12-27-2008, 06:53 AM
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Originally posted by JWFITZ
Actually, I was in New Zealand a couple years ago during a typhoon and the roundabouts are completely un-drivable in the rain like we've seen. They get full of water and the "round about driving" simply buries everyone's windshields entering the roundabout and it becomes a terrible parking lot, as one could imagine if one thinks about it.
It's worth a thought, an obvious, but not so immediately obvious characteristic.
We drove roundabouts in Australia for 8 years -- wet weather and dry -- and I have never seen this effect.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park