Easy guide for using a roundabout
-
This post did not contain any content.
Avg american driver
-
This post did not contain any content.
-
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.
-
This is a great Forza guide.
Yes, it's a shame they didn't make a fifth one
. -
This post did not contain any content.
-
Of course the ones above ground are covered in ice for about half the year and you end up slow speed drifting around them.
-
Absolutely not.
-
Or with a minefield.
-
I have been to France quite a few times and I never noticed that. Using someone else's bumber as a stopping bar however...
-
Wrong side of the road on this picture.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Hey, who got this picture of me?
-
I know, they are so easy to understand.
-
Wrong side of the road on this picture.
Okay... Sending it to him cause he loves making fun of me for being american
-
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).
-
This post did not contain any content.
Now playing The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
-
I want to get off Mr Bone's Wild roundabout!
-
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.
-
It can get slightly tricky when it has two lanes where only the right lane exits. The idea here is that you should merge into the right lane after the last exit before your exit, but so many people in my neighborhood don’t understand this.
-
This post did not contain any content.
There have been efforts https://youtu.be/xTk_kPeA63c
![[object Object]](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/0084eb83-44de-40a1-928c-7c34a859f931.png "[object Object]"){kind=avatar}
