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Originally Posted by Cathy H
For many years it was known the villages circles are not well designed for the volume and speed of the drivers, but they keep building them the same way anyway in the new areas. That alone tells you how it is here.
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I posted this
just for fun, not as a serious criticism of our roundabouts. IMO our roundabouts
can work well. They
were designed for our volume of traffic.
The answer to the roundabout critics lies in drivers driving the "engineered" speed and following the very well done traffic signs. Dumbing down is not the way to go.
Lots of people suggest one-lane roundabouts. Can you imagine the angst of merging two lanes of traffic into one lane roundabouts? Many studies have been performed by transit engineers that demonstrate traffic circles as the fastest method for transiting intersections. Traffic lights are next with four-way stops dead last.