Roundabout Economy Versus Traffic Lights!
By JENNY ARCHER
@bookbar (1609)
Sudbury, England
October 25, 2015 2:08pm CST
In an American city in Indiana, the powers that be, decided to replace all Intersection lights with Roundabouts... for whatever reason.
The results turned out to be quite surprising!
Construction costs, nosedived by $125,000.
Motorists saved 24 thousand gallons of gas per roundabout.
Accidental injuries dropped by 80%
Total accidents fell by 40%
Sounds like a worthwhile experiment, whatever their initial reason for doing it, wonder if any others followed suit?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
25 Oct 15
I guess you've never been to New Jersey, where they are called 'circles' since you can get trapped inside and keep going in circles until someone lets you out. They got rid of most of them, they are too dangerous. My one and only accident was at in a circle.
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@bookbar (1609)
• Sudbury, England
25 Oct 15
No I haven't and 'circles' does sound a bit of a nightmare, we have something similar in a town nearby which is a triple roundabout, in which you can face the same problem...makes you wonder if these planners ever travel through their airy-fairy junction schemes...
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
25 Oct 15
@bookbar I think it's cheaper than traffic lights for them to install. I don't like circles at all.
