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Some other countries, France in particular, seem to manage better with roundabouts than lights. In Lanzarote, outside the capital, there are no traffic lights anywhere, just roundabouts, yields & pedestrian crossings & everyone gets around fine.
Same was the case in Tullamore when the lights in the centre were broken. Traffic flowed brilliantly. Then they decided to put up a set of pedestrian lights about 25 mtrs up the road from the centre lights and the place is a disaster. All because people won't walk 25 mtrs. No wonder we're all unfit.
Certainly seems to be a factor. Tickets/fines for not performing a hard stop at such junctions or rolling around them etc. are not uncommon.I would think that the reason it works so well is that it must be well policed. Also the fines and punishments in America tend to be very heavy and they don't show any mercy.
Imagine all the moaning and bleating from all those drivers who are so good that these petty rules and regulations should not apply to them personally? Just like all those boring threads about why some bloke didn't deserve to be ticketed or clamped for illegal parking or another bloke who didn't deserved to be fined for speeding - because theirs was a special case.I wish we had the same system and rigorous enforcement of the rules at traffic lights here in this country.
This has been tried here already - I'd guess we've more roundabouts per capita than anywhere else. We even put traffic lights on some of them.
Try dealing with the busiest roundabout in Ireland - Walkinstown. 5 roads off with sets of pedestrian lights on four of these roads immediately as one comes off the roundabout
Try dealing with the busiest roundabout in Ireland - Walkinstown. 5 roads off with sets of pedestrian lights on four of these roads immediately as one comes off the roundabout
it'll take a couple of fatalities for anyone to really try and do something about the blatant disregard for lights that most drivers have... I believe in the US there are cameras that catch people who are running the lights, why buy a few for here!
As a matter of interest, is the Red Cow not the busiest roundabout in Ireland?
That was quite a while ago though so the Red Cow one may well have taken over the coveted title.
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