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There is one here in Houston located in the Museum District. It's beautiful! My absolute favorite part of the city. The first time I used it I was a little confused but now it's easy to use and it really does help traffic.
How many lanes did the roundabout replace adding the initial 2 intersecting roads together? Also, how does it handle pedestrians and bicyclists? THANX.
That road I posted does have a lot of traffic. A couple auto plants and a lot of residents. I'm pretty sure that there was 8 lanes of traffic before it was put in.
Here the traffic circles have to have traffic lights in them to keep people from killing themselves, defeating the purpose of having a circle in the first place.
Here the traffic circles have to have traffic lights in them to keep people from killing themselves, defeating the purpose of having a circle in the first place.
It is an oxymoronic move and Sarasota is discussing having some traffic lights with it also??? Makes no sense to me?
In suburban Cobb County just NW of Atlanta, they are experimenting with them. There is one small roundabout (1 lane) that works very well, and a second 1 lane roundabout is in the planning stages. I think in a couple of other suburban areas the same sized smaller ones are in planning stages as well.
In many of the suburbs here, you still have lots of 2 lane roads. They never suspected that the metro Atlanta of 1.5 million people in the late 1970s would eventually turn into a metro area of 5.2 million in 2009. Due to very poor predictions and poor planning, many of those same 2 lane roads of yesteryear are still in use today, only with 20X the traffic on them they saw decades ago. Some of the intersections on these routes can back up a lot. The one area where the existing roundabout is in place has seen a big decrease in the congestion at that one intersection.
That being said, if they did a multi-lane roundabout within Atlanta, I'm not sure it would fly well. We're famous for having a high percentage of drivers who originate from all over the world, and who drive with cell/texting in hand, etc. A 4-6 lane roundabout here would most likely just lead to chaos.
More info...
Atlanta Metro News*| ajc.com (http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/stories/2008/11/23/cobbround.html?cxntlid=inform_sr - broken link)
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THANX.
