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Originally Posted by Bill14564
I see several roads meeting at a circle. Call it a roundabout, traffic circle, rotary, or that thing I don't want to acknowledge but there are many of them in MA.
Wiki doesn't do pics, they do words and links. However, if you take those words and paste them into Google maps then you get pics like the above... many of them.
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Then our differences are just semantics. I consider a roundabout like what we see in Florida, with marked lanes and the requirement to yield to those in the roundabout. Rotaries are similar and you yield if you have to, but you can also merge. Rotaries are larger than roundabout and a bit more of a free-for-all.
There is actually 1 spot near me that is small, 1 lane and I guess I would consider it a roundabout. In true Massachusetts fashion, it is so poorly designed that semi trucks go over the raised center circle because they can't navigate the curve.
This is it here. What I consider different is the pic in my last post is a free-for-all, room for multiple lanes but nothing marked. It's like Chevy Chase looking at Big Ben in European Vacation. The pic below is only 1 lane so can't go nuts. My point overall is that neither of these would teach Massachusetts drivers the rules of a Villages Roundabout, with lanes and posted rules.
