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Originally Posted by Funny
Here are reasons for engineering a rotary (I'm from Massachusetts too)properly and driver education:
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This 8 lane nightmare is in Paris, L'Arc de Triomphe
BTW, In L'Arc de Triomphe, the people IN the rotary are suppossed to yeild to the people coming INTO the rotary, how backasswards is that! The other funny thing about the Arc, insurance companies in France, no matter who's fault an accident is in L'Arc de Triomphe, will not cover the damages at all for any reason, and the people involved have to split the damages bill 50/50! I personally would just avoid it... |
I totally believe that. I was in Paris once and I saw the most terrifying thing at the L'Arc. A (BMW) Mini cut straight across traffic without deviating and got away with it. It accelerated on the orthogonal across maybe 4-5 car lanes and wa-la, no damage. Amazing.
Here is the only "real" traffic circle I know of in LA (Long Beach) :
It's very large and very nice, but I don't live there enough to tell you if it is efficient or not. I am only familiar with it because Zed Records was near there.
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