A Call For Humor!

[xanalog]

Why do people in the US have a problem with roundabouts?
They are safer and cause less congestion than crossroads and junctions with stop signs or traffic lights.

We have these things called "traffic circles" but we are always in a rush to give TAKE the right-of-way, and a 'roundabout' just sounds too British and/or polite.

This one happens to be in LongBeach, CA.
Find a live VidCam of the area and watch the traffic mayhem.

 

[Multicore]

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Might produce interesting acoustic effects depending on weather and other environmental conditions!

 

[jkasch]

Might produce interesting acoustic effects depending on weather and other environmental conditions!

Don’t worry. It meets building codes.

 

[Multicore]

We have these things called "traffic circles" but we are always in a rush to give TAKE the right-of-way, and a 'roundabout' just sounds too British and/or polite.

The most fun to be had, however, is for the British driving in France. France has their entertaining priorité à droite. This is hard enough but with roundabouts it is astonishing. In the UK and any country with sensible road traffic rules, traffic entering the roundabout yields to rotating traffic. Indeed, practically speaking rotating traffic has the obligation to get a move on and out of the roundabout. In France, however, priorité à droite is the default, which means that rotating traffic must yield to entering vehicles. This was such an obvious design fail that it had to change but since the French like to be different in their peculiarly French ways (how they hated white headlights), it took a long time and was inconsistent, leaving the default as I described above but some roundabouts have the sign Vous n’avez pas la priorité as you approach a roundabout. But that's confusing since what really needs to be said is "keep going" to the rotating traffic -- how do they know that entering traffic's default rights are revoked by a sign?

Anyway, it's a barrel of laughs if you don't mind touchy-feely driving. Motorcyclists should be nimble and ready for anything. Cyclists should dismount and push.

 

[Count Arthur]

'roundabout' just sounds too British

Yes.

 

[xray]

We have these things called "traffic circles" but we are always in a rush to give TAKE the right-of-way, and a 'roundabout' just sounds too British and/or polite.
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This one happens to be in LongBeach, CA.
Find a live VidCam of the area and watch the traffic mayhem.

That outer ring looks like the traffic equivalent of a particle collider

 

[Salt]

Enough about roundabout, now please something completely different ....

 

[xanalog]

now please something completely different ....

Be careful what you ask for:

Your turn...

 

[rationaltime]

 

[Salt]

Be careful what you ask for:
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Your turn...

Onion ... cheap and effective...

 

[tengiz]

That’s how it starts… first she stops seeing me, then she “accidentally” locks the doors from the inside. Volvo EX30 is her name, btw.

 

[xanalog]

Onion ... cheap and effective...

Kills the itch protein?

 

[rationaltime]

 

[Audionaut]

 

[lucian]

 

[lucian]

 

[Multicore]

Yes.

Yes.

 

[thewas]

 

[Robin L]

 

[thegeton]

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I've seen worse. Ever been to Johor Bahru Malaysia? I'll see if I can dig up that photo...