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traffic round abouts
grumpygy
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You have them Thoughts.
We have them in several places and once folks got used to them they really helped.
But now they went nuts got a double round about almost looks like a figure eight. Scary cause it would be rel easy for head ons.
We have them in several places and once folks got used to them they really helped.
But now they went nuts got a double round about almost looks like a figure eight. Scary cause it would be rel easy for head ons.
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A Rented Mini Cooper and a Couple Liters of Gas, and You can have Laugh-Out-Loud FUN! For Hours!!!
I learnt how to navigate Roundabouts in Merry Olde: Slot Second, and Mat It! [:D][:D][:D][:D]
Now, about those Numb Motorists who stop at entry, put on blinkers to enter and/or exit: Blast around them, giving the universal digit and a blare of Horns!!!
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
They don't use 'roundabouts' to speed up traffic. And I doubt it can be shown that traffic flows better than with traffic lights
The University I attended installed 'traffic circles' in the 1970's. Since students weren't allowed to use cars on campus, except on weekends, we were mostly pedestrians. As such, we had a bit of interaction with lost parents and became skilled at directing said parents through the circles.
Any guesses what the University uses today? Hint: They aren't round.
But, when traffic gets dense enough, Everybody gets Ticked Off and things get NASTY!
I hate them when Traffic is heavy, and avoid them.
But when Traffic is light, they are Fun!
Night time Drunks are cleaned out by hitting the Brick/Cement planters in the Middle, thus saving other Motorists! The many installed in My Little Fishing Village get "Modified" with regularity by unsafe motorists!
Cities LOVE them, as there are no signal woes, no power useage, and it slows criminals fleeing.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Brad Steele
Now me I kind a wanna do the Chevy Chase in "The European Vacation". Get in one and spend a day driving in a circle.
I grew up in the north so I was used to using a "rotary". They recently introduced them here in Virginia and southerners seem to have a difficult time grasping the concept. inexperience combined with today's general rudeness and incivility lead to folks not utilizing the yield concept. Which is problematic at a Rotary or "round about"I seem to remember one at Fairfax Circle in Fairfax, VA when we lived there from late 1978 to early 1981. However, it might not meet the true definition of a traffic round about or traffic circle.
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
I don?t mind the single lane ones, but navigating a two lane roundabout in Dubai at 60 mph put a real pucker in my pooter.Sounds like the one in Amman, yep, a real pucker factor!!!!!!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
quote:Originally posted by shilowar
I grew up in the north so I was used to using a "rotary". They recently introduced them here in Virginia and southerners seem to have a difficult time grasping the concept. inexperience combined with today's general rudeness and incivility lead to folks not utilizing the yield concept. Which is problematic at a Rotary or "round about"I seem to remember one at Fairfax Circle in Fairfax, VA when we lived there from late 1978 to early 1981. However, it might not meet the true definition of a traffic round about or traffic circle.
OK let me be specific..they recently introduced them to Roanoke VA....Out here we don't consider NoVA as part of our state. [;)]
quote:Originally posted by Old-Colts
quote:Originally posted by shilowar
I grew up in the north so I was used to using a "rotary". They recently introduced them here in Virginia and southerners seem to have a difficult time grasping the concept. inexperience combined with today's general rudeness and incivility lead to folks not utilizing the yield concept. Which is problematic at a Rotary or "round about"I seem to remember one at Fairfax Circle in Fairfax, VA when we lived there from late 1978 to early 1981. However, it might not meet the true definition of a traffic round about or traffic circle.OK let me be specific..they recently introduced them to Roanoke VA....Out here we don't consider NoVA as part of our state. [;)][:D][:D]
I can appreciate that!!!!!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
It's gone now and has been for some time but I grew up riding and later driving through it
The idea is great (a multi lane circle that merges traffic from several directions) until you remember how stupid and lazy most drivers and people are
The one I remember the most fondly was in the northeast - to enter Maine from the rest of new England you had to cycle through a circle (was a big wine and spirits business there)
Mike
I hate those damn things. Most people I know call them traffic circles, I call them traffic jerkles.
Yep, they need to keep that crap where it belongs, which is outside the USA.
Every one has dark tire skid marks straight through it.
The city quit putting landscaping in the middle of them due to it not being there an hour later.
We call 'em DUI nets.
For some reason I froze up and drove right through the middle and out the other side....through flower beds and people sitting on benches.
I happened to be wearing a leather jacket with an American flag on the back( shades of Easy Rider ).....as I rode through I hear a man yell' Bloody Yanks!"...[:D]
If Traffic is below a threshold, Traffic Circles save Gas, Wear and Tear on vehicles, and save time for all who pass.
But, when traffic gets dense enough, Everybody gets Ticked Off and things get NASTY!
I hate them when Traffic is heavy, and avoid them.
But when Traffic is light, they are Fun!
Yep the one in Clearwater Beach Fl on the west end of SR 60 is a parking lot.
Just outside Swindon, England, they have a "Magic Roundabout" - is FIVE linked Roundabouts, looks like a Daisy from above...
A Rented Mini Cooper and a Couple Liters of Gas, and You can have Laugh-Out-Loud FUN! For Hours!!!
I learnt how to navigate Roundabouts in Merry Olde: Slot Second, and Mat It! [:D][:D][:D][:D]
Now, about those Numb Motorists who stop at entry, put on blinkers to enter and/or exit: Blast around them, giving the universal digit and a blare of Horns!!!
I hate the people with low IQs that DON'T use the blinker when they exit, it's the law that you have to, and it's also courtesy to do so. I don't know how many countless times I've had to wait for five or six cars to pass before I could go just because some low IQ idiot didn't use the blinker so I can get on in front of them...
I also hate people that uses their horns just to make people think they're more important than what they really are. I find it very narcissistic. And because it's against the law to use it unless it's an emergencyy situation. By are by definition, a criminal. And I hate all criminals
quote:Originally posted by HandLoad
Just outside Swindon, England, they have a "Magic Roundabout" - is FIVE linked Roundabouts, looks like a Daisy from above...
A Rented Mini Cooper and a Couple Liters of Gas, and You can have Laugh-Out-Loud FUN! For Hours!!!
I learnt how to navigate Roundabouts in Merry Olde: Slot Second, and Mat It! [:D][:D][:D][:D]
Now, about those Numb Motorists who stop at entry, put on blinkers to enter and/or exit: Blast around them, giving the universal digit and a blare of Horns!!!
I hate the people with low IQs that DON'T use the blinker when they exit, it's the law that you have to, and it's also courtesy to do so. I don't know how many countless times I've had to wait for five or six cars to pass before I could go just because some low IQ idiot didn't use the blinker so I can get on in front of them...
I also hate people that uses their horns just to make people think they're more important than what they really are. I find it very narcissistic. And because it's against the law to use it unless it's an emergencyy situation. By are by definition, a criminal. And I hate all criminals
Sitting there I could have went, I could have went, really does get irritating. In Oregon either all the bulbs in cars don't work or they are all idiots.
We have several others and they are a piece of cake, they actually do save time from the lights that used to be there.
Whether or not the Person in the Circle is Signalling, You best not join till there is a real space to put Your Blunder Bus! Person might be Signalling since last Tuesday - You gonna Blast on in, Hmmm?
Finally, Not a Crime to use Horns Where I am. Nor am I a "Criminal" until Convicted - might be a Scofflaw, though. Now Who is the Low IQ?
Well, RO, it is a Right turn to get on, and a Right turn to get off, so You are notifying exactly Nobody with the signal!
Whether or not the Person in the Circle is Signalling, You best not join till there is a real space to put Your Blunder Bus! Person might be Signalling since last Tuesday - You gonna Blast on in, Hmmm?
Finally, Not a Crime to use Horns Where I am. Nor am I a "Criminal" until Convicted - might be a Scofflaw, though. Now Who is the Low IQ?
You...
As per the United States Department of Transportation.
It is against the law to use your horn for any purpose to chastise someone...
Plus every State's laws are the same as far as using a blinker, you have to use one every time you make a left turn or a right turn. There's no exceptions, except in a roundabout while entering it, because there is only one way you can go. But after you enter, you can keep on going in circles with the roundabout or you can turn off the roundabout by turning right. So when you are in a roundabout, you don't use a blinker period, but when you're turning right off a roundabout you are obligated by law to use a blinker because you are making a right turn.
just because you don't know the Laws doesn't mean they don't exist. So who has the low IQ now.
People like you are the ones that I read about that gets shot because of somebody else's road rage after they antagonized them. Not a quality of a high IQ person if you ask me
And for the people with low IQ, there's a difference between a convict and a criminal. A criminal is the person that breaks the laws whether they are convicted or not. A convict a person that has been convicted of a crime.
I set up my Vehicles with 100+ Watts High Beams, link in the Low Beams for When the Highs are requested. Then, I cross-link the Horns, so that when I mash the Horn Button, it turns everything on. Don't want a miscreant to mistake which motorist is using them!
Oh, Yeah, the Horns are not OEM! I like Three-Tone FIAMMS. Helps penetrate the mental fog of Those below Me on the IQ scale...
Officer and Gentleman, by Act of Congress.[:D]
Gonna go look on Google Earth. Will report back...
YUP, still there! Much changed after half a century, of course. Very streamlined. Check it out yourself. Zoom in a few miles east of St Louis.
@RO: You probably need to ratchet up Your Hatred a couple notches more!
I set up my Vehicles with 100+ Watts High Beams, link in the Low Beams for When the Highs are requested. Then, I cross-link the Horns, so that when I mash the Horn Button, it turns everything on. Don't want a miscreant to mistake which motorist is using them!
Oh, Yeah, the Horns are not OEM! I like Three-Tone FIAMMS. Helps penetrate the mental fog of Those below Me on the IQ scale...
Officer and Gentleman, by Act of Congress.[:D]
Sounds like you have to ratchet down your hatred level, it's off the scale
No worries there, they don't exist.[;)]
Either your parents forgot to talk to teach you common courtesy, or you weren't paying attention when they did...[V]
I think they're accidents waiting to happen. Hate them.
Try getting in a busy one with an 80,000# truck, aint happening because CAR DRIVERS WON?T LET US IN!! On the double lane ones you have to take both lanes or braindead car drivers will squeeze right beside you forcing you to hit the curb or sideswipe thier *!! Merging, you all know the rules!! The truck the truck you merge in front of the damned truck!! Force him to slow or stop, you?re more important anyway!!!
The only way to enter a traffic cirlcle with traffic with a truck is to cut someone off, if forced to stop before entering it becomes a nightmare because at some point you have to go and that means from a dead stop into traffic bringing the entire circle to a crawl or stop. I forget which state it was but they had to pass a law giving trucks right of way because of this very issue.
Ok, back to being an * [:D]
TURN SIGNALS ARE COURTEOUS
COURTESY IS A SIGN OF WEAKNESS!
I?M BIGGER
I WIN BY DEFAULT
[:D][:D][:D]
Always signal for trucks when they clear me in passing, always give them room at corners and.......Roundabouts!
Better not get close to a truck. They made them so narrow there is no way a large truck cannot take up two lanes.
Lots of trucking and dump trucking companies nearby.
Must have been a fade when they built it.
Daily wrecks there when they opened it up.