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I hate them. Sitting around waiting for a space I can fit into without being hit while a steady flood of cars blasts by. Feels like it takes forever. At least with a light, I know that eventually I'm going to get a chance to go.
The number 1 complaint at an airport in the US was long wait times for baggage, often 15 minutes or more of standing around waiting.
So they moved flights further away from the baggage carousel. Roughly 15-20 minutes of walking away.
The complaints magically disappeared....
This feels like the same thing to me. Plus the traffic flying by without room for you is more often than not you in the future. At some point you benefit from that, although I certainly empathize with your frustration.
Roundabouts can work great in some areas. A large downside to them is their large footprint, you need a lot of space to fit one in. Because of that you find them more in rural/city outskirt areas with lower volume traffic, just because there is more area to fit them in. There are 2 or 3 intersections in my town that desperately need them, but the rest of the lights are just fine. You can't really put roundabouts in a lot of downtown areas. One thing I really like about them is that they deter speeding. Putting them near school areas close to each other will make the drivers slow down in a way that green lights just don't.
Yes. Everyone knows this.
Clearly, not enough of the 'right people' know this in the US.
That's cool and all, but a roundabout requires that the carbrain has at least 1 working braincell and, in my town? Yeah, you don't see many.
A roundabout needs the people using it to know what's a turning light, when and how to leave them, when and how to enter them... A roundabout is too complex for a carbrain that rarely matches a 5 years old kid brain.
These are the kinds of things people said to block roundabouts from replacing traffic lights in my town, and now that they have been installed, people figured it out and everything works better than before.
I arrived in this town 9 years ago. The roundabouts were already here. People will still fail to understand the basics of a roundabout, like: I can't know you want to exit it if you don't use your turning lights. They still pretend that the ones inside the roundabout stop so they let them enter it instead of just waiting for a gap and enter it. And, of course, they will always want to leave the roundabout from the inner lane (without turning lights obviously) and will get angry if you don't stop to let them leave even tho you are in the outer lane.
Believe me, carbrains here are not very intelligent.
What about roundabouts with traffic lights
I bet you haven't had the displeasure of using Spanish roundabout, or a roundabout with a crossing in the middle and traffic lights everywhere.
They have those in Paris without the red light. It's a nightmare.
Have you tried traffic lights 30m AFTER the exit of a roundabout, with a red time long enough to block the whole roundabout?
Awful design. Few places round here do that and just cause a backup on the roundabout itself
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