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Old 12-23-2013, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by lightworker888 View Post
I still don't see how a roundabout would work in this configuration when you have the golf cart paths and the roadway intersecting. There is no merging safely or easily into the roundabout at that crossing as I see it. If there is one lane, then are the carts and cars behind each other? Maybe it could work if there was an adjacent cart lane and the one car lane. Perhaps that is what you were thinking of. Just pondering........

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The carts and the cars would use the roundabout together. Carts would be coming off the cart paths into the roundabout, and cars would be coming off Colony into the roundabout. It would work just like any other roundabout in TV, except it's a smaller (private?) road, so carts can be on the road and in the roundabout legally. If you drive on Colony, you are already sharing that road with carts, just like roads in neighborhoods that don't have diamond lanes. So no need for a different lane for carts.

Basically, the roundabout would work like a four-way stop sign except that it keeps traffic moving faster and in all one direction.

It's not the cheapest solution, but cheaper than a bridge or tunnel. I would also be in favor of a traffic signal if its timing were right so as not to back traffic up.
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