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Inexplicably, the ones in the Bay Area are often installed with stop signs, which makes the point of a roundabout rather mysterious.
by gumby 3y ago
Inexplicably, the ones in the Bay Area are often installed with stop signs, which makes the point of a roundabout rather mysterious.
- kazinator 3y agoRemoving the middle area of the intersection has a safety benefit over the stop signs. Some drivers habitually ignore stop signs. Since it is a physical barrier, those drivers won't ignore the removed middle of the intersection, unless they are drunk, and in that situation it's unlikely two will do that at the same time, where we would have a fatality.
- bertil 3y agoYou are meant to give priority to the vehicles in the roundabouts. A stop sign forces a two-second pause over yielding. I’m not sure that’s a big hindrance, and given how drivers barely mark stops and ignore yield signs, that might be the only way to get drivers to actually look if it’s free before they go on the roundabout. The point is always to avoid frontal shocks by limiting intersecting paths and having instead merging lanes. Even with stop signs, those roundabouts do that.