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Old 01-13-2014, 09:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Bonanza View Post
All the roundabouts (or circles as we used to call them in the old days) are a disaster....While they are lovely to look at nothing can take the place of 4-way stop signs for safety.
But a 4-way stop sign also reduces the capacity of the intersection to a small fraction of that of a circle.

As has been said by others, problems are eliminated if you...yield to both lanes and avoid driving next to others vehicles.