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I know this is memes but as a Brit, I’ll never understand how people are scared of, don’t understand, or don’t see that roundabouts are superior.
It takes a few goes in them during driving lessons and they get easier.
They’re good in low traffic areas. They’re way better than a 4 way stop, but in high traffic areas traffic lights are better.
Nope. Traffic lights create high traffic areas, by unnecessarily delaying cross traffic.
Near my parents house, there is a 6-way intersection. When I was growing up, it was served by traffic lights, with straight and left-turn lanes in all directions. Traffic was backed up all day long in 3 of the 6 directions, to the point that pretty much everyone waited through at least two turns.
A few years after I left home, they converted it to a two-lane roundabout. Traffic immediately died down. Now, you typically see one to two other vehicles when you pass through the intersection, and you never wait more than a few seconds to get through.
in high traffic areas traffic lights are better.
Absolutely not. And roundabouts have traffic lights too, these are not mutually exclusive.
Not necessarily.
Roundabouts are used in area of moderate to high traffic where multiple roads meet and places where continuous flow is needed. Like motorway junctions. The junction near me is very high traffic, and we use a roundabout with traffic lights too. They can be less effective if the flow of traffic is heavy in one direction but not the other.
Traffic lights are used in busy urban areas where there are a lot of pedestrians or places with uneven traffic distribution. These can cause issues of slowing traffic in quieter times due to lights not really being smart and knowing when people are there.
A bit of info for anyone who doesn’t know how to use a roundabout: it’s just a one-way street that loops around on itself tightly. Seriously. That’s it.
I want to get off Mr Bone’s Wild roundabout!
I know, they are so easy to understand.
They are, but I feel like there are people who like to cause unnecessary confusion by making things out to be more complex than they are (not just limites to roundabouts, either).
Hey, who got this picture of me?
Avg american driver
I live in France and I can confirm, this is how we drive roundabouts (but you have to watch out for the people demonstrating (or not🙃)).
I have been to France quite a few times and I never noticed that. Using someone else’s bumper as a stopping bar however…
Do not look up at the sky. Do not make noise.
Guide to using a roundabout
- When approaching roundabout area, don’t adjust your speed
- When approaching the entrance to the roundabout, close your eyes and hold your steering wheel tightly
- When entering the roundabout, let your vehicle be guided by barriers, curbs, railings and other vehicles
- Wait until your vehicle exits the roundabout
- After you exit the roundabout, open your eyes
- If your vehicle fails, stops or is severely damaged or unable to function any more … blame everyone else for what just occurred.
This does make me wonder: do municipalities with a large number of roundabouts have stats for how these things foil drunk drivers? I feel like there’s a serious possibility of reducing fatalities if we just replace the center of these circles with ponds and/or sand traps.
Or with a minefield.
This is a great Forza guide.
Yes, it’s a shame they didn’t make a fifth one 😐.
Some of the roundabouts in my town are subterranean and have a column of bedrock in the middle. Good luck with that.
Pray
Of course the ones above ground are covered in ice for about half the year and you end up slow speed drifting around them.
For that 1 roundabout in the picture, yeah, just go through it. Whoever made it didn’t care to learn how roundabouts work either.
The rules for roundabouts are the same as the rules for crossing into the beyond in Pet Sematary
Just watch out for the guy camping there, Steve’s a good guy and is just temporarily down on his luck
Step 0: Get a monster truck.
Americans are seemingly already prepared
