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Why do Americans have such a hard time with traffic circles?
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Date: June 1st, 2020 11:34 AM Author: Irradiated home circlehead The one near my hometown has people braking to a stop inside the roundabout all the time. This isn't a new traffic pattern either, it's been there for decades (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40318510) |
Date: June 1st, 2020 2:00 PM Author: Irradiated home circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321223) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:01 PM Author: light disrespectful main people They are for eurotrash. We have stop lights in America. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321232) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:04 PM Author: Galvanic Up-to-no-good Skinny Woman Church Building traffic circles are 180. lol at ruining your transmission with stop and go lights (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321257) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:11 PM Author: frum beady-eyed site it's like the metric system: it's OK, and fine if foreigners prefer it, but it has no place in America (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321306) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 11:54 PM Author: Blathering shitlib hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40325753) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:02 PM Author: Laughsome Piazza because they are fucking faggot as hell. very difficult for my truck to do easily. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321243) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:05 PM Author: nubile garrison fat ankles they're not common where i'm from. what i dont understand is what are the inner lanes for? as a shortcut? seems like youd just want to stay in the outside lanes until your exit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321262) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:09 PM Author: Ocher Concupiscible Box Office Degenerate I usually drive around it a few times in the inner loop to build up speed, then shoot out like a rocket (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321295) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 10:45 PM Author: Irradiated home circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40325192) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:10 PM Author: frum beady-eyed site There are a few traffic circles in my neighborhood and people constantly hit and crash into them. Good. Traffic circles are a foreign imposition and have no place in a free country. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321302) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:12 PM Author: Arousing codepig den because americans want walkable communities, unlike europeans (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321310) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:12 PM Author: Ungodly territorial bawdyhouse (guy not from Jersey) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321312) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:46 PM Author: Histrionic Crimson New Version Double Fault Or NYC. Columbus Circle and at 110th street and CPW immediately come to mind. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321576) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2020 9:01 AM Author: cream splenetic heaven Or Boston. Or DC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40327466) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:12 PM Author: Ocher Concupiscible Box Office Degenerate They make sense when you have an intersection of more than two streets, but the little ones that they plop down to replace a 4-way stop sign are just stupid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321316) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:46 PM Author: Hyperactive property legal warrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321571) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 5:25 PM Author: pea-brained charismatic gas station nowag Ith calms the tlaffic! explain explains the Vox transit blogger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40322649) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:18 PM Author: Ocher Concupiscible Box Office Degenerate Also the rules aren't always consistent, which adds confusion. In France, some roundabouts give priority to the people already in the circle, and others (like the Arc de Triomphe one) give priority to the people entering the circle, as I learned when I tried driving on it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321362) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:37 PM Author: Fuchsia federal station really tough guy They are common in my neighborhood and people handle them fine, i like them. Really helps congestion.
They built one in the are country area we vacation in and people got MAF and now they are spending millions to tear it out and replace it |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:40 PM Author: seedy chapel turdskin I get them from a theoretical perspective but, in practice, they seem to actually create congestion when scared people wait for an opening to enter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321533) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:42 PM Author: Lavender Effete Mediation They are common only in New England where they are called “rotaries.”
I can never remember who has the right of way. I think people already in the circle do?
DC has them too, and it’s just a shit show. Ever try to drive around DuPont circle? |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:44 PM Author: obsidian faggotry generalized bond DC has so many retards that they put stop lights at the rotaries. They are the dumbest lest educated people on the planet |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:49 PM Author: exhilarant tattoo The ones in Brooklyn have stop lights too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321591) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 10:46 PM Author: Irradiated home circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40325201) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:50 PM Author: green patrolman casino Dupont Circle is hilariously counterintuitive. You have to be in the outer lane to continue around the circle. If you switch to the inner lane, you are shot out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321598) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 9:57 PM Author: Lavender Effete Mediation You can’t actually drive all the way around the circle. It makes no sense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40324810) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2020 12:09 AM Author: Irradiated home circlehead can't even picture how this works lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40325885) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:42 PM Author: passionate know-it-all set Unfamiliarity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321545) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:45 PM Author: exhilarant tattoo There is one at each end of Prospect Park in Brooklyn that you need to drive through to get anywhere in Brooklyn. I took one at like 70mph when the quarantine kicked off. Got a $100 ticket for my pleasure from the speed camera there but it was soooo worth it. The speed limit at that spot is 25mph....
Driving through the park during the quarantine with no cars around was ridiculous. Its a scenic as fuck spot even with the usual heavy traffic but with zero cars it was like driving in a zombie movie. Peak driving experience. |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:46 PM Author: Histrionic Crimson New Version Double Fault They are awful and I absolutely hate them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321572) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:48 PM Author: exhilarant tattoo In Toronto there is a giant 4 lane one that is scary as all hell. The 2 lane ones I get but 4 lanes is insanity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321586) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 2:51 PM Author: nubile garrison fat ankles yeah i don't understand. who are the maniacs who get in and then get to the innermost lane? how much time does that save? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321600) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2020 10:51 AM Author: Histrionic Crimson New Version Double Fault tcq (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40328071) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2020 10:52 AM Author: Irradiated home circlehead What kind of car nut are you? Can't drive stick, hate traffic circles, loves jeep libertys etc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40328085) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 3:05 PM Author: khaki brunch preventive strike I nearly got in several accidents in dubai traffic circles. Like a poster above said, I would stick to the outside lane so I could exit at my exit. I'd pass several exits in this lane if necessary. Multiple times cars to my left on the inside lane tried to exit across my path, forcing one of us to slam on the brakes to avoid contact. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321679) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 11:01 PM Author: Marvelous magical house death wish You should be in the outermost lane only if you're exiting on the next exit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40325316) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2020 10:55 AM Author: khaki brunch preventive strike Why should this be the rule instead of "dont exit if you dont have a clear lane on your right" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40328112) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2020 10:57 AM Author: Irradiated home circlehead That *is* the unstated rule. I think the problem here is the ragheads you were sharing the road with (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40328126) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2020 10:51 AM Author: Histrionic Crimson New Version Double Fault There are always a ton of near misses in them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40328076) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2020 10:54 AM Author: Irradiated home circlehead These can all be attributed to low IQ. Never saw anything close to a near miss in a month of driving in a predominantly white part of the UK. Would have sucked to wait minutes at a red light at those large intersections (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40328099) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 3:07 PM Author: Galvanic Up-to-no-good Skinny Woman Church Building Lol at the people not understanding inner lanes. What do you think happens when a turn has traffic you dumb retards? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40321686) |
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Date: June 1st, 2020 10:48 PM Author: Overrated magenta boltzmann cruise ship Americans, including OP, can't even agree on what to call them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40325212) |
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Date: June 2nd, 2020 10:42 AM Author: Irradiated home circlehead Lol I believe there's a actually distinct regional variation in this, even in the US. Eg, they call them rotaries in New England and traffic circles in NY/NJ. I've heard some people say traffic circus as well, should have asked where they're from. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4547872&forum_id=2#40328004) |