For traffic planners, roundabouts have been huge game changers. Decades of studies show that the introduction of traffic circles greatly improves flow and reduces collisions overall by slowing vehicles down. Another plus is the reduction in greenhouse gases, from fewer idling cars, and increased safety for pedestrians, who have shorter distances to travel. They’re cheaper to maintain than traffic lights and work even during prolonged power outages, such as the kind we experienced recently during Post-Tropical Storm Fiona.
Those are so great!
Not in places where it snows
Please expand on that
Take this:
Add several weeks of freezing weather and snow accumulation and you get this:
They are kind of similar to their Iceland neighbours I think, who also are full traffic circle
Iceland loves them some traffic circles: easy to maintain as they don’t need power lines digged through the freakin’ basalt. But they have traffic lights too – and even some with heart-shaped indicators. It’s a little quaint; and from my short stays in the country, it just kinda fits.
I absolutely love driving there
They also make great skidpads when there isn’t traffic about.
I love roundabouts. There are a lot of them near where I live. I really hate people who live near them and mover bother to learn to use them properly. It should be part of the driving test along with merging onto major highways and 4-way stop rules. Traffic works really well if everyone follows the rules.
