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Originally Posted by Bonanza
[B][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][CENTER][SIZE="4"]Well, your praying won't work and neither will mine, unfortunately.
However . . . I have never been anywhere else in the country
where we have a mass of these stupid,
gas guzzling, accident causing circles.
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I've been here eight years and can't recall a lot accidents in the roundabouts. I experience little trouble with them, perhaps because I get into the proper lane prior to reaching the roundabout for my destination leaving it. I yield to any traffic already in it to my left. My only close calls occur when someone either through ignorance or arrogance insists on going all the way round in the outside lane, thereby cutting off those navigating properly or those who don't understand what the YIELD signs mean at the entrance to the roundabout. So, anticipating those two roundabout errors allows me to smoothly go where I wish without drama.
As far as making Morse and Buena Vista through streets with stop signs or lights, I think that would create other problems you may not anticipate. Speed limit on those roads is 35. I am constantly passed by people going 45 or faster. If they had a clear shot without roundabouts, imagine what the speed would be. Also, especially in the high season, imagine how traffic would back up inside villages trying to get out onto those main roads. Again, just look at Morse between 466 and Rio Grande between January and May.
The truth is the roundabouts work. It's the drivers who won't follow the simple rules of navigating them that create the problems. And don't blame age. My 91 year old mother lives here and drives them daily without problems. She understands the rules. It isn't hard.