[thechat] No Roundabouts In Japan?
Erika Meyer
emeyer at lclark.edu
Wed Sep 10 17:04:22 CDT 2003
>roundabout == traffic circle?
A roundabout is like a round intersection with no stop sign... you go
around and veer off. They IMO are way way better than 4 way stops
(especially when driving stick). But Americans tend to react to them
much as we react to the metric system... "oooh! it makes too much
sense! I am not used to it! I can't deal with it!"
Roundabouts have fewer accidents than 4-way stops, and when there are
accidents they are generally less severe (not like when someone
drives 50 mph straightaway thru a red light).
On the rare occasion an American city builds a roundabout, it usually
comes with a big educational campaign on how to use it. And everyone
gets worried and confused.
traffic circles can be a lot of things... I don't think they are
quite the same but don't care enough to do a google search.
E
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