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This is near where I live and it is indeed safe, mainly because everyone drives incredibly slowly and cautiously since the experience is scary as hell.
My 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.
They decrease serious collisions.
Roundabout with more roundabouts on it. Because.
Basically just a little ring road.
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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.
It is nice to not have to pay for replacement signals, or have to deal with power outages that kill the signals though.
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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.
So 59 000 roundabouts for half the population versus 10 000 in the US.
That's a deficit of 90% per capita :-)
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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.
For my other Americans, read the Australian's post above. Can get across an entire town without stopping as a reason to remake our towns with roundabouts.
Well with a roundabout if you just go straight ahead you hit the center circle. Good roundabouts always have a slight hill and some kind of barrier (a tree or some kind of statue) in the center so that the guy that just goes straight through will hit something in the center and wont come out the other side and will thus be less likely to kill an innocent person.
Single lane roundabouts are usually a good idea if the cost justifies it. Double and more lane roundabouts probably should be avoided in the US; they include rather obscure rules as to which lane you are allowed to drive in at any moment and americans do not like to learn new rules.