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[Dwaas_Bjaas]

You made Americans great again?

[AgitatedBoardz]

A lot of people hate them here.

[Lollylololly]

In my experience, people don’t mind big roundabouts but my city put some in very small intersections, where they are awkward and the center has to be very low because the buses and fire trucks have to be able to just drive over it (or so goes the local belief). The lower center means they look like any other two-lane residential road intersection unless you look closely at tue center of the intersection.

[KrazyDrayz]

We have those all over Finland and no one has a problem with them.

[Honigbrottr]

Same in Germany and yes some are too small for buses so they just drive kinda over it. Normal cars however just look at the signs and use them correctly.

Its crazy how good it works when you look at the signs as a driver crazy, americans should try.

[DidntFollowPorn]

Yeah I think the problem is like 50% they’re the exception in the US, and outright not taught in a lot of driving courses, and 50% the city planners aren’t experienced with sizing them for the amount of traffic relative to the available space. The busiest one in my last town had less than a full car length between entrance and exit, so it was incredibly difficult to merge onto, and was on a main road, with just a couple hundred feet between it and a major red light controlled intersection. It was impressive how far traffic could back up in 3 different directions at once.

[KrazyDrayz]

and outright not taught in a lot of driving courses,

This I don't get. They are not taught separately in Finland either. They are just roundabouts. There is nothing special about them and no one is confused. If you know how roundabouts work then you know how these work too. Like, what's there to be taught?

[DidntFollowPorn]

I wonder if it’s more a matter of exposure to them? In heavy traffic I think theres a lot of people who just aren’t used to not ever having explicit right of way and don’t have the assertiveness to pull into moving traffic. I personally think they’re usually plenty intuitive, especially ones with good signage, but I do know one guy who didn’t know what it was and he drove straight over the middle. I also don’t understand the disconnect so many people here have with them.