Roy G Biv
Senior Member
Canadian drivers are bad, and will not be able to handle them.
I seem to recall quite a few 'roundabouts' in London - even in the busy West End - and a lot of smaller British towns too. The entrances to the circle are regulated by traffic lights, I believe, which gives pedestrians time to proceed to a median point until the next lights change. Can't quite remember how it works but they're so common there.
Now that I;m working from New Hamburg, outside of Kitchener, I've often shared the traffic circles with horse and buggy, and it's always worked nicely.Waterloo Region has gone really gung ho for roundabouts. They're building them all over the place, and I quite like them. One new arterial that's being built will have roundabouts at every major intersection.
Actually, for anyone interested in how far roundabout technology can be taken, visit this link to a web page about what's called "The Magic Roundabout" in Swindon, England.
It
will
blow
your
mind.
Well, maybe - give it a chance. Cheers!
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Just looking at that makes my brain hurt. I think I need to lay down now...
The main reason why it doesn't make sense is because, being in Britain, the direction of traffic is backwards. If you copy the image to a graphics program and invert it, it actually makes sense. It's nothing more than a bi-directional roundabout, as opposed to a single direction roundabout which is what you see most of the time.
Has anyone seen the archived City of Toronto plans for a "circus" (a la Picadilly) at Queen and Richmond?