On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:08:17PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Haha, wow. I would love to see one of those on Cape Cod, where a > single, normal "rotary" can back up traffic all the way to Boston > (because most Americans can't figure out how to drive in a circle, > apparently). I always hated getting stuck behind out-of-staters driving around Beaverton or Portland's eastside. Roundabouts are common in both spots, and East Portland has massive ones. I swear, the KEEP MOVING signs on the ones in Northeast and in Beaverton are more effective at getting traffic to stop than a railroad crossing with the gates down during tourist season. What *really* pisses me off is when I'm approaching a roundabout to go around it in the correct (anti-clockwise) direction, some asshole coming the other way or from the right thinks that they can cut off the roundabount clockwise to turn left at the junction instead of going around like anybody with a brain would do. I've now had five very near misses thanks to these idiots, three had Californian plates, one had British plates (and for that I'm giving leeway since British roundabouts move clockwise) and one idiot was on the phone. The ones in Beaverton are more for looks than practical use, though I say this about any roundabout with more than one lane or with very little traffic that has a stop sign on it. Many of the Beaverton ones used to be four-way intersections that they dropped a roundabout into. I hate those, since you still have to stop when approaching from the non-major directions, so it defeats the point of the damn roundabout... -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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