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It's the latest exercise in idiocy by the Arizona Dept. of Transportation. They take roads that had no problems and put in roundabouts. I think one of the heads of ADOT must have taken a trip to the UK and come back with this bright idea. Too bad most drivers don't understand them. You should see a Semi approach one on a main road through town . It's not large enough to accommodate it. Oh well, most people avoid the area now. One way to cut down on traffic.
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Driving in Italy/Europe now, I find that they are helpful to keep traffic moving in certain problem areas, but they don't belong at just any intersection. I've lived here long enough to see four-way and just plain weird intersections really benefit from conversion to roundabout.
But I agree. Many American drivers don't seem to know how to deal with them.
Driving in Italy/Europe now, I find that they are helpful to keep traffic moving in certain problem areas, but they don't belong at just any intersection. I've lived here long enough to see four-way and just plain weird intersections really benefit from conversion to roundabout.
But I agree. Many American drivers don't seem to know how to deal with them.
Roundabouts have been a popular subject before. This one seems to weed out the idiots. It's just the latest trend sort of thing.
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Ooops! Forgot what I was driving. This ain't gonna work!
speednut where are you?
Didn't you see me? I was pushing on the tailgate to help get your truck up the hill...
Kurt, that truck oozes so much character; very cool!
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Ok, well I'm in, here is the runner up......
Bonus points to Motor for doing a rig shot in the cold weather!
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It's the latest exercise in idiocy by the Arizona Dept. of Transportation. They take roads that had no problems and put in roundabouts. I think one of the heads of ADOT must have taken a trip to the UK and come back with this bright idea. Too bad most drivers don't understand them. You should see a Semi approach one on a main road through town . It's not large enough to accommodate it. Oh well, most people avoid the area now. One way to cut down on traffic.
Nice, another Prescott Mini owner.
So how many morons have you see so far wanting to make a left turn and entering the roundabout the wrong way? :impatient
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For every ounce of gas saved by a Toyota Pious, a gallon is wasted by the 20 cars behind it desperately attempting to pass because the typical Pious is driven by what appears to be a stoned, nearsighted geriatric who's also lost and confused and allergic to g-forces higher than .01 just to gain an extra 2 MPG. (paraphrased)
Hmm I may actually try and contribute this month. Now to get Walt out at Sunset and try and clean him up a little form all the snow...-14degrees yesterday a little warmer today thank goodness.
I did make the deadline, right? That was today??????
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For every ounce of gas saved by a Toyota Pious, a gallon is wasted by the 20 cars behind it desperately attempting to pass because the typical Pious is driven by what appears to be a stoned, nearsighted geriatric who's also lost and confused and allergic to g-forces higher than .01 just to gain an extra 2 MPG. (paraphrased)
Uh-oh, it's bad news when the admins break their accounts. Must have been that custom taunting avatar.
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For every ounce of gas saved by a Toyota Pious, a gallon is wasted by the 20 cars behind it desperately attempting to pass because the typical Pious is driven by what appears to be a stoned, nearsighted geriatric who's also lost and confused and allergic to g-forces higher than .01 just to gain an extra 2 MPG. (paraphrased)
Didn't you see me? I was pushing on the tailgate to help get your truck up the hill...
Kurt, that truck oozes so much character; very cool!
Bonus points to Motor for doing a rig shot in the cold weather!
Nice, another Prescott Mini owner.
So how many morons have you see so far wanting to make a left turn and entering the roundabout the wrong way? :impatient
I try to stay away from the area. It's bad enough on the straight roads with all the people on cell phones or otherwise occupied. It seems when they enter the roundabout they lose their sense of direction and forget there might be people in the other lane.
Funny as we had a lot of these back in Connecticut in the small towns and no one seemed confused by them. Usually they had a statue of a town founder in the center. The idea was proposed in Prescott to put statues of the town council in the center of this one.
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Didn't you see me? I was pushing on the tailgate to help get your truck up the hill...
Kurt, that truck oozes so much character; very cool!
Bonus points to Motor for doing a rig shot in the cold weather!
Nice, another Prescott Mini owner.
So how many morons have you see so far wanting to make a left turn and entering the roundabout the wrong way? :impatient
Soon to be MINI owner. My CR/B Clubman (OTTO) is partying on the Isolde right now, heading for the Panama Canal. It has been a two-year wait so I feel like I've been an owner for a long time, just without a car to drive. I got a piece of mail from MINI today with a stencil for the garage. What a nice touch. What other car company would do that?
__________________ "Saving One Greyhound May Not Change the World, but It Certainly Will Change the World for That One Greyhound."
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... The idea was proposed in Prescott to put statues of the town council in the center of this one.
I suggested the retiring ADOT District honcho be the statue, flipping the bird. We get the latest in concrete curbing and rock landscaping (it's called xeriscaping, or said "zeroscaping").
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. It's not large enough to accommodate it. Oh well, most people avoid the area now. One way to cut down on traffic.
"Saving One Greyhound May Not Change the World, but It Certainly Will Change the World for That One Greyhound."
Visit Arizona... speed for the cameras and reduce our budget deficit!
Forgot what I was driving. This ain't gonna work!
And figured out (I figured out it wasn't submittable before I took the time to start pulling out the mount 
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