I once drove on the "funny" roundabout at Hemel Heampstead England.
In the early aighties I was driven mad, as I could take this roundabout on
two directions would you believe!
A fish & chips shop aside the road had a good business of the people looking
how the traffic would jam or collish. Neither of these happened!
Cheers,
Hans
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Breneman" <david_breneman@yahoo.com>
To: <mgs@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: Roundabouts (was Re: replacing clutch on the MGB)
>A town near where I live is going roundabout crazy. There is no
> accepted protocol for using these things in this part of the
> country. You have people cutting each other off, changing
> lanes, etc. Some roundabouts have two lanes both turning right
> into them with no indication of who is to go where. I'm afraid
> to take my MGA anywhere near them. The Wall Street Journal
> published an article about the roundabout craze a couple years ago
> and determined that the average US traffic light or 4-way-stop
> controlled intersection that is replaced by a roundabout
> suffers a 700% increase in accidents.
>
>
> =====
> David Breneman david_breneman@yahoo.com
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