Junglie

Probably about 10% of all roundabouts. And it's usually the huge ones, or ones with a stupid number of exits, and more often than not the ones that lead from a single carriageway to a main trunk road.

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cornmancer

They're there, but no one likes them because they suck.

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We've got a bunch of roundabouts in a neighboring city and they're ****in awesome.

We have an entire highway that uses them. What used to take 15 minutes to drive through now takes 5.

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bradulator

+1

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Eastwinn

the annapolis area has tons.

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Crazyedd123

Also, American road layouts tend to be very grid-like in their design.
That's probably where we got the term 'block' from.

But in England, it's very loosely laid out, more like a spider-web.
I think the round-abouts were a necessity because the web-like layout meant that sometimes 5 roads would meet at a junction, and it would be very difficult to go between these roads in a grid-like layout, like in America.
Just my hypothesis.

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Sociopedal vs. sociofugal spacial arrangements. Some cities are designed around major landmarks/economic or political hubs and in that way avoid a grid and tend to separate groups of people by keeping some further away from the "centers" (sociofugal). Other cities are built on a more consistent grid that tends to make connecting people across all parts of the city easier (sociopedal).

It's the same concept behind sitting at a round table vs. a rectangular one at a meeting. At a rectangular one, there is one person who is the focus and commands the meeting, so the further you are from that person, the less power you have (sociofugal). A circular table has no focal point and the control/involvement over discussion is evenly distributed (sociopedal).

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DukeDeRox

There are 4 here. They help traffic but no one in America knows how to use them. Therefore I nearly die a lot.

jimivancobain

There are a bunch where my friends live in Indiana and only one I know of where I live. I like them seeing as I understand the purpose of a yield sign and that they give me the option to not stop, which I think is great

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jambi_mantra

Lol murcans r dumb

Roundabouts are easy, and make traffic flow so much more than traffic lights. Fucking hate how every junction here is controlled by lights, I spend a lifetime idling.

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I love roundabouts, and I'm murican.

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shavorules42

There's a quaint little roundabout out in the countryside on the way to my cousin's house and it's never a problem because it's never busy. I've never had any problems with 4-way stops by the way.

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TheChaz

Roundabouts are okay. They make a lot of sense sometimes.

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K!d_MeTaL

In my city\town we got a roundabout. There are a lot of crashes, like a ridiculous amount haha

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Very common in Maryland. I hate them. Pieces of shit.

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I just drove around one in Nashville, but I think that there is only like one in the QC, where I live.

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