B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 01, 2016

I can relate. Ever since they put in that stupid traffic circle in Glens Falls NY my mother and I have had to deal with “nervous mergers”. They should have kept it the way it was with the traffic lights. It’s just getting to downtown more difficult then people decide not to do their shopping there and go to the two Wal-Marts in nearby Queensbury instead.

Roundabouts in countries such as England go clockwise. Since the traffic on this one is going counter-clockwise, they can’t be in England.

In my town they put in a couple roundabouts, and the neighbors weren’t happy. Initially traffic dropped 30% through the intersections, but the accident rate dropped 97%, and the flow rate increased dramatically as no one ever had to stop. Traffic is higher than before, and the accident rate is still virtually nil.

The city has since added more of these, including some heavier traffic intersections, but those did not work well. My conclusion is that they are ideal for low to moderate traffic, poor for heavy traffic.

The problem in the US is most of the roundabouts are to small and they keep putting mounds in the middle covered in bushes so you can’t see all of the traffic in the circle. Plus if you are new to the area you have a harder time knowing where to get out.

Try using roundabouts in southern Spain, they kep right to go all the way around but keep left to take the second exit (straight on), good cardiac exercise.

We have a roundabout at the intersection of Highway 89A and the fair grounds. It works well in light traffic but locks up entirely in heavy traffic. When the fair lets out there have to be four officers directing traffic to prevent fair traffic from shutting out the highway for hours.

not funny

We have a double roundabout at a busy interstate highway/shopping area. Very confusing. Not at all unusual to pick the wrong exit, end up on the interstate with the next exit in 5 miles.

The trick is knowing when to get off.

Cerabooge said,@The Cat and Ape

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They built a traffic circle in my town a few years ago. There is at least 1 accident per day and we’re a small town of 4000. Before that there might have been 1 accident a month……

Roundabouts are just like life…Round and round you go and where you get off NOBODY knows.

Call it morningdriving through the sound andEven in the valley

We have one circle here with a stop light just a couple hundred feet away. Sometimes the traffic backs up through the circle and no one moves. Another circle is so tight that 18-wheelers trailers end up on the sidewalk in the center, you can see the damage to the curbs from their wheel rims.

This reminds me of a humorous event I saw: 3 or 4 wild turkeys came up on a large tree. They were walking in a line, a la follow-the-leader. The one in the lead started following the trunk of the tree around. When she saw the last turkey of the line disappearing around the tree, she started running after her. The one behind her started running to keep up and in a moment all the turkeys were running in a big circle around this tree following each other. I think they might have slowed and started a few times, but I recall they kept this up for several minutes before one of them decided to walk away from the tree and led the others away.

My city has traffic circulitis. There are a lot of interchanges where there are roundabouts on either side of an overpass plus more on nearby streets. I call them “rosary beads.” The Vehicular Mysteries:*Who dreamed this up?*What were they smoking?*Where can we get some?

Roundabouts are one thing I am glad never caught in the US like they did in the UK and Europe

Grew up driving in DC.We have traffic circles within traffic circles sometimes controlled by traffic lights and a few even have traffic tunnels under them.The road plan was designed shortly after the French Revolution.Rumor is, L’Enfant put in traffic circles to thwart possible citizen uprisings.I think of them as symbols of DC gridlock.

He won’t do well in Carmel Indiana!

South of the equator, they go the other way.

OMG! This is TOO funny. . .brings back memories of the first traffic circle I ever encountered. . .in my teens. . .fairly new driver. . .in MASSACHUSETTS. . .Mass and NJ have to have the scariest drivers’ challenges in the US. . .tcs and jug handles. . .

I think this strip is hilarious; roundabouts, not so much…

Stay on the right, enter, go around until you reach the exit you want, take it and continue on your journey. Roundabouts eliminate the need to turn into traffic to make a direction change, thus reducing accidents.

You want to try one of UK magic Roundabouts ( Wiki )

My first encounter with roundabouts was my first time driving in Ireland. It only took a few of them to get the hang of it. Driving in Dublin was a challenge and a half – so roundabouts were only a small part of my concern.

Now I’ve come to like them. I think once enough people get used to them, they’ll work just fine.

I hate traffic circles whatever you call them. I can remember 60 years ago my father all but cursing trying to get through one in Philly. He never cursed around me until I was 18 or so. I had to learn most of those terms from my mother when she got mad. :)

It’s truly amazing how few actually like these damn things; yet at taxpayer’s expense, they are popping up faster than zits on a 13 year old…