Roundabouts are generally pretty shit for pedestrians and cyclists, yeah. Also, they are way more of a pain in the ass to drive in than a regular intersection. I'm yet to see a single example of a roundabout making an intersection easier to maneuver.

EDIT: I don't actually agree with this sentiment. I copy and pasted this from something someone said on donoteat01's Discord server. I just wanted to start a struggle session.

  • Budwig_v_1337hoven [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is downright reactionary thought. I will not stand for this. While all car infrastructure is a bastard, roundabouts are definitely preferable to four-way intersections. They're not just safer for everyone involved, require less infrastructure and are usually quicker no navigate overall - the fact, that they don't necessarily stop traffic makes them more ecological: Not as much breaking/accelerating as a normal intersection. If done right, the middle is also unsealed by asphalt, giving space to a little greenery.

    If you're driving in a city that embraced roundabouts a while ago, you basically never have to stop unless you're driving in peak traffic hours.

  • adultswim_antifa [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I’m yet to see a single example of a roundabout making an intersection easier to maneuver.

    Well, I definitely have. They improve traffic flow over stop lights and it's very very obvious.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Roundabouts are a great solution if you've already taken the blackpill on having a walkable city, though they require that a city commits to them because people need to be used to them to see the benefit and having just one or two randomly thrown in will cause problems.

    But having a walkable city is better than having roundabouts. Fuck cars.

  • Antites [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    They are apparently statistically less accident prone than four way intersections, which is why our local neighboring social democrat-run municipality went absolutely haywire and put one in every single intersection making driving there feel like going on those spinning tea cup rides that’s popular with traveling fun fairs.

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Don't tell the police this, but a few weeks back after dropping my dad off to get his car fixed I took the wrong way back home and ended up in a roundabout. There was no traffic so I just banked right thru it to get back on the interstate lmfao

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Sorry but by posting this on Chapo Dot Chat you have volunteered this information to the FBI, expect a summons in the mail in 2-3 weeks.

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I'm sure they're fine to drive but it was my first time ever encountering one and there was no traffic so I noped right out of it. [looks out the window for the pigs]

        • culdrought [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          If you mean that you just went a full circle to get back to the road you entered on, that's perfectly fine and legal to do.

            • culdrought [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Oh yeah that's probably not okay lol. Basically you want to stay in the lane you entered on, until you get to the exit you want.

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I like them since they serve the same purpose as traffic lights but don't require policing in the same way.

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    it is bad but it is good on big cities that don't have the space for new strets like it is dumb but it works well enough like i dislike them too but it is cost effective and in a for profit society that is the only thing that matters if we were doing things by how efficient they are we would not even use cars* *in the way we use them now there is off course a bigger need for a individual transport system in more remote areas but the idea of USING CARS ON A CITY THAT HAS MILLIONS OF HABITANTS IS INSANE GIVE ME A FUCKING DECENT SUBWAY SYSTEM

    • fx8690gii [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I actually love roundabouts, and I make sure to drive around them at least twice before exiting the intersection

    • fx8690gii [he/him, he/him]
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      4 years ago

      When they first started installing them, the locals had a lack of cultural familiarity with them and would be very sheepish upon approaching them, and sometimes do absurd things like drive around them in the wrong direction .

      lmao when my city replaced the stop signs on one road with mini-roundabouts, there was one instance when one driver late at night started driving around it 20 times á la that one scene in European Vacation.