Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Five Corners, ME times three<br/>
Date: Jan 25, 2004 @ 20:29<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-466739492">Jesper asked:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Don&#39;t they make roundabouts in the US?<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>They aren&#39;t very common at all here, except in Washington, D.C., which, after<br/>
all, was designed by a Frenchman!<br/>
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When they do occur, they are never called &quot;roundabouts,&quot; but rather &quot;circles&quot; or<br/>
&quot;traffic circles.&quot;  The usual reason is to contain some sort of monument or<br/>
other ornament, and almost never to serve the flow of traffic.  Lee Circle in<br/>
New Orleans would be a prime example of the monumental sort.<br/>
<br/>
You must remember that the typical American city is laid out in a rectangular<br/>
grid.  Therefore, circles would be more of a hindrance to the flow of traffic<br/>
than a help.<br/>
<br/>
Mexico, on the other hand, has quite a devotion to circles, both as sites for<br/>
monuments and as traffic-flow devices.<br/>
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Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>