On the roundabout

[Bob Orts]

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Originally posted by DTisme

Sorry - don't really see the difference.

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Traffic Circles are not Roundabouts. Roundabout function in a very specific way and that functioning is by far the best method of traffic control at an intersection. That is a given and undisputed fact.

But the slight of hand magic trick is many Traffic Circles started out as Roundabouts but failed. As they failed, additional measures or design features had to be installed to correct the problem and as a result they changed from Roundabouts to Traffic Circles. Since they are no longer technically Roundabouts, you can't use them as examples of Roundabout and have to use them as examples of Traffic Circles. Notice how only some Roundabouts are mentioned even though more Roundabouts have been constructed. That’s because if the Roundabout was a failure and changes had to be made to avoid a total screw-up at that location, everyone claims you can’t use it as an example because it’s no longer a Roundabout, even though that was what it was initially, and it is technically a Traffic Circle. So, you can’t argue about the negatives of Roundabouts because there are no bad Roundabouts, only bad Traffic Circles (it’s all taken care of through the magical name change game).