Easy guide for using a roundabout
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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.
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Yes, it's a shame they didn't make a fifth one
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A bit of info for anyone who doesn't know how to use a roundabout: it's just a one-way street that loops around on itself tightly. Seriously. That's it.
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Some of the roundabouts in my town are subterranean and have a column of bedrock in the middle. Good luck with that.
Of course the ones above ground are covered in ice for about half the year and you end up slow speed drifting around them.
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This does make me wonder: do municipalities with a large number of roundabouts have stats for how these things foil drunk drivers? I feel like there's a serious possibility of reducing fatalities if we just replace the center of these circles with ponds and/or sand traps.
Or with a minefield.
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I live in France and I can confirm, this is how we drive roundabouts (but you have to watch out for people demonstrating (or not
)).I have been to France quite a few times and I never noticed that. Using someone else's bumber as a stopping bar however...
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Wrong side of the road on this picture.
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Hey, who got this picture of me?
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A bit of info for anyone who doesn't know how to use a roundabout: it's just a one-way street that loops around on itself tightly. Seriously. That's it.
I know, they are so easy to understand.
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Wrong side of the road on this picture.
Okay... Sending it to him cause he loves making fun of me for being american
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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).
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Now playing The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
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A bit of info for anyone who doesn't know how to use a roundabout: it's just a one-way street that loops around on itself tightly. Seriously. That's it.
I want to get off Mr Bone's Wild roundabout!
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A bit of info for anyone who doesn't know how to use a roundabout: it's just a one-way street that loops around on itself tightly. Seriously. That's it.
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.
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There have been efforts https://youtu.be/xTk_kPeA63c
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Upvoted you beacause you admitted to being wrong.
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