Greetings from Cape Cod

I once worked with a kid who was driving around for a few months without insurance. He finally got it and one day as he headed to the parking lot after work, he hollered back, "I finally got insurance today. Time to head to the rotary and fuck with some tourists!"

I always enjoyed that.

 

Friend drove around a rotary at pace with a driver who had cut him off prior to entering. She kept waving at him to tell him she needed to exit and he kept ignoring her. I only wish I had been there to see it.

 

I've heard 'em called rotaries or roundabouts.

You'd be cursing under your breath praying for a rotary sitting in the traffic that would back up if they didn't exist. They definitely help the flow of traffic: in essence, you can keep all 4 directions moving at once rather than the stop and go of a traffic signal or stoip sign

Ashy Larry has it right: the key is you have to be an assertive driver. The timid drivers are going to get fucked trying to negotiate a rotary and count on the benevolence of their comman man/woman.

I can't get left.....I can't get left....

 

How did we talk about roundabouts without this?

 

My town's finishing our roundabout now. There aren't a lot of people that are happy about it...

 

When did the Yes threadjack take place? Roundabout?

 

Two posts above yours, dude. 8)

 

There used to be a zillion of them (circles) in New Jersey, especially by the Shore (the real shore, up around Asbury Park and Manasquan, not Atlantic City), but they've been eliminating them one by one.

Like others have said, the key is to be aggressive.

My favorite move at one of the few left, a two-laner all the way around, is to take the inside lane, and cross the outside lane to stay on the inside lane of the two-lane highway that I'm taking. I can pass about 4-5 cars that are going too slow in the right lane that way.

 

That's frickin' funny.

 

Rotaries are not a bad thing if they serve to slow traffic, and are small with only one lane. The English-style roundabouts becoming popular in Rhode Island - there's one in North Providence, one at Twin River, and one supposedly planned for Routes 2 and 138 down near URI. I feel more comfortable with those than any of the Cape rotaries.

 

Yes, but FOUR FREAKIN' LANES????? WTF do you need a device like that? Amusement?

I got into this thing somehow and thought I was never getting out without taking out several people with me.

I remain amazed that there aren't more accidents in these things. There's a two-laner in La Quinta, not far from PGA West, that I've dodged trouble about a half-dozen times in the last three years.