Read the reader comments on the article, and you'll find lotsa countries'
folks chiming in with what they experience as well as their opinions.
Hilda still on Holiday
2008/8/22 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
> 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
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 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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