
02-12-2013, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by CFrance
Be thankful you are not driving in one of the big European cities built around plazas or squares, with five or more streets feeding into a roundabout. If you don't know which lane feeds to which street, you could be driving around in there for weeks. On top of that, in some of them the rule is that people in the RAB must yield to anyone entering the RAB. You can watch this in action from the top of the Arche de Triomphe. Inside the crazy Arc de Triomphe roundabout in Paris Shocking Traffic - YouTube Frequently the result is... anarchy.
TV's roundabouts are pretty easy once you think of it as an intersection. I was a skeptic at first, but now I'm a believer.
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Thanks for posting the video. I noticed the lanes are not marked in the road. How is that possibly safe to navigate? Don't think I'll be driving there.
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