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  • George KG George K

    None in our town, but in the adjacent suburb there's one in the center of town. Each of the streets leading to it has a stop sign.

    I may have posted this in the past:

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    @george-k said in Roundabouts:

    Each of the streets leading to it has a stop sign.

    Yeah, they did that on ours, too, even before the current debacle. It rather defeats the object.

    I was only joking

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      None of our roundabouts have stop signs, they have yield signs.

      “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

      Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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      • JollyJ Jolly

        None of our roundabouts have stop signs, they have yield signs.

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        @jolly said in Roundabouts:

        None of our roundabouts have stop signs, they have yield signs.

        Yes, that's what they're supposed to do.

        Having said that, back where I used to live in the UK, the roundabouts got so ridiculously busy that they ended up putting in traffic lights as well.

        I was only joking

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        • MikM Away
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          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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            mark
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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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              #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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                  @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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                    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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                          @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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