Roundabouts are among the several modern traffic engineering geometries you learn about when you take your insurance premium-reducing senior driving class every three years.
"Roundabouts lessen fatal and serious crashes, but they seem to increase the number of annoying interactions drivers have with others who are still learning to use them. That’s one reason they remain polarizing, traffic engineers said. "
https://www.startribune.com/why-many-roundabouts-minnesota/601365939?utm_source=gift
We have just published our third talk from #SotB2025 @joshtumath - How do we keep going wrong? Roundabouts & APIs
https://2025.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/josh-tumath/
#APIs #CSS #Masonary #Roundabouts
"Roundabout" is a song by the English #progressiveRock band #Yes from their fourth studio album #Fragile, released in November 1971. It was written by singer #JonAnderson and guitarist #SteveHowe and produced by the band and #EddyOfford. The song originated when the band were on tour and travelled from #Aberdeen to #Glasgow, and went through many #roundabouts on the way. The song was released as an edited single in the US in January 1972 with "#LongDistanceRunaround".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmZoQFYYx8U
Careless drivers III
Speeding vehicles demolish roundabouts. They are just razed to the ground.
#cars #roads #speeding #drivers #NSW #infrastructure #roundabouts #destruction
If ever there was an example of how to build a roundabout, it is surely the roundabout in Hobart, Tasmania.
Roundabouts are usually boring and anaesthetic structures of solid concrete or badly maintained grass and weeds. But Hobart decided to do it better.
Situated on the edge of the central business district, the Hobart roundabout is also a park. Above, vehicle traffic to and from the city circulates but down in the roundabout, in the park, you find trees which cast summer shade and which when winter comes lose their leaves to provide a sheltered and warm sitting place for local people. The roundabout is structured as a stepped, circular park with lawn terraces, seats and in the middle a combined sculpture and fountain. Pedestrian subways link to nearby footpaths and tracks through adjacent parkland.
In terms of placemaking or as it is sometimes called, tactical urbanism, the Hobart roundabout is a linger node, a safe and inviting place that invites people to break their journey and take a few minutes with the sound of the fountains falling water replacing that of the traffic above.
#Roundabouts #Hobart #Tasmania #Sculpture #Fountains #urbandesign
"You can’t talk #roundabouts without mentioning Carmel, Indiana. The Indianapolis suburb is home to more than 150 of them, by far the most of any US city... largely thanks to Jim Brainard, a Republican who served as Carmel’s mayor for almost three decades." (Brainard was inspired while a graduate student in the UK.) The US now has more than 10,000 of them.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-06/can-american-drivers-learn-to-love-roundabouts
Unpopular opinion for #America : every intersection with a stop light should be #roundabouts or #rotaries.
With the power out here in #Monterey #California from yesterday's storms, many of the lights had their backup batteries fail and are completely dark. It would be so much safer if everything was a roundabout instead. No need for power!
Passive infrastructure is so much better and more resilient.
Dennis 'Joe' Lyons (26 August 1916 – 29 March 2011) was a British scientist who researched topics ranging from rockets to #roundabouts. He led the research of the #BlueStreak and #BlackKnight rockets that were developed at the #RoyalAircraftEstablishment during the 1950s. In 1965 he became the director of the #RoadResearchLaboratory, overseeing the introduction of the #breathalyser, motorway #crashBarriers and compulsory front #seatBelts.
#stroads and #roundabouts, what a pair. Dig that BMUFL sign cowering behind the "bus stop".
water-harvesting traffic-calming #roundabouts #JFDI #ClimateAction
Ottawa’s love-hate relationship with roundabouts.
CBC Listen: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1420-this-is-ottawa/episode/16102620-whats-with-ottawas-love-hate-relationship-with-roundabouts
Overcast: https://overcast.fm/+ABGZDl13jzE
"Roundabout" is a song by the English #progressiveRock band #Yes from their fourth studio album #Fragile, released in November 1971. It was written by singer #JonAnderson and guitarist #SteveHowe and produced by the band and #EddyOfford. The song originated when the band were on tour and travelled from #Aberdeen to #Glasgow, and went through many #roundabouts on the way. The song was released as an edited single in the US in January 1972 with "#LongDistanceRunaround".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGAWR2eRyQ
Coalition proposes alternatives to controversial #GorhamConnector project
Maine Public | By Nicole Ogrysko
Published September 6, 2024
"A coalition of #environmental, planning and #transportation groups is advocating for alternatives to the controversial Gorham Connector project.
"The #MaineTurnpikeAuthority has proposed a toll road that would run from Exit 45 in South Portland through Westbrook and and Scarborough to the #GorhamBypass at Route 114. Turnpike authorities have said the 4.8-mile, four-lane highway would significantly reduce traffic congestion [by a whole 10 minutes, according to MTA's own study!!!].
"But the coalition, known as #MainersForSmarterTransportation (#M4ST), is out with a report this week that details a long list of recommendations for reducing congestion in the region.
"'Simply replacing some of the existing traffic lights with #roundabouts would reduce congestion and reduce #GreenhouseGas emissions,' said #PaulDrinan, active transportation director for the #BicycleCoalitionOfMaine, which is part of Mainers for Smarter Transportation. 'We could also convert some of the old traffic lights with what they call smart lights.'
"Other recommendations include improving the shoulders along nearby roads and adding #BikeLanes. Drinan said the group is also urging the Turnpike Authority to delay the Connector project for at least two years, so that a #RapidBusTransit plan developed by the Greater Portland Council of Governments can take shape.
"The group also believes outdated and flawed traffic data are being used make the case for the project."
[Plus contracts and kickbacks from #PikeIndustries and other vendors]
#SaveRedBrook #SaveSmilingHillFarm #GorhamConnector #GorhamBypass
#Maine #RapidTransit #LightRail #SaveTheFarms #SaveTheForest #Wildlife #LightRail
There are so many #roundabouts going in around our area, which I’m totally in favor of.
One that’s been here for a while got an upgrade this week when they finally got rid of the stop signs that were at each of the 4 entrances. It was the dumbest thing because it was the only one like it, and everyone treated it mostly like a normal roundabout anyway. It made traffic back up so much instead of promoting flow.
@AlisonW The people here can't use those, either. At Kingston's two #roundabouts, there are serious crashes almost daily. Just over the state line in Massachusetts, they have been commonplace for decades.
#Roundabouts and #USAResistance: This is purely conjecture on my part, and not really founded by data or evidence, bt I think I know what the problem is with the USA not likeing or having a lot of roundabouts. I have the impression that the issue is that with traditional intersections, the general rule is that if 2 vehicles get to an intersection at the same time, the driver on the right of the other driver(s) has priority and goes first. This allows that driver to focus on where they are going.
...If you're not quite an intersectional feminist, maybe you're a roundabout feminist. 🛣️🚦😃
Fucking #rotaries #ruining the reputations of honest #roundabouts!
Have to agree that replacing the space hogging cloverleaf with a simpler design makes a lot of sense. Same logic could likely be applied to many similarly stupid original designs.
