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To: GoneSalt

“Traffic circles,” “roundabouts,” “rotaries,” whatever you want to call them, are as European as the metric system, soccer, and socialism. Personally, I hate seeing any of them in America.


57 posted on 07/27/2015 2:36:10 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ('Men have forgotten God, that's why all this has happened.' Aleksander Solzhenitsyn)
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To: EternalVigilance
“Traffic circles,” “roundabouts,” “rotaries,” whatever you want to call them, are as European as the metric system, soccer, and socialism. Personally, I hate seeing any of them in America.

Well said, my FRiend!

A lingering fear -- and it still may be realized before he's evicted from office -- is that the illegal hussien regime will still impose the metric system on the Republic. As I see it, measurement in the metric system is a necessary first step toward controlling America via a caliphate. It's part of the one-world government sought by the axis of evil controlled by Gates/Soros/Buffett, the communist powers behind hussien's throne.

And I've noticed that on hussein's teleprompter, the word "color" is spelled in the Euro style of "colour". This takeover of the Republic will end in January 2017 when a Patriot (hopefully Senator Ted Cruz) restores the Biblical values that are the foundation of America!

60 posted on 07/27/2015 3:04:13 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: EternalVigilance
In the proper places, roundabouts are great, and eliminate the need fro stop signs. We have a couple on the street where I live. Originally, there were traffic lights, which was ridiculous, and then there were stop signs. The roundabouts are great in the context of the street where I live.

It's the SPEED BUMPS that are ridiculous. Any obstacle that requires you to slow down BELOW the speed limit is asinine. They also cause excessive wear and tear on vehicles, and they may prevent the timely arrival of emergency vehicles.

For instance, suppose you're having a heart attack: the 30 extra seconds or so that the ambulance might take (because of the speed bumps) could easily cost someone their life.

Additionally, how would you like to be someone with a spinal injury leaving such a neighborhood in an emergency vehicle? There is a significantly elevated risk of aggravated an already severe injury.

Thus, speed bumps on public roads are totally idiotic, IMHO. If they really want to slow people down on a street, municipalities should put in a stop sign or some such.

80 posted on 07/31/2015 12:12:11 PM PDT by sargon
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