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Like em...except for the folks who come up on them and don't know what to do and screw it all up. I go through 4 of them on the way to work everyday and thankfully 2 of them have 2 lanes for passing the freaked out folks.
They've got a lot of advantages. Saves tons of gas and related emissions (environmental concerns) over stop signs and many stop lights.
But as I heard someone say about them years ago, there's usually one in most any major city and it's always in the worst place. So they get a terrible rep. I wouldn't want to see them used for major intersections, but I wish they were more popular here in the US.
When I come across them in a lifted turbo diesel I feel like driving through the center of the circle and continuing on my way, especially if the people in it are indecisive or are driving slow.
It irritates me to see my city government spending so much money on them. Not only road work, but they place large and expensive statues in each one and do extensive landscaping. I know that they will have to rip them out eventually, for more waste of money.
They work just fine if traffic is light. The work badly in heavy traffic.
In heavy traffic, they back traffic up for a long time and that traffic then turns off on surface streets causing heavy traffic in nearby local neighborhoods.
The big trucks can make the tight circle and they have to run up over the curb and across the circle, so the truckers don't much like them.
By the way, there is a very large traffic circle in Edinburgh Scotland where they had to go back and put a traffic light at each intersection where a new road feeds into the traffic circle. So, you have a traffic circle that has 6 traffic lights around it.
I grew with them. We had them everywhere in the old country, large or small. I do not mind them at all. Thing is, besides AK,states here do not require drivers to signal their intentions entering/on/exiting roundabouts, what is causing massive confusion on driver intentions. I made a personal point to use turn lights to clearly indicate what I shall do next in roundabout. Maybe it will catch.
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