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#16 | RE: Turbo roundabout datum

Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:55 pm (Last edited: Fri Jan 05, 2024 6:57 pm)

Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #14
Zitat von Mr. 36654 im Beitrag #12
Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #10
Zitat von andygriff im Beitrag #4
So, in my professional life I teach and lecture on security related issues, in a field where the UK has been a world leader and where the US has only recently started to make improvements, along the lines that the UK, successfully, introduced 40 years ago.

The first roundabout or rotary we used on the motorcycle was around 40 years ago in the North East US. Don't remember if it was New York, Connecticut or Massachusetts.

This last fall we were entering LaCrosse Wisconsin on a two lane road to see a giant beer 6 pack.
I saw we were 5 or 10 miles out and I was worried about Debbie's sore clutch hand causing problems with all the stop lights and stop signs. Turns out they were almost done with building a lot of rotaries through town. I think we only had to stop once.

Was the 6 Pack at the old Heilman's Brewery?

Didn't you and Debbie attend the MOA national at Hamburg? They did a real nice job when they replaced the intersections with roundabouts on the main road south thru Hamburg. A few other towns in western NY are doing a similar thing. I like them, as long as they're single lane.

We didn't make it to the Hamburg National. Yes the six pack was at the old Heilman Brewery. I was disappointed to see the paint was mostly faded off and there was no tap
On multi lane roundabouts if we can't get in position for our turn in time I just make another loop.
The only one I can think of with a bad design is around the Weatherford Texas Courthouse. It has stop lights within the roundabout.

In my late 20s, I drove across Canada and returned via I-94/90 for a summer vacation. A friend, attending grad school in PA, asked me to stop and pick-up a few cases of Special Export beer. I found the brewery and there was a line around the block of people with empty milk bottles. Thinking it was a line for a public tap, I queued up. There are one or two smaller breweries in PA with a public tap and I just assumed this was the Midwest version. Sadly, it was just a tap for filtered water and the line was due to a "do not drink" warning from the local water system....

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#17 | RE: Turbo roundabout datum

Fri Jan 05, 2024 8:39 pm

Zitat von wessie im Beitrag #3
Swindon, UK - Magic Roundabout

I used to have nightmares about that when I first started driving Hgv's

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#18 | RE: Turbo roundabout datum

Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:17 pm

The turbo is up and running but not everyone is happy with it as discussed in today's news article.

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#19 | RE: Turbo roundabout datum

Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:49 pm (Last edited: Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:51 pm)

The Turbo Roundabout is back in the news. No traffic deaths anymore, but accidents are up instead. Maybe they need a Turbo Roundabout on the Golden Gate Bridge and the I-880 freeway in Oakland, CA: https://patch.com/california/pacifica/s/...northbound-i880

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#20 | RE: Turbo roundabout datum

Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:36 am

Zitat von Richard230 im Beitrag #19
The Turbo Roundabout is back in the news. No traffic deaths anymore, but accidents are up instead. Maybe they need a Turbo Roundabout on the Golden Gate Bridge and the I-880 freeway in Oakland, CA: https://patch.com/california/pacifica/s/...northbound-i880

Actually, that's the intended result. Reduce the opportunity for head-on (i.e., high relative velocity) collisions will accepting the possibly of merging fender benders while the public comes up the learning curve.

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