<VV> Maps

[Hugo Miller]

Roundabouts. That's the word you're looking for. It is a standing joke 
in England that Americans can't deal with them! But they are great - 
once they become more familiar on roads in the US, drivers will love 
them. Traffic can keep flowing without all the stop-start of an 
intersection.

On 2020-04-06 04:30, Joel McGregor via VirtualVairs wrote:
> They just started installing traffic circles here a few years ago but
> they have quite a few now.  I love them but it does seem like most
> people like to stop for them which completely defeats the purpose.
>
> Joel McGregor
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: VirtualVairs On Behalf Of Mike Kost via VirtualVairs
> Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2020 9:41 AM
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> Maps
>
> One of the things which gets confusing to many people is it seems
> traffic engineers have new ideas on what makes a good intersection. 
> It
> takes several years for those new ideas to make their way into common
> usage and people to start understanding how to use them. The current
> new ideas in the US are the Diverging Diamond which crosses all
> traffic over each other before and after an overpass so that turns
> onto an interstate are not crossing oncoming traffic. The other
> current fad here (common in much of the rest of the world) is the
> traffic circle. Unfortunately many that I see are too small.
>
> Mike Kost
>
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