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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2559 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: America is now an outlier on driving deaths

I suspect, like roundabouts in general, it's maddening and/or frustrating until you use it and then you go

...oh...

And then you feel silly for getting so worked up about something that's actually really fucking effective.





veen  ·  2559 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To put some numbers behind it, the theoretical capacity for a regular roundabout is 20-25k vehicles/day, whereas the above can process up to 40k/day, mostly dependent on where the largest flows come from. (A regular intersection with traffic lights can handle between 20-35k.)

goobster  ·  2559 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ooooh! Numbers! I love data!

Do you have numbers for similar intersections with traffic lights, or stop signs, to compare against the roundabout numbers?