comparing this roundabout in Boulogne-sur-Mer with one at my alma mater...compare ratio of center island area to travel lane areapic.twitter.com/HgvodVVuTA
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Narrow lanes & deflections are useful ways to control speed *on streets,* but applying the same very effective tools at intersections just means throwing away a lot of the advantage you get by eliminating traffic lights--people will drag race btw intersections, then choke at them
Why are traffic engineers so determined to fuck up roundabouts in USA? Well, this is a bit of a guess, but I think it's because you get a lot of accidents in intersections (due to conflicts + high speeds on green light), so they use roundabouts to address this
roundabouts always do two things: - eliminate turning conflicts - eliminate excess wait time from red lights and can be designed to do a third: - force traffic to slow down
When I speak favorably about roundabouts, I'm only considering the first two impacts--I dislike roundabouts that deliberately slow traffic down (that they tend to be laughably large and overdesigned doesn't help)
Can be dangerous when grassholes speed up and cut thru
grassholes?
a*holes who grass(floor) the pedals. Cut thru lanes on roundabouts
ok, granted--but they're a liability in any intersection and it's not worth bogging down *all* traffic in a vain hope to control them
My point is roundabouts can be more fluid than stop lights/signs but also more dangerous. They’re kinda cool though.
They are demonstrably safer than signalized or stop-sign intersections in terms of crashes, injuries, and deaths
I don’t doubt it. Where I’m at everyone’s a formula-1 driver who thrills in proving their cornering and cutting skillz
lmao, they're a scourge
Also, how come America has paving tiles on grass rather than tarmac pavements (sidewalks)?
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