Posted by paul on November 23, 2016 at 16:03:42 from (76.77.197.114):
In Reply to: Re: Is it a sign? posted by paul shuler on November 23, 2016 at 11:37:18:
The last decade Minnesota fell in love with round a bouts.
Early ones were too small, but a regular cross road, I can see the benefits and at least am fine with thrm.
But wholly cow, they have 23 different designs of round a bouts, some have off ramps that exit before the bout, and the regional town near me they have a pair of round a bouts next to each other, both are 4 lane, and carry both semi heavy traffic and are the entrances to the malls and shopping district. Oh my gosh, what an egg beater, it is loony! No one knows what to do, and the mix of traffic at rush hour just makes a horrible setup there.
The other dozen or so round a bouts they have in that town, as I say, every one is designed differently, some more oblong, some with off ramps, some are wide some are small. There is no consistency.
And that is what makes it a mess. You can't really learn what to do if you only get there once a month or so, and with every intersection different you don't have time to read all the rules as you approach, get in the proper lane for -this- one, and then watch for traffic and pedestrians from all those possible intersections of such.
Just a mess.
I think truckers like round a bouts. But that is probably because a round a bout is a game of slow motion chicken, and the bigger the vehicle, the more likely you are to win.... I see semis just go through and anyone else needs to stop for them. To be fair, I saw one big truck stop at that twin double lane round a bout and boy, he was stuck there, there was no way for him to get moving again, traffic was non stop.
A lot of these new concepts in traffic control are hard on the average person, much less if we are older and a bit set in our ways.
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