Oh yes, they sure do! Still a fair number around, though lots of them seem
to have traffic lights now. And here in Portland we have yet another genius
variation - the rotary that has SOME of the entrances to it with STOP
SIGNS! Makes it damned near impossible to get out into the stream of
traffic, particularly as most people ignore the signs anyway. If I was the
Portland PD, I would just sit an officer with a radio at that rotary and
write about 500 tickets an hour for failure to stop.
Kevin Rhodes
Westbrook Maine
At 06:44 06/08/2001 -0700, Fred Marks wrote:
>Scott-
>
>I too loved traffic circles. I say that in the past
>tense as most of them are gone. They just put a new
>one in Clearwater but people just can't seem to handle
>it. :-o
>
>When I lived in Massachusetts during the 1980's, I
>watched as slowly, all the major traffic circles (they
>called 'em "rotaries" up Boston way) were converted to
>traffic light intersections. There were still plenty
>left when I left in 1990, along the Jamaicaway & Rte
>1, etc.
>
>In truth though, it always seemed to me that your
>average Massachusetts driver never could figure out
>the principles which govern traffic circle use. I
>remember it driving me nuts 'cause I used to commute
>to Norwood from Boston and had to go through several
>circles--People IN the circle have a tendency to yield
>to let other cars in.
>
>Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out
>that if enough people do this, the whole damned circle
>fills up and stops cold dead!
>
>Hey Mass. people, they still doing this up there?
>
>
>Fred Marks
>Brandon, FL
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