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Re:We're excited about our new roundabout by bane on Monday October 07, 2024 @12:57PM (#41768084)
I believe that I've read that elsewhere. They allow for better and higher flow than an intersection, but have a weird failure mode at very high rates where the circle gets loaded and all directions thus stop.
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Re:We're excited about our new roundabout by barrkel on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @06:47PM (#41793615)
It's rather that if there's a continuous inflow of traffic that usually doesn't take one of the exits, then all traffic coming coming from that exit doesn't get a chance to join the roundabout.

What usually happens is the roundabout gets traffic lights.

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