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I thought Americans called them "turning circles"

• zamadatix 2y ago
  Depends where and who you're talking to. Overall though, I'd say it's probably most often roundabout, traffic circle, and rotary (in that order) and I haven't heard much else. And yes, they are different things to traffic nerds, but I mean places (particularly in the NE like Massachusetts) just call them all rotaries regardless what the traffic department teaches https://www.mass.gov/info-details/what-are-roundabouts https://www.mass.gov/info-details/what-are-roundabouts. Of course this could just be banter, in which case: absolutely not, we tout our motors through circular-wirculators just like anybody else!
  • joecool1029 2y ago
    In NJ we have traffic circles which are larger, much higher speed, and consequentially much more dangerous. They have been re-engineering them in recent years to be more like roundabouts but it used to be you could slam around one of them doing 55mph or so without stopping or slowing much to enter (until it backed up). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_circles_in_New_Jersey https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_circles_in_New_Jerse...