01-23-2015, 09:17 AM
(01-22-2015, 09:39 AM)BuildingScout Wrote: Roundabouts have been for about the last fifteen years the fashionable trend among urban planners. Therefore they are dropped willy-nilly anywhere and everywhere whether they make sense or not.
I think you should say ... been around in the Waterloo Region. They've been around far longer than that in general.
I've lived in England and Holland, where roundabouts are extremely common for small city streets through to interchanges on larger 2-3 lane streets. They work there and are not contentious.
I think here it is a matter of education and experience.... for the users and the city planners. God knows a badly planned round about is worse than any of its alternatives .