>>1648874>There's a specific bracket where they make sense... As soon as you need multiple lanes... just become catastrophic clusterfucks...Nah mate. Whatever culture you're from, you just have bad drivers and less disciplined traffic culture. If you're American, i always been laughing at Americans going "Dumb Europeans with their public transport - at least we have the car, and the roads" - but your road culture sucks. The infrastructure is less friendly to cars, than in my country Denmark. Or that of the Netherlands. Or Germany. Etc...
JUST because you don't have trains, or functioning public transport in general, doesn't mean that you automaticity excels in automotive transportation. In fact, the intelligent could probably very quickly find several arguments on how a culture that de-prioritize rational public transportation, might be expected to perform lesser in private transportation as well - from many angles.
Pic related, a report evaluating different round-abouts. There's definetly pros-cons to all of them, and they're not naturally preferable to all other options. But in many situations, even sometimes in multilane-heavy traffic usage situations, a roundabout can be the preferred option. This is often the case in equal traffic usage from multiple directions. If it was a high-usage road in junction with a low, a roundabout wouldn't make sense (a junction at all wouldn't, but i know it's normal in the US to have junctions every ½ mile or so even on 3-4 lane major roads, or "Stroads").
But what about heavy freight? And if you want pedestrains - that surely will suck, right? Well, again, you just have to think bigger than a circle. Many people are thinking about traffic-circles like this one design only that they know of, as the US motor industry with their 7L V8 <200Hp engines in the 70s. People often think of "that one traffic circle" they've seen, don't care about the many round-abouts designs that exist. My next post will show a freight roundabout.
