Tuesday, August 17, 2004
RoundAbout Yeah Right!
We have one rotary in our area that causes traffic nightmares for those who have to travel it every day. Our bright eyed leaders came up with the idea that changing traffic legislation to permit it to be changed to an European style roundabout is going to solve all the problems and make it better. In fact they intend to hire an English style consultant to figure out how to do it.
I have experienced European style roundabout traffic in several countries in Europe. That was back in the middle seventies. I wonder why since then, that they have been continually trying to remove them and put in interchanges?
I don't know why we allow our representatives to make decisions like this when the majority of them have not experienced driving in European traffic, let alone their roundabouts. Flying over one in a taxpayer paid flight or sitting in a taxi funded the same way hardly qualifies one as a roundabout expert. Course that is why we are going to pay for a consultant from over there to do that design thing. Works good on paper.
From my experience, one thing it will do; it will help send our insurance rates higher. After all they were running out of reasons to do that.
Let's see, they predicted it should be operational around 2005. My prediction is that they will be removing it around 2007. Think red bricks folks. Crosswalks and walkways, lay 'em down, pull them back up..talk about a make work project - at our expense.
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We have one rotary in our area that causes traffic nightmares for those who have to travel it every day. Our bright eyed leaders came up with the idea that changing traffic legislation to permit it to be changed to an European style roundabout is going to solve all the problems and make it better. In fact they intend to hire an English style consultant to figure out how to do it.
I have experienced European style roundabout traffic in several countries in Europe. That was back in the middle seventies. I wonder why since then, that they have been continually trying to remove them and put in interchanges?
I don't know why we allow our representatives to make decisions like this when the majority of them have not experienced driving in European traffic, let alone their roundabouts. Flying over one in a taxpayer paid flight or sitting in a taxi funded the same way hardly qualifies one as a roundabout expert. Course that is why we are going to pay for a consultant from over there to do that design thing. Works good on paper.
From my experience, one thing it will do; it will help send our insurance rates higher. After all they were running out of reasons to do that.
Let's see, they predicted it should be operational around 2005. My prediction is that they will be removing it around 2007. Think red bricks folks. Crosswalks and walkways, lay 'em down, pull them back up..talk about a make work project - at our expense.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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