French traffic engineers love roundabouts. Actually, they are indeed safer that plain intersections. What I despise, though, is that too often building a rounda

French traffic engineers love roundabouts. Actually, they are indeed safer that plain intersections. What I despise, though, is that too often building a roundabout coincides with giving up any effort to try and manage the traffic at intersection. Having heavy traffic in one direction on a national route yielding to cars leaving the parking of a mall, while the other direction flows undisturbed, is not nice at all. Especially if you are on the wrong side of the national route :-)