• slingstone@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    They’ve started using traffic circles in my state. They work sooo much better than traffic lights at intersections.

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          Traffic circles are not real roundabouts. They are just a road that have a circle shape. For example traffic circles often have traffic lights.

          Roundabouts are traffic circles. But they have to be just a circle with “give way” at the entrance. No stop signs, no traffic lights.

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        I love roundabouts, but goddamn are they annoying when you’re stuck in a route starvation situation. I’ve had bad days when I’m stuck for close to 5 minutes at one near my house depending on time of day and approach route.

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          8 hours ago

          There’s quite a few roundabouts near us that have traffic lights that only function during busy traffic. Usually only installed on the busy sides.

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            21 hours ago

            It’s already a 2/2.5 lane roundabout, but if you’re on entrance 3, while 1 and 2 are busy as hell, you may not have a window to safely go through.

            This roundabout is at a major intersection just off of a freeway and between like 3 different shopping centers, so it’s awful to go through at rush hour. I’ve gotten good at eyeballing windows that scare the piss out of my wife in that roundabout.

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            21 hours ago

            At least at a long red I can run it safely if there’s no one around (I had to do that at my last apartment complex because the secondary road had stupid long lights overnight, and mine regularly skipped my direction).