I used to live nearby! Loved that silly thing, just don’t treat it like one big roundabout - it’s six chained roundabouts that you can use individually; both green and red routes are valid and legal for the same destination:
Saving this pic so I can recreate this beautiful monster in Cities: Skylines.
-5 fps
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Traffic lights make roundabouts pointless, unless they’re on a quick cycle used to ‘group’ cars entering a multi-lane roundabout.
If your population didn’t grow up with roundabouts though, and treats them like YOLO free for alls… then you might need lights
My hometown installed roundabouts, with 4 way stop signs. Like, why.
My town built lots of roundabouts, and the population are used to them, but they have a problem with unbalanced traffic, and it’s been growing, so traffic has been getting more unbalanced - more people coming from directions the engineers who planned the road didn’t expect
The real problem, of course, is that though they are trying they are not able to replace the traffic with mass transit. The buses get stuck in the same traffic, light rail seems impossible, even with political will
i don’t think there are any. priority is based on how much you think you could take rival vehicles in a fight.
i’m sure you mean this seriously, it just tickles me.
Where we’re going, we don’t need traffic lights
Have… Have you never seen a roundabout?
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Having driven on that magic roundabout as well as the one in Swindon I can tell you that most minds can’t comprehend them
there are many roundabouts in my American city and sometimes the Americans even use them correctly
Of course I know how to use a roundabout! Step one: close eyes Step two: floor it Step three: pray Works every time!
You joke. I have personally seen someone use a roundabout like a launch ramp and survive.
I’ve seen the end result of someone trying to use a roundabout as a launch ramp. I don’t think their car, stuck in the middle of the roundabout, survived.
We have a roundabout with a pond. The ducks like it, and they’re really disturbed
I learned to drive in a town where the on ramp to the highway came out of a roundabout so I actually did some learning! :)
👏👏👏👏👏 so proud of you :)
I have one within 5 minutes heading to the beach and you can always see the confused travelers looping lol
1 min without traffic
I was waiting for this one lol
Inevitable as the heat death of the universe.
Personally, I would have used the Swindon magic roundabout, but this works too.
The less people that know about Swindon the better.
my favourite thing about Swindon is ~
American? Do you mean USAEan?
Ok. I get it. There are people in the Americas that are not from the US. But do you call people from the United Mexican States “Unitied Mexican Stateans”? No, that sounds ridiculous. I think that it’s silly anyway to call everyone from either Americas “American” anyway; they are two different continents! “North American” or “South American” would be better, if you must get so broad with your adjectives (but really, continent-wide generalizations of people are rarely useful anyway). Sorry for the rant.
There was a meme posted earlier that used the term “USAean”. They were referring to that i think
Yeah I went ultra meta. The first countermeme said USAean instead of American, and then one of the topish comments was “USAean? Do you mean American?”
tbh “united mexican stateans” sounds cool, it should be used more
1: I was making a meta joke, and this point isnt really your fault
2: Canada takes up more of North America than the States does, and no one says “United States of Mexico”, they say Mexico. Mexico is also not a continent that is shared with other Countries. In general I’m not going to fight people referring to the States as America, but you arguement is BAD
It’s not about size. It’s the fact that the United States of America has the word “America” in it. And I don’t refer to the US as “America” (unless I’m being cheeky, though in those cases, I spell it 'Murica), but I do refer to people from the US as “American”.
And I know this is all kinda pedantic. I just think it’s fun to talk about words. I get the feeling you read some snark into my pervious comment, but that really wasn’t my goal.
Oh, yeah, I totally misread your tone and point, my bad. You’re right on there not really being an better word for People of the US than American, although now that I think about it “Statesman” sounds pretty nifty
I’m just being a little pedantic here, but Canada is only about 100k miles or so bigger than the US and much more of Canada is unlivable unless you count Texas and Florida as being unlivable, because I do.
There’s also about 10x as many Americans as Canadians.
Continent wide generalizations work just fine for 2 of them. Damn Australians an penguins are up to something, I’m sure of it!
I’d prefer calling them murican.
how cever!
They’re not two different continents thought?
North America and South America are 2 continents in a lot of models. What definition are you using that has them as one? I’m always pretty skeptical of the ones that have Europe and Asia but then just America.
Yes Eurasia is 1 continent too, arguably it should be afroeurasia as well.
Can confirm. I tried 2 laps in the roundabout in front of Kaiser and people lost their minds 😂
I’d like to return to the simple days of lemme beans, please.
Only if there’s traffic. It says it only takes a minute without traffic.
I do not understand :(
I think the joke is people keep posting the “you can drive x hours and still be in y location”, but really, you can drive indefinitely in one neighborhood, without every leaving. You could stay in the roundabout for as long as you want, just like you can drive from South Africa to Finland, or whatever.
Yes, that was my first thought as well.
But the Google Maps screenshot says 0.2 mile which means that it’s just exactly one time around in the roundabout and not insanely often, so that’s not the case here.
I looked up the roundabout to see if there’s any reason why you’d need so long (e.g. it’s not really for driving and you could be 1mph/kmh or so, but it looks like you can drive normally on it.
are you American?
No
Thank you. This is the meme that Lemmy has needed for the last week.
what’s the origin of this meme? I’ve seen several versions of this same theme
