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Re:Almost every speed limit is too low (2017) by davidgay on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:04PM (#19923188)
Of course it's always possible to screw up a good thing: the intersection next to our house has been replaced by a roundabout with a 2-way stop sign. To make it worse, you can really only see the traffic coming from one of the other 2 directions when you are stopped.

Result (people not being familiar with roundabouts doesn't help): people stop in the middle of going around the roundabout, and/or get honked at by the people coming from the 2 directions without stop signs. I'm sure an accident is coming soon :(

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Re:Almost every speed limit is too low (2017) by graywh on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @04:19PM (#19923319)
this sounds like some traffic calming measures that were recently installed near me just last year

they are islands in the middle of the intersection, but not roundabouts, forcing cars to "swerve" to pass through

they haven't worked as intended and are being re-evaluated

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