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Re: Right turn / roundabouts

To: TJYD20A@prodigy.com (MR THOMAS JONES), triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: Re: Right turn / roundabouts
From: Jim Harroun <jharroun@San-Jose.ate.slb.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 08:42:19 -0800
At 10:14 AM 11/4/97 -0500, MR THOMAS   JONES wrote:
>The discussion of the wisdom and origin of the right turn on red 
>rule
>has been interesting.  I was also glad to see confirmation that the
>left turn to one way, from one way, was legal, as I recalled that 
>Michigan's
>law allowed it, but I didn't know about other states' regs.
>
>An even better way to save fuel and allow traffic to flow at a rate
>appropriate to volume is the roundabout.  These are common in many
>European countries, but rare in the U.S.   I can think of only two, 
>one as you
> enter Cape CodMassachusetts and one in Syracuse New York adjacent 
>to
> I-90 at Thompson Road.   They should be encouraged in new 
>construction.
>
>

Hear, Hear!

I just returned from a vacation in England, and I loved the roundabouts.
They keep the traffic moving, no matter how busy it is.

Jim Harroun

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