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Rob Ocelot
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| Posted: 17 March 2018 at 8:42am | IP Logged | 1
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I see roundabouts in Canada a lot more often these days but they are usually of the single lane variety and not the multi-lane monsters I've seen pictures of in the UK. I get the concept but the idea of swirling around to get to the innermost lane and then back to the outer to make your exit still kind of does my head in.
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Robbie Parry
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Rob, when I'm President of the UK, roundabouts (all of them) will be abolished and replaced with traffic lights. I have always detested them.
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Wallace Sellars
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| Posted: 17 March 2018 at 9:26am | IP Logged | 3
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Yes, there are roundabouts in the US.
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Paul Kimball
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| Posted: 17 March 2018 at 9:40am | IP Logged | 4
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The US has roundabouts but I don't think we know how to use them. I'm in
Seattle and it's very normal for me to encounter someone going the wrong way
in one. unbelievable.
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Robbie Parry
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| Posted: 17 March 2018 at 9:40am | IP Logged | 5
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Thanks for the information, guys.
Traffic circles, eh? Whatever next? Next you'll be referring to a pavement as a sidewalk...
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Tim Cousar
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| Posted: 17 March 2018 at 1:51pm | IP Logged | 6
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There's a major intersection near me that is supposed to become a roundabout in the next couple of years, and the project is calling it a roundabout.
edited to add link
Edited by Tim Cousar on 17 March 2018 at 1:53pm
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Bill Collins
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My main bugbear is people who don't
indicate at junctions or roundabouts,
I give way to them, only to see them
turn at the last minute, grrrrrr! Then
there are the wankers who use fog
lights in all conditions except fog!
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Robbie Parry
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| Posted: 17 March 2018 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | 8
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And the drivers who are centimetres behind you. Why follow so closely?
One guy was right behind me. Must have been a millimetre between his front and my rear. I had a passenger in the vehicle, but I could not help shouting, "Piss off!" He must have heard it (or sensed it) as he backed off.
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Rebecca Jansen
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| Posted: 17 March 2018 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | 9
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It's because of other drivers I can't drive anywhere but someplace pretty rural and quiet (what they usually show in car commercials actually). I have seen some absolutely insane driving on highways where it was either someone trying to commit suicide or else they were tripping on some heavy substance. Also seen the results in passing a few times of someone that had gone speeding by earlier. Some refuse to slow down at all for fog or ice too. Angry at everyone types who think they are Jackie Stewart when most people just want transportation and to get someplace safe more than a.s.a.p.
Saucermen, bring on the evolvo-rays a.s.a.p., we're overdue!
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Robbie Parry
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Evolvo-rays? LOL.
I was driving one night, around 11pm, and this motorcycle sped past. Must have been 20mph over the limit. He was going so fast that his ass was bumping up and down on the seat. That's how speedy he was.
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Neil Lindholm
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I knew a crazy, dangerous driver similar to the ones mentioned above. I asked him why he drove that way and he replied that he owned the road and he barely tolerated everyone else on his road as long as they stayed out of his way. He was serious.
Macau has left-hand driving. I thought it would be difficult to master but it was quite simple. The problem was going back to Canada for the summer and my mom yelling at me on a few occasions for driving on the wrong side of the road (for Canada). Luckily it didn't take long to switch.
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: 17 March 2018 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | 12
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Roundabouts are awesome!
Robbie, in the US and Canada, the grid system is king. Urban planning, being more modern in the New World than the Europe, means that interchanges are usually perfect four-way intersections (as opposed to the UK where roads have grown -up organically over the centuries and tend to go in any old direction). You usually get this thing called a '4-way stop', which doesn't exist in the UK. Everyone approaching the junction has to stop. First person to stop gets to go move on next. No lights (of course, many junctions are also governed by lights). It works quite nicely in normal traffic conditions. In heavy traffic in dense urban areas it can lead to gridlock though and then a cop has to step in and direct the traffic.
Roundabouts are fairly uncommon in Canada, but you do get them and, as Rob says, they seem to be becoming more common. I have seen roundabouts in the States, but they seem to be even less common than in Canada.
I love a good roundabout.
A little beauty about a mile from where I grew up:
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