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Them roundabouts be weird. I think I learned a few years ago that you're not supposed to change lanes while in the roundabout, generally, if it's like 2 lanes or less -- get into the right lane before entering the roundabout. Best part is they work when the power goes out.
 

Charmonium

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I'm so glad they're putting a round-about in the most effed-up intersection in my town. It's going to be much better. The new one is probably 1/8th of a mile from the first round-about in my town, and that was a huge success. Still, ignorant fools complain about roundabouts and don't know how they work.
We used to have a circle near my house but it caused too many accidents so they replaced it with a light. Circles are ok if you don't have a lot of traffic, but if you do, it can take forever to try to merge, especially if you're not coming in on the main road. So that forces people to try to insert themselves into traffic at times when they really shouldn't. Those things make me nervous as hell.
 

Possessed Freak

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Pish, traffic circles. How much room does that intersection take. Every block you have that instead of a light? What happens when there is a lot of traffic? How easy is it for an 18 wheeler to merge onto the circle?
 

CZroe

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Pish, traffic circles. How much room does that intersection take. Every block you have that instead of a light? What happens when there is a lot of traffic? How easy is it for an 18 wheeler to merge onto the circle?

As easy as a car. When there's an opening, there's an opening. Once the 18-wheeler is partially in, it's in and must be yielded to just the same. Just like pulling into traffic from a side street, yielding to traffic in the circle does not mean you can't pull out unless it is completely empty and no one will have to slow down when they catch up to you.
 

Gryz

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Them roundabouts be weird. I think I learned a few years ago that you're not supposed to change lanes while in the roundabout, generally, if it's like 2 lanes or less -- get into the right lane before entering the roundabout. Best part is they work when the power goes out.
Of course you are allowed to change lanes. Especially on the larger ones. You are even supposed to change lanes. A good rotonde/roundabout/rotary/circle can have 3 or even 4 lanes. Great fun.

Suppose you need to go 3/4 around. You are then supposed to go immediately to the interior lane when you enter the roundabout. Then while driving, you should slowly "fan out". By the time you are approaching your exit, you should be at the most exterior lane.

Look at the blue line in this picture:


When I took my drivers-lessons, I used to live 200 meters from a large roundabout (3-4 lanes, 6 exits). I love roundabouts. The real fun ones are the roundabouts that have different rules of preference ! Normally "people from the right" have preference (in my country). But on roundabouts they changed that. Once you are on, you have the right-of-way. And the newcomers have to stop. But there are some very old roundabouts in my country, where the old rule holds true. On those roundabouts the newcomers, who come from the right, have right of way. And the people on the roundabout have to stop. These roundabouts have lights at the entrances, or else the roundabout could get congested easily. (It still happens a few times per year). I think we have only a few of these left in my country.

I guess they have the same situations in France too. Paris has lots of crazy roundabouts too.

This one also seems great fun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)


I love roundabouts. I don't mind driving a few extra rounds when traffic is really heavy. Just for fun.
 
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mikeymikec

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The idea of driving around the rest of the continent mainly freaks me out when I think about going the "wrong way" around a roundabout.

Yea, but they call those things "Rotaries" in New England. I got stink-eye when I referred to it as a roundabout.

Shouldn't they be called a "freedomabout" or something? How about a 'New Roundabout'?
 

Charmonium

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The story in the post is about this which seems to be legit.

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KMFJD

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The story in the post is about this which seems to be legit.

that's a great website...



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