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Old 12-12-2018, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Jazuela View Post
...however it's supposed to be done at the villages clearly isn't working, because if it were, you wouldn't have so many threads with so many hundreds of posts about how everyone is doing it wrong and how they see accidents daily/weekly etc...
Couldn't be more wrong. Online forums are full of complainers, and ToTV is no different. Roundabouts in TV work just fine. Perfect? Of course not. But they function very efficiently overall.
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Originally Posted by Jazuela View Post
...We have stop signs where I live, and if we have a fender-bender during a bad ice storm, it's news.
If you want to replace all the roundabout threads with even worse stop sign threads, you're hinting at the perfect solution. Stop signs (or traffic signals) would lower efficiency and capacity dramatically.