01-24-2007, 07:49 PM
Aloha all,
I lived in England from birth to twenty-three years old. I remember riding with my stepfather in his Zephyr 6 along the A1 ( London to Edinborough ), a 350mile long, four lane road without clover leaf overpasses. There was a roundabout to handle almost every intersection .These roundabouts were not small. The diameter of an effective roundabout is at least twice the width of the road ( If only there were no lots adjacent to highway 130- - - - Sigh!- - - Lets not go there ), and that’s just the landscaped circular area in the middle. Drivers pass quickly through the roundabout when there is no traffic entering from the side road, and have plenty of room for merging when the traffic is heavy. After the experience of merging at the Pahoa end of the Kea’au bypass the roundabouts would be quite tolerable. There are thousands of roundabouts in Britain. Hitch-hikers like them because they slow down ALL the traffic enough for it to be easier for drivers to pull off the road safely.
Of course, we would not need more, faster, wider, straighter, smoother roads ( maybe with high quality cats eyes! ), if we drove a lot less. Mmmmmmmm- - - - How could we manage to pull that off? A hui hou.
I lived in England from birth to twenty-three years old. I remember riding with my stepfather in his Zephyr 6 along the A1 ( London to Edinborough ), a 350mile long, four lane road without clover leaf overpasses. There was a roundabout to handle almost every intersection .These roundabouts were not small. The diameter of an effective roundabout is at least twice the width of the road ( If only there were no lots adjacent to highway 130- - - - Sigh!- - - Lets not go there ), and that’s just the landscaped circular area in the middle. Drivers pass quickly through the roundabout when there is no traffic entering from the side road, and have plenty of room for merging when the traffic is heavy. After the experience of merging at the Pahoa end of the Kea’au bypass the roundabouts would be quite tolerable. There are thousands of roundabouts in Britain. Hitch-hikers like them because they slow down ALL the traffic enough for it to be easier for drivers to pull off the road safely.
Of course, we would not need more, faster, wider, straighter, smoother roads ( maybe with high quality cats eyes! ), if we drove a lot less. Mmmmmmmm- - - - How could we manage to pull that off? A hui hou.