https://xkcd.com/2932

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This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

  • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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    6 months ago

    I will happily take an extra large roundabout.

    Or “traffic circle” if you’re feeling fancy.

    It’s taken more than 5 years but I feel like people in the city I just moved out of are finally understanding the ones in town.

    Now almost nobody stops at them like an intersection. And i haven’t seen a crash from someone launching themselves straight over the center in months.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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      6 months ago

      And i haven’t seen a crash from someone launching themselves straight over the center in months.

      I never heard of that sort of case short from DUI, which shouldn’t be include in any accident statistic other than DUI. They’re really magical people that will make all sort of edge case happen.

      But yes, love roundabout, it’s a really good way to make traffic flow smoother on a lot of junction, though the downside is you can’t have a traffic light near it. Traffic light is always the bottleneck of every jam in my city

      • Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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        6 months ago

        You’d think it was all DUIs but no.

        I lived within view of one so every time I heard a mildly distant crashing sound, it was almost always someone fucking up at the roundabout. Quite a few Dukes of Hazzard wannabes were completely sober, but “didn’t know the area and were speeding”. In case you’re wondering, it’s well lit, you have ample warning with both reduced speed and the big circling arrow signs, and it’s even at the end of long straight hits so you have a clear view of what’s coming. So as far as I’m concerned, there’s no excuse.

        I’ve never heard more bitching and moaning about communism than when the city first started considering putting “those damn communist euro things instead of a proper stop sign”

        Like damn Bro I didn’t realize people could hate efficient traffic flow so much.

        • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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          6 months ago

          “those damn communist euro things instead of a proper stop sign”

          They’re probably high or something thinking Stop Sign will make people stop lmao

          • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            thinking Stop Sign will make people stop lmao

            This is America. The only valid traffic control structure is one that is predicated on mutually assured destruction. Anything less is namby-pamby socialist propaganda.