A Roundabout, For Bikes

13 Comments on A Roundabout, For Bikes

1. Ha!
   Wanna make a traffic circle even worse?
   Make it an oval:
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   The end radii are too small and if forces everyone to slow to almost a stop to make it through.
   I drive through this every day. What a cluster!

2. Aerial photographs of Wisconsin have revealed strange circular patterns. No one knows who made them or what could have been their purpose. One theory is that they’re vortices for sucking highway funds into the pockets of the roadbuilding lobby. https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2819239,-88.1888532,853m/data=!3m1!1e3

3. I’d LOVE to see that around places where the BikeNazis (those spandex speeders) go 30mph on a regular basis…in groups of 20 or more.

4. In Fruita, Colorado (just West of Grand Junction), just off of I-70, there is a figure 8 composed of two roundabouts in series. Talk about a custerfluck!

5. There is nothing wrong with roundabouts in principle. But in practice they are annoying because of stupid people. There are two kinds of stupid; the kind that hit the roundabout at full speed and never slow down, and the kind that come to a complete stop when there is no one else in sight. The #@$% sign says YIELD, for the love of God!

6. Yes officer, I saw the sign…..so I yelled and I yelled, but the somebitch still hit me.

7. What Tony R said. And I bet you’d that the people who blow through Stop signs are the same ones who stop for no reason at roundabouts.

   And if you’re in the roundabout, do not assume that the mexican landscape truck knows that you have the right of way. You’d be wrong every time.

   One time, I had to stop in the roundabout and lay on my horn because a woman was approaching me from the wrong direction. When she finally stopped hood to hood with my truck, she put down her phone and crossed her arms. I waited incredulously, as did the four cats behind me, then I said, “fuck this noise”, climbed the curb and drove across the middle of the circle, as did the cars behind me. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

8. And Tony R, have you ever been behind a dolt who misses his turn off in a roundabout, and freezes up like he’s nnw stuck forever on the highway to hell?

9. Look kids. Big Ben. Parliament.

10. Our local government has decided that roundabouts are the dollar-spending d’jour. Took intersections that were functional and made them dysfunctional. 🙁

11. I’ll be going through one today, maybe two.

    I don’t like the ones here because so many people do weird things at them. Some people are obviously in fuck-it mode and actually go against traffic and the signs because it’s easier to take the left than go all the way around. Why some blow the stop signs is a mystery too. Nothing like making your round and the next guy almost running into you. Plus, if you need stop signs, why are we doing this round-about thing?

    The one at the local shopping area is just plain stupid. It’s so small it’s just an odd impediment that’s unnecessary. Nothing is safer or quicker for it for reasons noted above.

12. Every time I see an unnecessary physical traffic control device to force someone’s idea of how it should be – I think: ‘$10 says a fucking Democrat came up with this. They can’t help but try to control everyone’.

    This bike round-about is a perfect example of that.

13. In a similar vein are speed bumps. People don’t realize it but the faster you go over most speed bumps the less you feel it. That is if you have a decent suspension.