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Old 08-31-2012, 01:32 PM
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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?
PS,Hope that fire truck is going more than 35 mph to my house.