The French take on roundabouts is slightly different.They give way to
traffic coming on to the roundabout. Wow. Mind-fuck.
Roger
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Judy Prince
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> A friend sent me the following Q/A (and URL) on roundabouts, from a column
> in the NYT:
>
> *Q.* The United States has very few traffic circles, or roundabouts, as they
> are known in the United Kingdom. Are there traffic flow benefits to using
> traffic circles, assuming we could somehow teach the population how they
> should be properly entered and exited? — Jeff Bean
>
> *A.* Given that we actually invented the traffic circle, I think it's high
> time we brought it back. But not the traffic circles of yore, but the modern
> roundabout — a totally different beast. There are absolutely traffic flow —
> and emissions — benefits to roundabouts (as well as the discussed safety
> benefits above). Research by Mandaville, et al., at Kansas State University
> has found that roundabouts can reduce average vehicle delay by 65 percent,
> and other research has found signalized intersections generate twice the
> emissions as those controlled by roundabouts.
>
>
> http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/answers-from-
> tom-vanderbilt-author-of-traffic/
>
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