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Originally Posted by Patrick
We have four roundabouts in my town. You have to slow to about 20 mph to make it around the curve, but that's a lot better than coming to a full stop at a 4-way stop sign or light. Yes, sometimes you have to stop because of traffic coming around in front of you, but I'd estimate that about 50% of the time I've been able to just cruise right into the curve and out on my chosen street. It does take up quite a bit more land than a regular intersection, though (but not nearly as much as a cloverleaf would).
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Patrick,I agree that the roundabout is 'way out ahead of nothing',but I'm trying to envision an infrastructure which can maintain momentum ( all of it ).
Mixing arteries and veins is a delicate matter.
We have a century of mediocre road design to remedy.
All traffic engineering manuals clearly spell out the relationship between conservation of momentum and efficiency.The physics is simple.
I'd like to see the experiment played out as we see in electronics,and other fields of technology.