Roundabouts are great for flow of traffic, but much like zipper merging, people need to know how to do it.
Or people who think people with dicks are women.
roundabouts are safer than traditional 4 way stop intersections
When there are more than 2 streets intersecting, I totally get it, they're very useful in those situations.
and when it's only 2, still very useful (assuming they aren't super high-volume)
You just can't help yourself, can you? This is literally a thread about traffic.
Worst take ever. They are WAY more efficient than stop sign and stop lights. Go to Europe sometime. The issue isn’t the traffic feature, the issue is morons who don’t understand the procedure.
I was keeping it about traffic, it was someone else who derailed this thread, perhaps you should call them out?
we've starting getting them where i live
I don't disagree, they've become popular down here and most people I know aren't fans of them. It's like parallel parking.
It's the people that think they're being polite by stopping in the roundabout to let others enter.
And you're quite the Team D player. Someone else levies an insult but it's me you came after.
Maybe they should include a sign at the roundabout that says "Traffic inside the roundabout does not stop"
I wasn't the first to derail this thread. In fact I've continued to comment on the point of the thread throughout. You want to completely ignore that fact for whatever reason. It's cool. Keep doing you, everyone else who reads this thread understands what happened here.
Sorry but your lib buddy dumped a Trump reference out first. Get on his case.
You could have ignored it, yet you chose to use it as an opportunity to hate on trans people.
no, I'm hating on stupid people... I did exactly what the first person did.
Oh but we could have ignored that for the 100,000,000,000 time.
I personally know tons of people who do like them. If you live in an area where they are common and therefore people know how to use them, they are much better than stop signs or lights in most situations at keeping traffic flowing. Additionally, they are much safer as (1) vehicles entering a roundabout are moving at slower speeds than a vehicle that runs a light or sign, and (2) the angle of impact is typically a side-swipe instead of a t-bone or head-on.
I am pro-roundabout but hear me out on this. I was in the Twin Cities this weekend where there are many roundabouts. The issue I have with them is you have to Yield to enter them. When the roundabout is busy with cars coming from the left on the outside lane the Yield becomes a Stop and cars start to back up to enter the roundabout. How is that better than a 4-way stop? I would say it is marginally better, so there is that. Also, when there is little traffic in the roundabout it is nice to not have to stop at every intersection, instead just cruising the roundabout.
That doesn't apply here. I appreciate your effort, but I didn't but trans this thread.
