Ridiculously low speed limits

Not really "calming" now is it? šŸ¤£šŸ¤”
Ridiculously low speed limits
 
US Route 1 goes theough Newburyport, Massachusetts (on it's way from Fort Kent, Maine to Key West, Florida.

Two lanes in each direction. Big roedahree (roundabout) has been in place for a VERY long time.

Ridiculously low speed limits

It's now been reconstructed, to have only ONE LANE.
Ridiculously low speed limits

The socialist agenda squelch commerce is so disgusting.
 

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concours said:
US Route 1 goes theough Newburyport, Massachusetts (on it's way from Fort Kent, Maine to Key West, Florida.

Two lanes in each direction. Big roedahree (roundabout) has been in place for a VERY long time.

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It's now been reconstructed, to have only ONE LANE.
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The socialist agenda squelch commerce is so disgusting.
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There's a road near me that split into two lanes at a junction
The majority of traffic turns left in the rush hour which was fine one or two cars would be waiting to turn right
Now the road is a single carriageway nobody can turn left until a car can turn right
This has has caused a traffic jam with standing traffic outside people's houses where before there was none
 
baz said:
There's a road near me that split into two lanes at a junction
The majority of traffic turns left in the rush hour which was fine one or two cars would be waiting to turn right
Now the road is a single carriageway nobody can turn left until a car can turn right
This has has caused a traffic jam with standing traffic outside people's houses where before there was none
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These cruds have a very clear agenda....
 
More insidious than an overall low speed limit. In a 10 mile stretch from NH route 9 going north on NH31 the speed limit changes 6 times between 35 and 50 mph with 40 and 45 thrown in in a few spots. And enough times I've seen the local law waiting to "keep us safe" from ourselves right where the speed limit changes.....always in an inconspicuous spot of course.
 
The reason we have roundabouts is to speed traffic up not slow it down and it does it safely. But then they put in more and more
multilane roundabouts with traffic signals to negate all this.
Answer? Yes, move away from populated areas....
 
Onder said:
The reason we have roundabouts is to speed traffic up not slow it down and it does it safely. But then they put in more and more
multilane roundabouts with traffic signals to negate all this.
Answer? Yes, move away from populated areas....
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Have youhad the opportunity to experience row-da-rees in the US?
The absolute ineptitude, cluelessness and lack of driving skill grinds traffic to a standstill.

I guarantee all your lifelong collection of curse words wouldn't be adequate, even compounded to make new curse words, could not begin to express your observations.
Your head would explode. šŸ¤Æ
 
I think in the states the problem is that drivers don't play by the rule of 'car already in has ROW and those entering have priority to you if, by your entering, you would cause them to brake. So car coming in to my right has priority. Remember we are rotating
in the opposite direction of you.
 
Onder said:
I think in the states the problem is that drivers don't play by the rule of 'car already in has ROW and those entering have priority to you if, by your entering, you would cause them to brake. So car coming in to my right has priority. Remember we are rotating
in the opposite direction of you.
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I am intimately familiar with the proper way.

It doesn't happen here, except for one-in-hundred other drivers.

Most here think they must stop, pause, genuflect before entering the rotary/roundabout.
Keeping the lunch line moving is something they have no interest in, in fact, most DELIGHT in slowing down other drivers.

I had the great pleasure of experiencing UK, Scotland, Ireland, IOM roads a couple times.
So refreshing, as compared to the painful disfunction observed here.
 
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I do see more people stuffing themselves in on a multilane roundabout and block your ability to exit. When this happens the whole thing gets bunged up. And there is truth to the tale that local drivers know how to make progress and visitors often clueless. It happens to all of us at times. Go to the famous monster roundabouts and tell me how you do on your first visit.
The other pain is a miniroundabout where people don't treat it as a roundabout but simply as a junction. And then the double mini which is another thing good on paper less so on the ground when you aren't a local.
As I say, move to a less populated area! :)
en.wikipedia.org

Magic Roundabout (Swindon) - Wikipedia

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The designers gave the drivers/users too much credit for comprehending the management of traffic flow in those things.
See Du Pont Circle in DC, not a true roundabout but close...and you will develop a new language while maneuvering your way around or thru it.
Almost as bad as driving in the city of Boston during evening rush hour, gawd do they worship aggression on those streets. Traffic lights are meaningless, same as or worse than the "entitled ones" in DC.
 
Onder said:
I do see more people stuffing themselves in on a multilane roundabout and block your ability to exit. When this happens the whole thing gets bunged up. And there is truth to the tale that local drivers know how to make progress and visitors often clueless. It happens to all of us at times. Go to the famous monster roundabouts and tell me how you do on your first visit.
The other pain is a miniroundabout where people don't treat it as a roundabout but simply as a junction. And then the double mini which is another thing good on paper less so on the ground when you aren't a local.
As I say, move to a less populated area! :)
en.wikipedia.org

Magic Roundabout (Swindon) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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There's a magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead
I hate the poxy thing
And up the road from me there's a hamburger roundabout where you can drive through the middle
 

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