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As 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
by desas 3y ago
As 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.