What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Eagle1]

What's your beef with traffic rotaries? Granted we've had them here in New England for decades, but once you get used to it, they do help traffic flow.

I didn't read his comment as defending people who do that, just that you'd need to be very oblivious to your surroundings to step on one compared to dog crap.
Can't say I've ever seen a dirty diaper in a parking lot though...maybe I need to get out more?

There are so few in the US they are a disaster. People sit confused waiting for the entire roundabout to clear of traffic. Or they make them so small the big semi trucks can not navigate them.

 

[Runner]

What's your beef with traffic rotaries? Granted we've had them here in New England for decades, but once you get used to it, they do help traffic flow.

When they are installed so as to actually improve the flow of traffic, fine. Where I live, they almost never do that. They install them around here with the specific intent of slowing down traffic, like a really big, expensive and dangerous speed bump.

One of the most egregious examples is a rural two-lane highway (55mph speed limit) where they have installed three of them at about 1 mile intervals. The cross streets are just lightly travelled country roads.
But somebody's great aunt pulled out in front of a semi truck and got creamed one time so now all of humanity has to pay the price for the next millennium.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

We have a bunch of round abouts and I love them. Every one they have added in the city has improved the flow of traffic. Although you do still get the odd out of towner that stops in the middle or heads directly opposite the flow of traffic.

 

[kozal01]

I love the roundabouts, so much smoother traffic flow than a regular 4 way. Only issue are the morons that don’t know how to use them.

 

[Engineer42]

Major lack of training and major
lack of proper containment and socialization..

You meant the owners, right?

 

[bcp]

My dislike of roundabouts is when there are 3-5 in a row, maybe a block or two apart, and all have different single-double lane arrangements.

Bruce

 

[Jstpssng]

What's your beef with traffic rotaries? Granted we've had them here in New England for decades, but once you get used to it, they do help traffic flow.

I didn't read his comment as defending people who do that, just that you'd need to be very oblivious to your surroundings to step on one compared to dog crap.
Can't say I've ever seen a dirty diaper in a parking lot though...maybe I need to get out more?

My point is that the diaper shouldn't be in the parking lot in the first place.

Nor should the dog ****, which is why I clean up after my dog.

 

[1 Old Man]

You meant the owners, right?

I mean it is the owners responsibility. But yes. Same applies to the owners.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I love the roundabouts, so much smoother traffic flow than a regular 4 way. Only issue are the morons that don’t know how to use them.

I don't really care for them, except to evaluate the cornering ability of a vehicle after having modified something.

And I really don't like them in countries with left hand traffic. Having three LHD vehicles that part doesn't bother me, but add driving on the left through a roundabout and that's where I'm likely to screw up.

Also, as someone pointed out above, once ended up in a quaint neighborhood by New Orleans full of roundabouts - pulling doubles.

At the last one (as it turned out) I didn't even try to keep the tractor and first trailer off of it. Just drove straight over it, killing lots of little pretty flowers.

 

[WinterDeere]

There are so few in the US they are a disaster. People sit confused waiting for the entire roundabout to clear of traffic. Or they make them so small the big semi trucks can not navigate them.

I've been through at least 10 of them everyday for the last week, all 45 mph two-lane, and never any problem. The Florida Keys are absolutely littered with them. Best way I know, to keep a big mass of traffic moving at multi-lane intersections on local roads.

Maybe just too much for you western-staters to handle? No issue on the east coast.

 

[Eagle1]

I've been through at least 10 of them everyday for the last week, all 45 mph two-lane, and never any problem. The Florida Keys are absolutely littered with them.

I know of 2 and both were create in the last 10 years.

 

[LittleBittyBigJohn]

These are all in my hometown. It's not near all of them, but I think you get the picture.

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[Eagle1]

Guess MO is backward, not always a bad thing. Then again it is rare for me to be on pavement, mostly gravel road on my travels.

 

[Too many Kubotas]

I've been through at least 10 of them everyday for the last week, all 45 mph two-lane, and never any problem.
Maybe just too much for you western-staters to handle? No issue on the east coast.

There are a few maybe 100 miles from here, but I'm not sure my best handling car would be good enough to maintain 45 mph through them.

Most people probably go 10-15 mph, a larger vehicle less.

 

[WinterDeere]

There are a few maybe 100 miles from here, but I'm not sure my best handling car would be good enough to maintain 45 mph through them.

Most people probably go 10-15 mph, a larger vehicle less.

lol... yeah. Didn't mean to imply everyone was doing 45 mph *in* the round-about! That's the speed limit on the intersecting roads.

Many of these are larger, higher-speed roundabouts, but still probably only 25-30 mph'ish in the actual maneuver. The ones in town centers are smaller and slower.

 

[kozal01]

This is a great video on roundabouts. I agree with most of it.

 

[WinterDeere]

Being forced through dozens of them this week, on roads with which I have no familiarity, I’ll say that knowing which of the 4 to 10 exits to take can be a bit daunting, as your whizzing around the thing in heavy traffic. GPS via Waze is a lifesaver, there.

But worst case, you miss your turn-off, and just do the loop a second time. No harm.

 

[Runner]

They are lying when they say you never have to stop at rotaries (in the video). Most of the rotaries around here are one lane and if there is a car (or a whole bunch of cars) in the rotary, you have to stop and wait for them to clear, just like an intersection (unless you want to take a chance on getting hit).

I am happy for the people that like them, because they probably aren't going to stop building them anytime soon....

 

[WinterDeere]

The worst is traffic lights. We have a crazy little 6-way intersection near my house, completely hemmed in by 250 year old buildings, that was only ever stop signs for four of the six legs of the wagon wheel. Always worked perfectly fine, until some idiot decided it was dangerous and had a traffic light installed.

Now, it’s backed up five to ten minutes in all directions, nearly all day everyday. Trouble is, with our prevalence of creeks and bridges, you pretty much need to go thru that intersection to get anywhere.

We have two rotaries nearby, and they both work great. Yeah, you often have to pause a few seconds on entry, but that beats a line of a half dozen cars at a stop sign, or a baker’s dozen waiting at a red light, every time.

 

[Oaktree]

I know of 2 and both were create in the last 10 years.

There has been a big push on them over the last 15 years or so, but as I noted upthread they've been around here in the northeast as long as I've been driving (pushing 60 years).