I've liked the roundabouts I've used in the U.K., Australia, and Boston. But the idea is to turn into the circular flow of traffic without stopping. I don't see how they can work if the traffic isn't all clockwise (in the U.K., counterclockwise in the U.S.). Brent On 12/5/2012 2:48 PM, Adam P. Goucher wrote:
On the other side of the Atlantic, we have a cycle of six mini-roundabouts with radiating roads, one of which fissures into two:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead)
This is not an individual occurrence, by the way; there are analogous cycles of five mini-roundabouts in Colchester and Swindon.
Sincerely,
Adam P. Goucher
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