Safety benefits of roundabouts
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Safety benefits of roundabouts
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#2Seriously, americans need to learn about these.
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#3Seriously, americans need to learn about these.
we have tons of them where i live in south florida
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#4Seriously, americans need to learn about these.
As an American, I can assure you that we have loads of these
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#5Seriously, americans need to learn about these.
the resistance is a problem. there are a few in Pasadena, CA on Los Robles between California and Raymond where it's a roundabout, with stop signs on each entrance. the worst of both worlds.
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#6Seriously, americans need to learn about these.
As an American, I can assure you that we have loads of these
As a guy who actually read the article, I can assure everyone else that this American is right
> In 2000, the U.S. only had 356 roundabouts. Over the past two decades, that number has grown to over 10,000.
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#7I grew up in a town in Australia nicknamed "The City of Roundabouts". Essentially all intersections in the entire town are roundabouts, including two lane ones, etc. It's quite common to drive the entire length of town (~20 blocks) in reasonably heavy traffic without ever stopping. On a good day you do it in 2nd gear, the whole way. At night you can do it in 3rd gear, because it's exceptionally easy to see headlights of any car you need to yield to.
Four way stops do not exist (I've never seen one in all of Australia), and they are still the strangest concept for me living in Canada. They feel like a colossal waste of time and energy, and vastly worse than roundabouts.
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#8Safety aside, roundabouts lower traffic significantly by never forcing cars to stop.
Congestion increases as cars need to stop because of the inevitable latency propagating along the tails, and having more than one traditional intersections along the way can only make things even worse, so any solution to prevent cars from slowing down to a stop would mitigate those effects.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an American, I can assure you that we have loads of these
As a guy who actually read the article, I can assure everyone else that this American is right > In 2000, the U.S. only had 356 roundabouts. Over the past two decades, that number has grown to over 10,000.
Less than half the 25,000 in UK, or just over half the 19,000 in Italy, or almost matching the 15,000 in Spain.
It's great news all over that the number is clearly increasing, but still a very long long way to go until it becomes widespread.
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#10My experience is that roundabouts help but don't solve. E.g. if there is a complete traffic jam, you may actually increase the risk of collision due to negotiations about right of way happening every time a car can move forward.
Some cities in Europe have so many roundabouts, and two or three lane roundabouts with complex exit decisions you need to make on a split second - it's actually very confusing to navigate.