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• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Traffic lights make roundabouts pointless though, unless they’re on a quick cycle used to ‘group’ cars entering a multi-lane roundabout.

  If your population didn’t grow up with roundabouts though, and treats them like YOLO free for alls… then you might need lights

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  • WanakaTree@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My hometown installed roundabouts, with 4 way stop signs. Like, why.

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  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You meant, roundabouts make traffic lights pointless?

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    • Magnergy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You meant, pointless makes roundabouts traffic lights?

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      • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You pointless, roundabout meaning traffic light pleb?

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      • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, lol.

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    • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dare I say this is a chicken:egg situation - which is making the other redundant?

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My town built lots of roundabouts, and the population are used to them, but they have a problem with unbalanced traffic, and it’s been growing, so traffic has been getting more unbalanced - more people coming from directions the engineers who planned the road didn’t expect

    The real problem, of course, is that though they are trying they are not able to replace the traffic with mass transit. The buses get stuck in the same traffic, light rail seems impossible, even with political will

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• basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Saving the operational costs of traffic lights is the biggest pro of roundabouts. Cars inside a roundabout always have priority and cars who wanna enter it have to yield.

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  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Swiss replaced most large interections with roundabouts in the whole country about 15 years ago. It worked out.

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    • tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In the US, red lights are apparently optional

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• lycanrising@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i’m sure you mean this seriously, it just tickles me.

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• thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i don’t think there are any. priority is based on how much you think you could take rival vehicles in a fight.

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• pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where we’re going, we don’t need traffic lights

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• kerrigan778@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have… Have you never seen a roundabout?

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The American mind cannot comprehend!

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