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I've been curious as to why American roundabouts include unnecessary vegetation or a hill in the middle? Why obscure oncoming traffic?
by paulie_a 9y ago
I've been curious as to why American roundabouts include unnecessary vegetation or a hill in the middle? Why obscure oncoming traffic?
- kgwgk 9y agoThe obstruction in the middle also makes the existence of a roundabout more obvious.
- greenpresident 9y agoHere‘s an example of how they are handled in Germany: https://goo.gl/maps/cmLVxuhViyF2 https://goo.gl/maps/cmLVxuhViyF2 The space it requires is not much bigger than the traffic light. That town replaced many of its intersections with roundabouts even in central and older parts of the city. (You might say they went a little overboard with it, looking at the southern limits near that hospital.)
- pjc50 9y agoIf it's a roundabout, the traffic across the roundabout is not actually oncoming, it's the traffic approaching from your left around the roundabout that you need to watch out for.