Posted by NCWayne on January 28, 2014 at 06:56:43 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: Road quirks posted by jon f mn on January 28, 2014 at 06:35:25:
I can"t say I"ve been anywhere as bad as you describe, even in downtown Charlotte, but in town there are a lot of one way streets, etc that often require going around the block to get somewhere. As far as a quirk, I don"t know if you"d call a traffic circle a quirk, but that seems to be the latest fad around here. Funny thing is they tend to put them in places like parking lots where there is no "traffic" flow that needs to be maintained, which is supposed to be the main reason for putting them in. Too they put them in around shopping centers, and other places where tractor trailer trucks have to be able to get in and out to deliver goods to the stores. In those cases they make the radius of the circle so tight that a trucker will have no choice but to run all over the middle of the think to get through it because his turning radius is tighter than that of the circle. To make matters even worse they waste tons of money putting them in out in the middle of nowhere, where a regular intersection worked just fine for 60 plus years. In those cases they"re usually on a main road that used to have a flashing yellow light and a side road that had a stop sign. All that causes is for the folks on the main road, that always had right of way before, now have to slow down to negotiate the stupid circle vs driving right on through the original intersection.
Having been to Europe I"ve seen traffic circles in many places, and have seen them actually work....Problem is, bad as I hate to say say it, I think those folks have a lot more common sense when it comes to driving around one than most folks here in the US do....because there are many around here that don"t know how to use one without making a complete stop to turn...just like they did at the intersection.....
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