And in keeping with our border theme, here is an international
roundabout on the German - Netherlands border in Kerkrade,
NL/Herzogenrath, DE.
http://grenzen.150m.com/kerkradeGB.htm
Thanks, BK!
Doug
On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 02:25 AM, bwhyte@... wrote:
> Even in gridded streets roundabout are indeed useful. They do not have
> to be large. where two small residential streets cross here in
> Melbourne, a small roundabout only a few metres across might be
> installed. It eases traffic flow considerably. In LA where two streets
> crossed, one would have stop or give way/yield signs on both its arms
> and the other would flow freely. Or sometimes all 4 arms of the
> intersection would have stop signs. In LA this meant the first car to
> the intersection had right of way. Here in Australia 4 arms with stop
> signs means the first car gets right of way then everything behind him
> also, with everyone else giving way to the right.
> But by adding a roundabout, it allows everyone to slow, and go round,
> coming off where they want. No more cars turning right blocking lanes
> when they give way to through traffic.
>
> Roundabouts are traffic calming measures and might be large ones used
> where major roads meet, like in the posted pictures, or just small
> ones on fairly quiet local streets requiring no more room than the
> streets already used before the roundabout was built.
>
> I recall someone in LA mentioning California didn't have roundabouts
> for some legal reason: fear of crashes when people couldn't use them
> properly, and so the city didn't want the liability.
>
> I believe in France, ie Arc de Triomphe, the roundabout traffic gives
> way to incoming traffic. Hence the infamous gridlocks there.
>
> Here in Australia/NZ, incoming gives way on the right to traffic on
> the roundabout, just as at any other intersection.
>
>
>
> I've seen roundabouts that are no more than a tyre size in diameter
> (one, in Malaysia i think, was just that: a tyre around a pole in the
> middle of the intersection, more of a fender/bumper for the pole, than
> a roundabout!
>
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