I'll take redlight cameras over traffic circles anyday.
Dave2, you have many traffic circles over there in Germany? Do they work well?
Minnesota started putting in single lane traffic circles about five years ago and the jury is still out on them. The idea was to reduce the number of fatal high speed T-bone collisions with more low speed no-injury fender-benders without the cost and inconvienience of a stoplight or 4-way stop sign on a rural high speed highway.
We have four traffic circles in our area. The one in a residential area is fine. It is probably un-neccesary except to teach the public what a traffic circle is. The three on 60 MPH two lane highways are white knuckle deals.
At first too many semi trucks drove straight through the center of the circles. One with a long trailer got stuck in the mud half way through the middle and blocked off the entire intersection. The state then put ten foot high dirt mounds in the centers to force everyone to drive around in the circle. Now you can't see for more than 1/4 of the circle in either direction. Younger folks have learned to park nearby, sit in lawn chairs and watch all the near misses and horn honking.
You Europeans must be better drivers than we are here, or at least are better than I am. I'll take a regular intersection with redlight camers over these traffic circles.
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