Roundabouts

[Blakeyboy1]

They have been using roundabouts in Park City, Utah for a while now (http://www.roundaboutsusa.com/parkcity.html). I have spent a lot of time in London (and greater Western Europe) and the locals seem to loathe traffic lights and blame them for all London traffic woes (not totally true but...) and they love their roundabouts. Then again (and this is important) they are familiar with them and know how to use them. Whenever I am in the Park City/Deer Valley area the roundabouts experiences are NOT the same experience you have in Europe. In fact the experience is plagued with near misses and freaked out people without a clue what to do. As Sean said above the people of Hawaii cannot merge (neither can the people of Utah). I think the roundabout idea is just a trendy and cool idea that in reality just does not work in many applications. It is like randomly adding driving on the other side of the road on various streets.

-Blake



Blakeyboy1