during rush hour the delays are nothing compared with what our other towns & cities suffer from.