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What's the deal with people and roundabouts? Seriously if you can count to 4 you have all of the skills necessary to navigate a roundabout.... tons of Americans are totally baffled by this simple simple concept.. it blows my mind.
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My problem with roundabouts is drivers who treat them as red lights. If everyone entered them as 'skid pads' I'd be good with them. Simple concept, certainly. But too many drivers have minds even too simple to grasp the simple concept. Timid drivers are the problem.
I think paper also. Quite a few early things came from China, but they stopped advancing along with the world due to their closed system of government and is only recently starting to climb back out on the backs of the western money we send there for manufacturing and their real estate holdings and investments in other countries. I think much of Africa is now under China monetary control and propaganda which is hilarious to see since they are also fully supporting Russia taking over from the US as a world leader due to that propaganda. In the African point of view since neither China or Russia colonized Africa, they are the great just leaders, not really seeing the fact they had 0 need to bother with it and that both countries are hugely racist basically dictatorships with many human rights violations and control of the press and information flow.
Rusty in Montana
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From what little I've seen of round abouts in many if not all cases they're a huge waste of money and space .
Case in point the state of Mt DOT wanted to spend if I remember correctly 3 million and way to long to take out the existing intersection because of the super tankers heading to the oil tar sands in Alberta .
They held town meetings and of the 600+ people who attended them there may of been 30 who were in favor of it .
Also there were some fatalities because some people just don't know how to pay attention while driving in rural Mt where some folks think this is the American Autobahn and drive way to fast at time for conditions .
From what I understand in Europe they're removing the round abouts as fast as possible or so I've been told .
Case in point the state of Mt DOT wanted to spend if I remember correctly 3 million and way to long to take out the existing intersection because of the super tankers heading to the oil tar sands in Alberta .
They held town meetings and of the 600+ people who attended them there may of been 30 who were in favor of it .
Also there were some fatalities because some people just don't know how to pay attention while driving in rural Mt where some folks think this is the American Autobahn and drive way to fast at time for conditions .
From what I understand in Europe they're removing the round abouts as fast as possible or so I've been told .
tomatoshooter
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Apparently a lot of traffic engineers are, too, because they build crappy roundabouts. If traffic entering the roundabout only has to yield to traffic in the roundabout, and traffic in the roundabout has the right of way and only has to find the appropriate exit, you have a good roundabout. If you just plop a circle in the middle of an intersection and plant shrubs that obstruct the view, and one of the streets has a stop sign etc., you don't have a roundabout, you have an obstruction.
That purple one looks kinda kinky...
Ok... I dont get it....
Duuuuuh.
All I see is a chicane and therefore...must go faster.
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My experience with that word comes from when I did a lot of surf fishing.
There is an organization called The American Littoral Society. It's a group dedicated to preservation of the coastline and all the animals, and plants that live along it. https://www.littoralsociety.org/history.html
They have a program where you can sign up as a volunteer, and they'll send you these spaghetti-like tags to affix to certain fish you may catch. Then you submit to them the info for that tag, like what fish it's on, length, weight, where you caught it and when. If someone ever catches that fish again, you can submit the tag number to them, and they'll share the info they have on that tag, when it was first applied, and every instance of that fish being caught and where.
I never participated as a volunteer applying tags, but I have caught fish that were tagged, and they shared the history of those fish with me. One striper was tagged in South Carolina, and I eventually caught it at Island Beach State Park in NJ.
They're a really cool, hands-on kind of organization.
