WATER
May 15th 2016 | 11:00 pm
#91
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 35,504
From: CT
Re: WATER
I must admit I have some problems using roundabouts in the UK after driving here for 40 plus years. It's enough to have to cope with driving on the left and re-familiarizing myself with stick shifts. I've never been able to hit the right turn off first go. It keeps my wife amused as I do the circuit 2 or 3 times before I manage it. Course I couldn't get her behind the wheel of a car in the UK if I paid her a kings ransom and as for her navigational skills ... well thank God for the Tom Tom at least.
May 16th 2016 | 1:03 am
#93
Heading for Poppyland
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 17,526
From: North Norfolk and northern New York State
Re: WATER
I love Massachusetts but the great majority of people who live there are complete morons. I don't know why it is, but it's true.
May 16th 2016 | 1:48 am
#94
I have a comma problem
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 49,598
From: Fox Lake, IL (from Carrickfergus NI)
Re: WATER
This sounds to me that the 4 way stop that was replaced was a problem place for drivers failing to give way to other drivers in order of precedence causing T-boning and other kinds of collisions in which case a roundabout would work better.
I haven't encountered any problems at stops so far. If a driver to my right arrives at his stop the same time as I do mine I always give him right of way across the intersection per the California drivers handbook.
I must admit I have some problems using roundabouts in the UK after driving here for 40 plus years. It's enough to have to cope with driving on the left and re-familiarizing myself with stick shifts. I've never been able to hit the right turn off first go. It keeps my wife amused as I do the circuit 2 or 3 times before I manage it. Course I couldn't get her behind the wheel of a car in the UK if I paid her a kings ransom and as for her navigational skills ... well thank God for the Tom Tom at least.
I haven't encountered any problems at stops so far. If a driver to my right arrives at his stop the same time as I do mine I always give him right of way across the intersection per the California drivers handbook.
I must admit I have some problems using roundabouts in the UK after driving here for 40 plus years. It's enough to have to cope with driving on the left and re-familiarizing myself with stick shifts. I've never been able to hit the right turn off first go. It keeps my wife amused as I do the circuit 2 or 3 times before I manage it. Course I couldn't get her behind the wheel of a car in the UK if I paid her a kings ransom and as for her navigational skills ... well thank God for the Tom Tom at least.
Luckily when I go back, the roundabouts we encounter are easy ones, so I get used to them again pretty quickly.
May 16th 2016 | 7:15 am
#96
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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From: Portlandia Metro
May 16th 2016 | 7:17 am
#97
Lost in BE Cyberspace
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Posts: 7,456
From: Portlandia Metro
Re: WATER
I have never seen a mini roundabout in the US, you know the ones you drive straight over the middle.
May 16th 2016 | 7:29 am
#98
Banned
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 6,035
From: california
Re: WATER
I was at least lucky in one respect in that I managed to get the right turn off after a couple of tries. Not doing so means a long, long drive to the next exit on the motorways
Last edited by dc koop; May 16th 2016 at 7:34 am.
May 16th 2016 | 7:32 am
#99
I have a comma problem
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 49,598
From: Fox Lake, IL (from Carrickfergus NI)
Re: WATER
I later came to learn that the function of the mini-roundabout wasn't so much to be driven around, more that it was to signify that at the junction, priority was given to traffic from the right, rather than the left, if it were a normal T-junction. Driving straight over the painted circle is apparently quite fine.
May 16th 2016 | 11:07 am
#102
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 92,279
From: MA, USA
Re: WATER
The way 4 way stops work around here, and much of New England...who ever has the biggest motor goes first and they don't care who got to the sign in which order.
May 16th 2016 | 11:09 am
#103
BE Site Lead
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 92,279
From: MA, USA
Re: WATER
Southie, though, yeah, definitely a interesting bunch
