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This varies per implementation of roundabout. Plenty of the roundabouts I've driven through have stop signs and only allow one car in the roundabout at a time.
by stephengillie 9y ago
This varies per implementation of roundabout. Plenty of the roundabouts I've driven through have stop signs and only allow one car in the roundabout at a time.
Others have been made in places (like a crevasse) where the circle is too small for a city bus to safely traverse - it has to jump the curb every time. The traffic light it replaced was actually slightly safer.
- emodendroket 9y agoI guess if you compare a bad roundabout to an ideal four-way intersection that's true, but in general we can safely say roundabouts have much lower rates of accidents, especially serious ones, than do traditional intersections, despite many drivers' intuition that it should be the other way around.
- pm215 9y agoI would say that if it has stop signs it's not a roundabout -- the concept requires that incoming traffic yields to traffic on the roundabout but need not stop.