07-27-2013, 01:47 AM
Is it a round about or a bypass?
If it is a traffic circle, they work just dandy when there is no traffic. If there is even moderate traffic, they cause a great big snarl, and if traffic is steady from one direction, then nobody else can get onto the roundabout.
They tend to send a lot of traffic put onto surface roads as people try to get past them when they can't actually get onto them and through them, so they make their away around in the residential areas.
In Scotland, they finally put traffic lights into their traffic circles in populated areas, trying to get the snarl under control.
But hey, they are perfectly fine when there is nobody else on the road. Oh, except that the government that puts them in tends to put them in too small for big trucks to make the diameter of turn, so the trucks have to run up over the curb in order to get through the circle.
Lots of fun ahead for Pahoa, I think.
If it is a traffic circle, they work just dandy when there is no traffic. If there is even moderate traffic, they cause a great big snarl, and if traffic is steady from one direction, then nobody else can get onto the roundabout.
They tend to send a lot of traffic put onto surface roads as people try to get past them when they can't actually get onto them and through them, so they make their away around in the residential areas.
In Scotland, they finally put traffic lights into their traffic circles in populated areas, trying to get the snarl under control.
But hey, they are perfectly fine when there is nobody else on the road. Oh, except that the government that puts them in tends to put them in too small for big trucks to make the diameter of turn, so the trucks have to run up over the curb in order to get through the circle.
Lots of fun ahead for Pahoa, I think.