Re:The Case for More Traffic Roundabouts
by grecy on Saturday September 19, 2015 @12:53AM
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I grew up in Australia in a town nicknamed "The city of roundabouts", I know a thing or two about them.
Upon moving to North America, it was shocking to encounter my first 4 way stop. To this day I still shake my head every time I encounter one.
They are non-existent in Australia.
It's been amusing watching the resistance of North Americas to roundabouts, I think, because they are never taught how to use them. Sometimes I ask people the correct way to signal in a roundabout, and I swear I've never had two people in the same room agree.
The city of Calgary installed one, and it was taken out soon after because of a public outcry.
In another city in North America I lived in, they put one in, and a lady promptly drove straight through it, crashing her car. She sued the city and one, because it wasn't fair to go and put in a roundabout like that.
Upon moving to North America, it was shocking to encounter my first 4 way stop. To this day I still shake my head every time I encounter one. They are non-existent in Australia.
It's been amusing watching the resistance of North Americas to roundabouts, I think, because they are never taught how to use them. Sometimes I ask people the correct way to signal in a roundabout, and I swear I've never had two people in the same room agree.
The city of Calgary installed one, and it was taken out soon after because of a public outcry. In another city in North America I lived in, they put one in, and a lady promptly drove straight through it, crashing her car. She sued the city and one, because it wasn't fair to go and put in a roundabout like that.