Red Headed Stranger
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I'm not a fan of roundabouts but I don't hate them either. One plus side is that someone can't stop and text like they do at a stop sign or stop light.
Traffic Circle or Roundabout
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Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
They work well in low traffic situations, heavy traffic, not so much.
Lineandinitial
Legio patria nostra
This makes more sense that a roundabout with stop lights
browned_out
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Last night I approached the brand new rotary on my feeder route, as I got to the line there were cars entering to my left, so I stop and wait for them to pass so I can go. As these cars are almost to my entrance, guy in the lead car just stops in the rotary and starts motioning me to cut in 
I wave him on as there our at least 6 cars behind him.
I wave him on as there our at least 6 cars behind him.
rod
Retired 22 years
Around here Rotary is the name of a service club .
rod
Retired 22 years
The Dallas High Five?
rod
Retired 22 years
It must be a regional thing---"roundabout" might have been too hard for them to spell.
rod
Retired 22 years
Something like a "reach around"?
bottomups
Bad Moon Risen'
Had a Mazda RX-7 back in the 80's. Loved that engine and car. Bought a boat so needed to trade it in for a truck.
rod
Retired 22 years
How stupid are the people in your town?
Lineandinitial
Legio patria nostra
PoirotAtUPS
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It’s simple - Americans are used to simple traffic directions and this confuses them. It shouldn’t but it does.
PoirotAtUPS
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Ending Polio
www.rotary.org
oldngray
nowhere special
Summary:
1.Roundabouts are more modern and efficient than rotaries.2.A gridlock is more common in a rotary style circular intersection.
3.Rotaries have bigger circular intersections and offer longer weaving distances.
4.There are fewer accidents (lower crash rates) happening in roundabout intersections than in rotaries.
5.The intersecting streets in a roundabout are usually narrower.
Difference Between Rotary and Roundabout
Rotary vs Roundabout Many folks think that when they see a circular intersection, they always regard it as a roundabout. Well, this is not entirely true as some of these so-called roundabouts (sometimes written
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I had a Mazda rotary pickup truck and then a Mazda cosmo.....wonderful vehicles....smooth engines of course....both did over 100 mph with no strain on the motor....the rx 7s were a simply brilliant car...a friend of mine had an early rx7 and put almost 300,000 miles on it with zero issues....important to keep the oil level up so the rotors were lubricated....
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