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Old 06-22-2017, 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by circletrack View Post
Honestly, considering you are never supposed to enter a roundabout as a car is making its way along the inside lane, or drive directly next to a car in the roundabout, I don't think the delays would be that drastic...
The delays would come about because you would in effect be changing all approaching roads to one lane...two lanes of traffic can't enter a one lane roundabout nearly as efficiently. Merging would be forced...at higher volumes this is a disaster. The capacity of the overall system would be damatically reduced. At very low traffic volumes, maybe not much of a problem. At higher traffic volumes comes the disaster.

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