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Old 12-23-2015, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by newguyintv View Post
And just how many people do you think slow down to 20 MPH to enter the traffic circles in TV. Has to be worse if you are starting at 55 instead of 35.
I think the vast majority do. Have you tried to go around these tiny round about faster than 20 mph? You might be able to do 25 tops. any faster than that and you're going to be on two wheels.

Obviously a round about on a road such as this will be much larger than the ones on Morse and Buena Vista. I have lived in places where there are round abouts and they are much bigger than these. It's almost impossible to speed in these round abouts.

The Quezon City Circle in The Philippines is almost a half mile in diameter. Rotaries, as we call them in New England are much larger then the little circles we have in TV.
I would think that the FDOT knows a bit about building a round about on a 55mph road.
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