C'mon, folks, they aren't "traffic circles"! They are roundabouts! And
believe it or not, they are the greatest thing since sliced bread when you
use them in England! Of course I have found the English drivers to be far
more courteous than we Yanks. And that is the key to the effectiveness in
keeping traffic moving around a roundabout. And the brilliance of them for
a Yank is that when you are lost, you can drive around and around and
around until you get your bearings...or you run out of gas! I have to
admit that when I first started going to England back in Dirt AD, there
were times I wanted to put an American Flag on my car and a sign in my
window: "Sorry! Dumb Yank Driving".
All seriousness aside, roundabouts are truly a great way to manage traffic
if used properly. American traffic engineers, unfortunately, have never
learned this lesson! But a stop sign at the entrance? Gotta be one of the
stoopidest things imaginable, although some roundabouts in England are
appearing with stoplights!
Buster Evans
> [Original Message]
> From: David Lieb <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
> To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: 11/14/2007 7:07:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] What is still there?
>
> > Oh, trafic circles are for fun.
>
> Unless you have been condemned to live in the Chicago area where there
are
> only three or four of them, of which only one ever sees any traffic. It
is,
> therefore, known as "Suicide Circle" and can be considered a textbook
> example of how NOT to build a traffic circle. Start with a circle that is
> too small, then place a stop sign at each of the six entrances, two of
which
> are 2-lane roads, the other four are 4-lane roads. At any given moment,
at
> least two of the people at the entrances have no idea what this thing is.
No
> one has figured out what the inside lane is for, since it is such a small
> circle. It would be funny if it were not so pathetic.
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