Easy guide for using a roundabout
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Well did the expand any other roads near by, or have a large business close down. Sound like drmand for that path died down
No. The problem wasn't the amount of traffic. The problem was the delay from the lights. It was enough to build up long queues on three of the six entry roads. It turns out when you don't unnecessarily impede drivers, they don't become "traffic".
A housing allotment (~100 single family homes) was built about a mile down one of the feeder roads. An elementary school was torn down on another road, but a high school and rec center were built on the old site. The number of vehicles passing through that intersection has only increased.
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Wait you have traffic lights on your roundabouts?
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A few actual problems:
- Because they don't provide any breaks in traffic, high flow times can make it difficult for people living downstream to get out of their driveway
- People with eyesight disabilities can have problems navigating them. Advocacy organizations would like them to use stop signs rather than yield signs, but this reduces the throughput of the roundabout.
If a driveway directly leads into a high flow road, you have a stroad problem, not a roundabout problem.
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Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. WTF were they even thinking!
You can actually just use the outside one to get to your destination. You don't have to use the smaller ones in the middle if you don't want to
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The only way out is through.
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Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. WTF were they even thinking!
Jesus fucking Christ, that looks like it should be the last map in an F-Zero game
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I read somewhere that in America to get your license, they take a 40 question quiz, that you can pass with up to 10 mistakes and the driving test usually consists of low speed driving and parking, no highways, no roundabouts.
Don't know how much of this is true, but that sounds too simple.
In Ontario / Canada it’s pretty much that. G1 - written test split between signs and road laws but you can only drive with another licensed driver of 5 years experience or more and can’t drive highways
G2 - driving test, low speed no highway. You do basic driving procedures (reverse, parallel, 3 point turn) I imagine doing a roundabout depends on where you live, but where I am they’re not close by so it’s not included.
G - same as above and then you boot down the highway for an exit.
TBH, passing is not hard in the slightest. And that’s improved from what used to be the 365 - you do a test get a license, drive for a year and do a road test after.
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I know this is memes but as a Brit, I’ll never understand how people are scared of, don’t understand, or don’t see that roundabouts are superior.
It takes a few goes in them during driving lessons and they get easier.
During driving lessons.
Sure.
In the state I learned to drive in, they didn't exist. They weren't in the driver's manual. Nothing.
So there are generations of people who can't, or won't, figure out how they work, its a fucking nightmare.
Moved to another state recently. No problems here. In fact, driving here is a much less harrowing experience.
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Step 6: yeet
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You can actually just use the outside one to get to your destination. You don't have to use the smaller ones in the middle if you don't want to
Or close your eyes, slam down the accelerator and pray to whatever God that you follow to make it out the other side.
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I know this is memes but as a Brit, I’ll never understand how people are scared of, don’t understand, or don’t see that roundabouts are superior.
It takes a few goes in them during driving lessons and they get easier.
Everybody is gangsta until you need to exit from the innermost lane at Place Charles de Gaulle.
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Everybody is gangsta until you need to exit from the innermost lane at Place Charles de Gaulle.
Dude I was in Paris once in a taxi (cab) going over that roundabout and let me tell you French people are insane. It was just road rage and every person for themselves.
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Everybody is gangsta until you need to exit from the innermost lane at Place Charles de Gaulle.
Invoking the French is cheating though. They can barely handle the straight roads.
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Jesus fucking Christ, that looks like it should be the last map in an F-Zero game
What?
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Or close your eyes, slam down the accelerator and pray to whatever God that you follow to make it out the other side.
whatever God that you follow
Naah:
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What?
I'm making dumb jokes, get the fuck out of here with your facts and logic
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