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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Suppose a fire truck has to go through 6 or more roundabouts to get to your house. That means it has to speed up and slow down 6 or more times from about 5 miles per hour to 35mph? That wastes precious minutes. The same for ambulance and police. It won't affect me but I was just wondering if anyone has ever given any thought to this.
I guess you could say that emergency vehicles have problems with traffic slowing them down all the time. So this is just another obstacle they have to get around?
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Without roundabouts those intersections would be four way stop or traffic lights. I think the roundabouts are faster, and safer, to negotiate and i think the engineers that designed our traffic system took this into consideration.