Who Hates Roundabouts?

Don't particularly mind roundabouts, once I got used to them.

I can understand Michiganders being upset over roundabouts, after decades of right turn only intersections, with U-turn lanes, a half mile down the road, it would be a really big change, imo. 🤣
 
in anything it takes some getting used to but in my experience they do not help either people are confused about who has the right of way or they all go at once in place near me accidents jumped significantly after they were installed.
 
Very functional more efficient in some intersections versus stop signs or traffic lights. Example where it works well is the US50/CA89 junction at Myers near South Lake Tahoe. Often US50 traffic is heavy at impatient higher speeds with those few perpendicular on CA89 having difficulty merging onto US50. Left turns are often impossible. The roundabout forces US50 traffic in both directions to go through slowly while allowing CA89 few to merge easily. A residential areas where some impatient non-residents speed, they act like speed bumps without needing police enforcement.
 
Hate the two-lane roundabouts. Like the single lane ones. Just wish people would learn to signal when leaving it; the flow would be smoother and faster.
 
I’m a bit intimidated by them mainly because I don’t use them often enough to become comfortable with them.

Anything that keeps traffic moving smoothly is probably a good idea.
 
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Here is the roundabout from hell. It has six exits and the main highway cuts right through the middle. Look very closely and you will see that every junction on this wretched roundabout is traffic light controlled. That road marking you see where the white van is, yellow lines forming little squares, that must be kept clear. Fat chance of that. It's a motorists nightmare.
 
Ist in the US., there aren't enough of them for drivers to get used to them. So most drivers are hesitant, slow down and get confused, which defeats the purpose of round abouts. Round abouts are good for small, not heavily traveled intersections. I think round abouts look good on paper, but put people in cars on a circle, and they don't work that great.
 
They are better than stupid stop lights. Now those I HATE!!!!

Less accidents too...supposedly.?

The Brilliant Sorcery of England's 7-Circle Magic Roundabout |

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Only place I can remember having one, was in a town we lived in many years ago.

When you got familiar with it then it seemed okay ..... but without knowing where you want to go, it can be perplexing...o_O
 
Actually, it's not the roundabouts that are annoying around here. It's that it creates a detour situation for about 3 months while they're building it. Traffic is rerouted all over the place that causes congestion and delays, not to mention a lot of traffic is routed thru residential neighborhoods, making the side streets like a freeway at rush hour. It doesn't last forever, but for 3 months it's pure hell.
 
I have to drive through rotaries everyday, multiple times a day, so I am used to it. If I weren't I'd never go anywhere.
 
Roundabouts are not very common in the rural South. Our county built one about 5 years ago. At first I hated it. Now I sort of look forward to zipping through it. It’s like being in a live arcade game.
 
If you're not familiar with the particular one you encounter, there is initial confusion till you figure it out. If you happen to encounter another driver who is familiar and knows where he is going, there could be an accident. One came flying through on me when I was slowly cruising trying to figure it out, and there was a near accident.
 
They are rare here. Here are two that have been here for as long as I can remember. We call them traffic circles. The first is in Long Beach and we used to refer to it as the suicide circle.

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And this one is in downtown Orange.

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The little umbrellas on the lower left are a Cuban restaurant. Recently my city has started installing them on some residential intersections. I don't like the big ones; too much lane changing in a very short distance.
 
They put one in in my old neighborhood. It was very attractive, with ornamental 3' high columns all around the inside and attractive plantings in the middle.

I do hope whoever designed it lost his job, though, as they found out immediately that the big firetruck couldn't go around it without taking out a couple of the columns. The remaining columns were swiftly removed.
 

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