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On 4/12/2024 10:50 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was going to ask you - and the other Americans in this thread - if
>> you're all starting to see roundabouts in your area the last few years?
>> It's not that long ago that we had essentially none in all of southern
>> Ontario. Now they seem to be the "go to" choice for lots of situations.
>> I'm not sure why that happened but it's very common now.  I had
>> understood that roundabouts are extremely rare in the US too but my
>> friend is hearing that they are springing up all over in the US now.
>> There was one in that video so maybe he's correct.
> 
> Yes, they’re springing up like tumbleweeds. Usually for a stupid reason.
> Like a cheerleader barreled through an intersection at three times the
> speed limit so they decided they should put roundabout in there. She
> wouldn’t have noticed that anymore than she would’ve noticed the stop sign
> so she would’ve just hit it and landed on somebody else.
> 
> They don’t have any signage, and nobody knows who has the right of way and
> so basically they’re freaking dangerous.
> 
The vehicle in the round part has the right of way.

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