Hatunen wrote on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:42:41 -0700:
??>> Alan S wrote:
??>>> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 07:13:39 -0400, "J. Clarke"
??>>> wrote:
??>>>
??>>>> Alan S wrote:
??>>> Of course not. What I do contest is that four-way stop
??>>> signs as a means of intersection control is a safer means
??>>> than either roundabouts
??>>
??>> The US has roundabouts in many locations. Regardless of
??>> their safety I detest the things to the point that I will
??>> go out of my way to avoid one.
H> In the US roundabouts seem to operate differently from those
H> in the UK (and, I presume, Australia). I can't speak for all
H> US roundabouts, of course, but the ones I've seen have stop
H> signs at the entrance to the roundabout. And they seem to be
H> used mostly on residential streets.
H> I have a friend at Cambridge UK who scares me half to death
H> when he uses one of those little roundabouts built into a
H> normal street intersection with a center about a meter or so
H> across and makes a left turn barely slowing down.
I have not seen many roundabouts in my area but one that I tend
to go thro' a lot in Gaithersburg, MD has yield signs and no
stop signs. I think that is the case for others I have
encountered but I don't recall seeing any in California.
James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
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