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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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoDid you Photoshop out all the traffic lights??
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 months ago
Swiss replaced most large interections with roundabouts in the whole country about 15 years ago. It worked out.
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
In the US, red lights are apparently optional
lycanrising@lemmy.world 8 months ago
i’m sure you mean this seriously, it just tickles me.
thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 8 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.
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Where we’re going, we don’t need traffic lights
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Have… Have you never seen a roundabout?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
The American mind cannot comprehend!
Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 8 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
WanakaTree@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My hometown installed roundabouts, with 4 way stop signs. Like, why.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 months ago
You meant, roundabouts make traffic lights pointless?
Magnergy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You meant, pointless makes roundabouts traffic lights?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
You pointless, roundabout meaning traffic light pleb?
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 months ago
No, lol.
Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Dare I say this is a chicken:egg situation - which is making the other redundant?
psud@lemmy.world 8 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