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Seriously, americans need to learn about these.
by tpmx 3y ago
Seriously, americans need to learn about these.
- seabird 3y agoWe have plenty of them. They're usually pretty miserable because your average American driver is a fucking moron and they're best not deployed unless there's a safety reason to do so.
- spogbiper 3y agowe have tons of them where i live in south florida
- eesmith 3y agoThere are differences between a modern roundabout and the broader category of circular junction. The De Soto Plaza in in Coral Gables, FL, built in 1925, as seen at https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7450124,-80.275242,3a,75y,75.83h,88.51t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sK2JbGSKQ6f1O9BDRq4mzqA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7450124,-80.275242,3a,75y,75... is not a modern roundabout. Granada Blvd does not indicate a yield-to-enter, while the others streets have stop signs. I think that one should also have splitter islands. (Video of its history at https://archive.org/details/Did_You_Know_-_DeSoto_Plaza_Fountain https://archive.org/details/Did_You_Know_-_DeSoto_Plaza_Foun... .) I think Cocoplum Circle might count as a roundabout? https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7059315,-80.2608362,3a,75y,193.27h,78.34t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sanOfSMCXwFUwiK_7T8X8IQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7059315,-80.2608362,3a,75y,1... There are also "traffic calming circles", which are not roundabouts. "Traffic calming circles should not be confused with roundabouts, which are designed to handle much higher traffic volumes and reduce vehicle delay." - https://www.sfbetterstreets.org/find-project-types/pedestrian-safety-and-traffic-calming/traffic-calming-overview/traffic-circles/ https://www.sfbetterstreets.org/find-project-types/pedestria...
- Minor49er 3y agoAs an American, I can assure you that we have loads of these
- desas 3y agoAs a guy who actually read the article, I can assure everyone else that this American is right > In 2000, the U.S. only had 356 roundabouts. Over the past two decades, that number has grown to over 10,000.
- Y-bar 3y agoLess than half the 25,000 in UK, or just over half the 19,000 in Italy, or almost matching the 15,000 in Spain. It's great news all over that the number is clearly increasing, but still a very long long way to go until it becomes widespread.
- oblio 3y agoTo put things into perspective: 65 million + 60 million + 45 milion = 170 million people, about half of the US population. So 59 000 roundabouts for half the population versus 10 000 in the US. That's a deficit of 90% per capita :-)
- csdreamer7 3y agoIndeed, wasn't until 2011 or so until I saw my first roundabout in the USA. For my other Americans, read the Australian's post above. Can get across an entire town without stopping as a reason to remake our towns with roundabouts.
- candiddevmike 3y agoMy area, and a lot of others I think, are no longer building stop light intersections. Everything new is a roundabout.
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- peterpost2 3y agoFrance has about 30k of them, the UK has about 25k of them and those countries have a fraction of the population of the US. The us does not have loads of them they are few and far between
- parshimers 3y agothe resistance is a problem. there are a few in Pasadena, CA on Los Robles between California and Raymond where it's a roundabout, with stop signs on each entrance. the worst of both worlds.