Comment by cucumber3732842
Comment by cucumber3732842 10 hours ago
Roundabouts excel when traffic volumes on the intersecting are comparable. They are crap when traffic volumes are highly disparate
Comment by cucumber3732842 10 hours ago
Roundabouts excel when traffic volumes on the intersecting are comparable. They are crap when traffic volumes are highly disparate
> Right but it's not like a 4 way stop is going to perform better.
A 4 way stop does perform better than a roundabout given highly disparate traffic volumes, because roundabouts suffer from resource starvation in that scenario, but 4 way stops are starvation-free.
>In the same case you'd expect it to be a 2 way stop
Which is what it was for the first 70yr... And what most of them in this particular neighborhood still are, with a 0-6mo intermission.
They make people on the main road slow down, which is a feature, not a bug. What you mean is that they're the most efficient at what they do when the traffic is comparable. They only reduce accident at the expense of a slightly lowered throughput if the traffic is highly disparate.