Roundabouts get you an 86% reduction in the rate of fatal crashes, but some weirdos at a public hearing said they're confusing, so who's to say what's right?
Roundabouts get you an 86% reduction in the rate of fatal crashes, but some weirdos at a public hearing said they're confusing, so who's to say what's right?
@mnolangray We just built a brand new one in Bozeman 😍
@mnolangray I will take you on a tour of the roundabouts of Conway! google.com/amp/s/www.thv1…
@mnolangray Living in the roundabout capital of the US, I get so frustrated going to places that don’t have them. They’re great.
@mnolangray My only question - is any of that reduction about people being deterred from even trying to cross at a roundabout? Is the reduced mortality just people staying home bc roundabouts make places unwalkable? Genuine question, not rhetorical.
@mnolangray Surely it is not this clear cut. Roundabouts take up a lot of space at intersections and give it to cars. They allow traffic to flow more continuously - pedestrians are dependent on drivers to look out and yield. Which they often don't, especially when exiting the roundabout.
@mnolangray Properly built roundabouts, yes. But American cities often don’t know how to build them, so they end up confusing and worse than the light they replace.
@mnolangray They do take a while to get used to, but after that they're so much safer and efficient.
@mnolangray I wonder if DC's hilarious fake roundabouts confer any of this benefit.
@mnolangray My area installed traffic circles over the last several years, and people are legitimately too dumb to understand how to use them. These same people are also too dumb to understand other basic traffic laws, and - very importantly - the traffic circles make them be dumb slower.
@mnolangray Make driving 1000x more complicated, almost nobody will pass the test. Only the best can drive = no crashes, but everybody suffers and dies from not having any transport