Overview of Modern Roundabouts
Modern roundabouts are the prettiest and safest form of traffic control in the world. Roundabouts slow all vehicles, provide refuges for pedestrians, and are the only traffic control device in which trees can be planted, fountains can bubble or spray, statutes can sparkle into the next century. When constructed as part of new road construction they are cheaper to build than signalized intersections. If used instead of traffic signals they save us all money. Their maintenance cost is almost zero. They require no electricity, no regular tune-ups, no annual replacements of parts, suffer no blackouts and cannot be blown away.
[...] Sen. Kevin Bryant: blog from the backbench | should we consider traffic circles? [...]
[...] Kevin Bryant is also addressing the budget shortfall. His solution to the $250 million shortfall? Traffic circles. I’m not kidding. Modern roundabouts are the prettiest and safest form of traffic control in [...]
there must be records of accidents, how do they compare with traffic signals
Our drivers haven’t figured out “right turn on red” yet. If these things have two lanes, our left lane huggers won’t be able to figure out how to get out of them! On second thought, maybe that would keep them off the other roads, where they usually ride in the left lane beside other cars (in the slow lane) doing the same speed (5 mph UNDER the speed limit!), generally impeding traffic. NOW THERE’S LEGISLATION I WOULD ENDORSE! A 6 point violation for Impeding Traffic! How about it, Senator?
not very bright needs to learn how to use that scroll down thing to the right on the browser. he will see a post along with 47 other posts about the state’s aweful spending habits by kevin. kev’s been screaming, yet not enough are listening