The Calgary Herald says that City officials are considering building roundabouts as a solution to problems at 4-way stops and traffic lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, I suppose they’ve got to move into the 20th Century at some point – let’s hope they make it quickly into the 21st, where the rest of us are!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I do find the comments of a former driving instructor (Nicole McWhinney) amusing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAs long as everybody knows what they’re doing, everything is predictable, As soon as somebody’s unpredictable, then it causes chaos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Yes. And as long as people are taught properly – and penalised if they behave “unpredictably” – then any <\/em>road system works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I’m doing roundabout lessons with pupils, I often do my “History of…” routine, starting with when people rode in ox-carts between villages, moving on to horse-drawn carriages and horses, then the first motor vehicles, and going through crossroads, traffic light-controlled crossroads, roundabouts, and finishing with traffic light-controlled roundabouts. I haven’t got a clue if it’s historically correct (it’s near enough for my purposes), but it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A roundabout is merely a junction – often, a far less complicated one than one with loads of lights, stop signs, and areas you can’t enter. Countries which have steered clear of roundabouts have probably forced themselves into a bit of a corner, since normal light-controlled junctions can only deal with heavy traffic to a limited extent. They face the problem now that a roundabout might not actually help as much as they’d like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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