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But to be fair… putting down a single sign at the start of every red divider even if it’s still under construction would have prevented most of that insanity.
That’s the point of a roundabout. It lowers speed at the crossing while also increasing throughput compared to a regular crossing.
So you can indeed lower speed at a crossing area while not lowering the speed of traffic overall, just by eliminating the waiting times.
Yeah, but then us Americans have to learn how to drive in circles and that’s really hard apparently.
Where do you live? Roundabouts are pretty common in much of the US anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu0VJ7Vo5pg
But to be fair… putting down a single sign at the start of every red divider even if it’s still under construction would have prevented most of that insanity.
Roundabouts exist in the oldest parts of the US. Go east and you’ll find them everywhere.