We’ve been trying to get rid of the Concord Rotary for decades. My Tom-tom calls it a rotary, but Tom-Tom’s U.S. office about a quarter mile from the Concord Rotary. What do they call it outside of Massachusetts? In the UK, it’s a “roundabout”. What is it in Iowa?
In Minnesota, I call it a Clusterf***.
Leftists here call them “Calming Circles”.
Dunno about Iowa, but in Wisc., I think the signs say “Traffic circle ahead”.
I was going to say, “rotaries” have been common in New England for at least 50 years.
We call them ‘traffic circles’.................
There’s an upsurge of “roundabouts” (we used to call them “traffic circles” here)in northern Virginia. It’s part of a move called “traffic calming” to avoid the starts and stops and traffic surges of regular traffic lights.
Also they may be cheaper in the long run—since there are no traffic lights to maintain.
Where Route 50 meets Route 15 (a major N/S road going for NC up into NY state) TWO roundabouts are used, and, so far so good (as far as I know). Used to be a major intersection of two heavily traveled roads, where you’d always want to time the light right... now you don’t have to slow down so much...
I know huge traffic circles (with 5 or more roads coming together) can be dangerous, but roundabouts as an alternative to a typical traffic light, may well be a good thing.
When I visited England many years ago it was called a circus.
They were called rotaries since the beginning. Naming them roundabouts has recently come into vogue. I suspect the anglophile socialists (the PBS following) think it is a more chic way to call them as they advance their "smart growth agenda." That agenda is determined to make you suffer while driving in the hope you switch to mass transportation. They make straight roads crooked, four lanes reduced to two, bike lanes everywhere, speed bumps, sidewalk jetties, more traffic signals, and roundabouts.
They were called rotaries since the beginning. Naming them roundabouts has recently come into vogue. I suspect the anglophile socialists (the PBS following) think it is a more chic way to call them as they advance their "smart growth agenda." That agenda is determined to make you suffer while driving in the hope you switch to mass transportation. They make straight roads crooked, four lanes reduced to two, bike lanes everywhere, speed bumps, sidewalk jetties, more traffic signals, and roundabouts.