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  • MikM Away
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    Mik
    wrote on last edited by
    #14

    I have driven extensively in Carmel and their roundabouts are great. Except that they are at every freaking intersection in some areas. It gets tiresome.

    That said, we are getting a lot more around me and they work pretty well. Where you get problems is the one laners where visibility is not as good coming up to it.

    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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    • markM Offline
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      I prefer roundabouts to stop signs and lights. We have a group of them by an entrance/exit to I-43 and a few more at an exit off I-90 about 8 miles from here.

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      • KlausK Klaus

        @doctor-phibes said in Roundabouts:

        gives priority to cars coming onto the rotary LIKE THE FUCKING FRENCH DO

        Hu? That's not how French roundabouts work, I think. The whole point of the roundabout is that those on the rotary have priority.

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        wrote on last edited by Copper
        #16

        @klaus said in Roundabouts:

        The whole point of the roundabout is that those on the rotary have priority.

        Yes, of course

        I used to go through 4 rotaries on the way to school when I was in college in Boston. That route would have been unusable without them.

        They could solve a lot of problems in Northern Virginia.

        Where was I where they had rotaries but then the idiots had traffic lights in each of them? That destroyed the whole thing. Detroit maybe.

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          The US driver hadn't even figured out the zipper method of merging and now you expect them to understand a roundabout?

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          • KincaidK Kincaid

            The US driver hadn't even figured out the zipper method of merging and now you expect them to understand a roundabout?

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            #18

            @kincaid said in Roundabouts:

            The US driver hadn't even figured out the zipper method of merging...

            Another thing that frequently sends me into apoplexy.

            I probably need to calm TF down.

            Having said that, I was once stuck in a traffic jam in the UK near my parents house, and cars were actually blocking emergency service vehicles from getting through by using lanes they weren't supposed to. In the end a couple of large trucks took action to essentially run these drivers off the road in order to let the ambulance through. It was genuinely sickening to watch. I think on the whole US drivers are a lot better behaved when they hear an ambulance or fire engine.

            I was only joking

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            • CopperC Offline
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              #19

              While in the rotary, never make eye contact

              Never

              It is an admission that you see them.

              A Bostonian will take advantage of that every time.

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              • CopperC Copper

                While in the rotary, never make eye contact

                Never

                It is an admission that you see them.

                A Bostonian will take advantage of that every time.

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                @copper said in Roundabouts:

                While in the rotary, never make eye contact

                Never

                It is an admission that you see them.

                A Bostonian will take advantage of that every time.

                There's a legendary clip of a German TV journalist crossing the roundabout at Place de la Concorde in France live on TV, suggesting that the trick to crossing as a pedestrian is to avoid eye contact at all cost.

                https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1533711050051587

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                • MikM Away
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                  You really haven't had the roundabout experience until you do it in Tijuana.

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                  • MikM Mik

                    You really haven't had the roundabout experience until you do it in Tijuana.

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                    wrote on last edited by
                    #22

                    @mik said in Roundabouts:

                    You really haven't had the roundabout experience until you do it in Tijuana.

                    Nor the reacharoundabout experience.

                    Education is extremely important.

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                    • George KG Offline
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                      "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                      The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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