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Originally Posted by Bonanza
Kitty -- you are 100% correct!
Regardless of how many Villagers say they love them or whatever, the circles are hazardous. Why, they've even been glorified with the designer name of "round-abouts" (we aren't in England; this is the U. S.). Everyone will write in saying to do this or do that, but the bottom line is you never know what the other guy will do and in most cases, it's hard to guess what we should do! They are much too small to navigate safely and the painted lines instantly show you how to commit murder or suicide; take your pick. They never should have been installed in this community but I guess the developer thought this "eye candy" was a good idea.
I'll say again what I've said before: Our circles are nothing more than unsafe gas guzzlers. Morse and Buena Vista should have gone straight through with perhaps, an occasional traffic light. Villages entering these two main thorofares should have stop signs, just like in any neighborhood in the U. S. That is also what would have made it safe to enter each Village, but no -- they just keep putting in more of the damn circles!
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Years ago I traveled to New Jersey and was confronted with one of these intersections (Round about). I thought they were dangerous then and I still believe they are dangerous. Today all of them that I saw in New Jersey no longer exists. They are standard intersections.