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Post by Yuliya on Jul 7, 2004 14:03:57 GMT -5
Evidently. England is a very free country, you know. If you don't want to go there - you just don't go. I don't know if there's a way around, though. Actually, rotaries aren't that bad, you're just not used to them.
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Post by migs on Jul 7, 2004 16:09:18 GMT -5
Yes, roundabouts are quite nice IF people know how to use them. Where I live (in the west), people tend to treat them like 4-way stops (or worse). I've sat behind people who've come to a complete stop and waited for traffic down the road to approach, enter, and go through the roundabout before they would go through it. Drives me crazy migs
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Post by Yuliya on Jul 8, 2004 2:57:06 GMT -5
Oh, you mean those idiots who don't know the traffic on the rotary has the right of the way despite all those yield signs at every entrance and additional signs saying just that? Grrrr! Another thing that drives me crazy (and not only crazy but nearly off-road) is those - er - who in the left lane of a two-lane rotary suddenly decide to get off right through the car I'm peacefully driving in the right lane.
I really liked rotaries in the South of France. They have a lot of them in those small roads between towns, and while road numbers aren't always obvious, every rotary has a well displayed name that's also written on a map, so it was very easy to tell where I was and where I took a wrong turn. Easy to get back, too, just another round on a rotary and a short drive back. They decorate their roatries, too. One, for instance, had a huge jar in the middle, with shrubs and flowers growing around, very pretty. Naturally, it was called Carefour de Jar (or something like that, don't hold my French spelling against me.)
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Post by sparklingblue on Jul 8, 2004 9:39:02 GMT -5
We have rotaries in Germany, too. They are really useful on crossroads to avoid traffic jams. And we even decorate them with flowers. There are usually also well-placed signs. But with most of those I have to use I know the directions already. In Ireland they also have rotaries, but they never were a real problem. Nothing like the one in Yuliya'a link. All in all I have the impression that they are a fairly new feature of road-building.
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Post by curious george on Jul 8, 2004 10:00:29 GMT -5
They've talked about putting something like that in our neighborhood, although for this area, it's a fairly new concept. Can't begin to speak for the whole country, of course.
Come to think of it, driving through the heart of Indy seems to be a bit like that. The middle of town is the site of Monument Circle, where (amazingly enough), there is a monument inside a circle. Traffic enters and exits from two cross streets, but you can only go counter-clockwise around it.
Not far from where I grew up there used to be a triangle-shaped intersection with 10 stop signs. Really.
cg
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