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re: How do you feel about modern roundabouts?
Posted on 7/27/16 at 10:29 am to wmr
Posted on 7/27/16 at 10:29 am to wmr
Here, enjoy this soothing drone footage of street construction in West Fayetteville. Green pastures, clean beats, hill country views, and future roundabouts:
Roundabouts baw
Roundabouts baw
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Posted on 7/27/16 at 12:17 pm to Numberwang
Are the first two roundabouts in the video meant to be for u-turns? There are no intersecting streets.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 12:38 pm to TheCheshireHog
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My 1st cousin works for MODOT (Missouri Department of Transportation) as an engineer. His mentor is the brainchild behind diverging diamonds.
Did you know that the first diverging diamond was in Springfield, MO? Springfield was the test market for diverging diamonds. That's why we have so many.
Now the diverging diamond is spreading across the country. I recently read that Louisiana has diverging diamonds.
MODOT's next big challenge is extending Kansas Expressway south right by the neighborhood Brad Pitt's family developed. The Pitt's are PISSED that MODOT will be building a major road right next to their cozy upper scale neighborhood (which to be fair to them is fairly secluded right now. LOL).
I'm not joking when I say the Kansas Expressway extension is MODOT's next big challenge. My cousin works in Kansas City and last Christmas was discussing the Springfield, MO Kansas Expressway extension and the Pitts' anger over it.
Apparently the Pitts are powerful enough to be heard across Missouri as far away as Kansas City. MODOT laughs at them, fwiw, because no matter how much the Pitts bitch...the Kansas Expressway extension is going to happen.
My 1st cousin works for MODOT (Missouri Department of Transportation) as an engineer. His mentor is the brainchild behind diverging diamonds.
Did you know that the first diverging diamond was in Springfield, MO? Springfield was the test market for diverging diamonds. That's why we have so many.
Now the diverging diamond is spreading across the country. I recently read that Louisiana has diverging diamonds.
MODOT's next big challenge is extending Kansas Expressway south right by the neighborhood Brad Pitt's family developed. The Pitt's are PISSED that MODOT will be building a major road right next to their cozy upper scale neighborhood (which to be fair to them is fairly secluded right now. LOL).
I'm not joking when I say the Kansas Expressway extension is MODOT's next big challenge. My cousin works in Kansas City and last Christmas was discussing the Springfield, MO Kansas Expressway extension and the Pitts' anger over it.
Apparently the Pitts are powerful enough to be heard across Missouri as far away as Kansas City. MODOT laughs at them, fwiw, because no matter how much the Pitts bitch...the Kansas Expressway extension is going to happen.
This post was edited on 7/27/16 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 7/27/16 at 12:44 pm to wmr
It's pretty much all they have in Norway, can't remember ever seeing a stop sign. I love em.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 12:46 pm to Masterag
diverging diamonds, not roundabouts, are the future. You can thank Missouri for the future... 
Posted on 7/27/16 at 12:49 pm to mizzoukills
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His mentor is the brainchild behind diverging diamonds.
The diverging diamond created your cousins mentor? Interesting.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 12:50 pm to mizzoukills
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diverging diamonds, not roundabouts
Different contexts. Roundabouts replace four way stops, baw.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 12:51 pm to Masterag
I don't give a shite, baw. Diverging diamonds are the future.
Posted on 7/27/16 at 4:30 pm to wmr
Love em.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 6:46 am to wmr
There great and wish they were more common. A lot of people run or roll through 4 way stops, basically treating them like a roundabout. An actual roundabout would make this safer and legal.
Also lived in the UK for 3 years where there more comon. There more efficient for traffic flow and safer.
Also lived in the UK for 3 years where there more comon. There more efficient for traffic flow and safer.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 8:08 am to mizzoukills
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diverging diamonds, not roundabouts, are the future. You can thank Missouri for the future
It's not either/or. They aren't used in the same places. Where have you ever seen a roundabout where ramps are?
Posted on 7/28/16 at 10:46 am to wmr
All I really know is that they turn people into complete idiots.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 3:05 pm to Kentucker
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Are the first two roundabouts in the video meant to be for u-turns? There are no intersecting streets.
They are in place for planned future streets when that area develops. It is a rural area that is just fields, with a developed area to the north and a developed area to the south.
Development will happen there relatively quickly.
Posted on 7/28/16 at 3:06 pm to pvilleguru
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Where have you ever seen a roundabout where ramps are?
I've actually seen the roundabouts at exits thing in Missouri, southside of KC.
Posted on 7/29/16 at 7:23 am to wmr
The only thing I will add is people struggle with both a 4-way stop and a roundabout. It's sad. It bugs the shite out of me when a car is stopped at a 4-way before I am, only to try and sit there and wave me through. Also, another thing that grinds my gears - accelerating after a light turns green. Why can't everyone accelerate at the same time? It's like every car down the chain has to have a reaction delay. 
Posted on 7/29/16 at 3:41 pm to wmr
I only know of one intersection in Houston that's been replaced by a traffic circle. It's great during light traffic, but fairly annoying during heavy traffic. It's only two-lane, I don't think I'd like them at all with more lanes.
Posted on 7/29/16 at 4:06 pm to wmr
Having driven several thousand miles all over Europe roundabouts make way more sense in a traffic flow than 4 way stops
Posted on 7/30/16 at 8:40 pm to AUbagman
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Also, another thing that grinds my gears - accelerating after a light turns green. Why can't everyone accelerate at the same time? It's like every car down the chain has to have a reaction delay
Do you really want traffic driving down the road as tightly packed as a line of cars stopped at a red light? That might be a little stupid.
Posted on 7/30/16 at 8:56 pm to wmr
I like them, however, I did encounter a guy who executed a left turn by just turning into me. Luckily, I saw the moron and figured he would do something stupid so we did not collide.
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