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When my wife and I moved to Bend, Oregon from Italy, I was really shocked to see how much the city had embraced roundabouts. I hadn't expected to see any in the
by davidw 3y ago
When my wife and I moved to Bend, Oregon from Italy, I was really shocked to see how much the city had embraced roundabouts. I hadn't expected to see any in the US, let alone more than 20 of them throughout the city.
Not quite sure what the exact history was, but they realized a few years back that they cost less and work pretty well.
- Moru 3y agoSpoke to a taxi driver here in town, he was pretty tired of them. Our small town has 70+, he had counted them... But they do make trafic smoother if placed right. Here however they use them instead of the normal highway crossings with elevated or lowered access roads. As you say, they cost much less and lowers the accidents a lot. But they are not fuel efficient on 80 km/h roads where you have to stop every 500 m because of another roundabout.