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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
We have two in my town, we need more! They're so, so much more efficient for traffic, especially with odd-ball 5-way intersections and no one can ever make up their mind whose turn is next. Problem is, people aren't used to them and consider them like stop-sign or red-light intersections.
Folks in New Jersey were just as bad about them as you describe, only in a different way. In NJ they'd treat each road leading into the circle as a new intersection and yield to the cars coming into the circle, meaning you'd proceed through a three way circle 120 degrees at a time, stopping at each road. Net result is that they've rebuilt most of them into expensive, complex traffic light and overpass arrangements.
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