An elongated crosswalk with a rest area, brilliant!
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Has anyone driven on the Roundabout in Swindon U.K.? It is most inyeresting!
Swindon's Magic, an Insane 6-Circle Roundabout [[dangerousroads.org)
In New Jersey when I was younger we called them traffic circles, and they were placed in all sorts of high-traffic intersections [[think of a hypothetical intersection between Telegraph and Woodward and you get the idea). These all were nightmares to merge into and to leave, and have pretty much all been cut through or turned into freeway-type interchanges.
The ones around here I'm most familiar with [[along 14-Mile and Maple in West Bloomfield) work pretty well because they're the intersections of two-lane roads and not major highways. They do save time, especially if you're making the equivalent of a left turn.
Which means that, having grown up in New Jersey in the 60s and learning to drive in the early 70s, with tons of circles, I have the advantage. The circles around here are super easy compared with one at the intersection of two three-lane state highways and a fairly major county road.
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I remember all the "Jug Handles" in New Jersey for making left turns.
https://bestofnj.com/features/entert...ry-jughandles/
Not sure what it's called but, we were driving on Big Beaver and next thing you know, the lanes shifts and we were facing cars coming off of 75 and traffic opposite of Big Beaver. After the light turned green, we shifted back going on to BB. Glad I wasn't driving. :eek:
The first roundabout I ever encountered in my life was in Boston, somewhere in the mid 80s, early in the morning, during rush hour traffic. We must have gone around it a dozen times trying to get over to make a right turn. Turn signal on, MI plates, no one cared. I haven't complained about MI drivers since.
Hahaha.... and the Bostonians are a tough group. They will lay on their horn and flip you off making it worse for us out-of-towners trying to navagate thru it. If I could upload the video we took 30 years ago {girls road trip}, driving thru one of them, I would. Funny and scary at the same time.
I wonder if they would also help with the dragster / donuts problem that seems to be a big problem on Detroit's wide avenues. There must be dozens of intersections on the big radials that would benefit from this type of traffic calming.
That's the newest trend in "traffic safety"; the "diverging diamond". There is now one on 14 and I75 and soon will be on 12 and I75 as well as the one you mentioned on Big Beaver. Touted to be bigger, better safer than the OLD roundabout style. These things get touted like laundry detergent now...
FWIW, no roundabouts here in Las Vegas. Traffic moves pretty well without them, in my 37 years of being here says.
Roundabouts are counterintuitive to a lot of people because we are used to giving right of way to the right at a 4-way-stop but in a roundabout you give right of way to the car to your left.
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That's because no one lives out there, Ray.
Current population is 2.5 million. How many in Detroit?????
Roundabouts work if everyone knows the rules and follows them but problem is, everybody doesn’t. When I’m riding my motorcycle, I avoid roundabouts because my motorcycle and I are both vintage and irreplaceable.