The Case for More Traffic Roundabouts

Re:The Case for More Traffic Roundabouts by ileitch on Friday September 18, 2015 @05:42PM (#10242228)

I hear the argument "Americans don't understand roundabouts, therefore we wont build any" quite often in these kinds of articles. If you survey people about something they've never comes across before, of course you're going to get negative results.

If Americans can drive and talk on their cell phones, they can handle a roundabout.

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Re:The Case for More Traffic Roundabouts by hessenwolf on Friday September 18, 2015 @05:57PM (#10242303)

Somebody gave me the argument in NASA that the US didn't switch metric because the cost would be too high because they are so big. Ireland and UK have gone metric in our lifetimes.

I mean, there are lazy people throwing out platitudes to justify doing nothing wherever you go.

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Re:The Case for More Traffic Roundabouts by tomohawk on Friday September 18, 2015 @05:59PM (#10242307)

If you asked farmers what they wanted in 1900, they would have said they wanted a horse that ate half as much and did twice as much work.

What they ended up with was a tractor.

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Re:The Case for More Traffic Roundabouts by maxxxxx on Friday September 18, 2015 @05:52PM (#10242277)

There are plenty of them in Maryland. They work great.

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