Straddling buses would only work if they were made out of rubber

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The seats are upholstered (instead of hard, like NYC subway seats).

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In France it doesn’t count as a complaint unless there are roadblocks of burning tyres, farmers dumping truckloads of manure outside political offices, and students hurling rocks. Anything less is just a grumble.

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Fair point.

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not all places in the US have them either. Mostly cities, you know, urban areas where this bus is supposed to be clever.

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I guess it’s that it would be a bit like me saying “That’ll never work as it’s not compatible with roundabouts!”*

  • Yeah, I know roundabouts have started turning up in the US recently. If only I had made this comment 15 years ago.
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It really would not work most places.

And I love my rounadabouts (but rotaries ( more than 1 lane) are the worst). The state is installing a roundabout maybe a half mile from my house, I prefer that to a traffic light in my nearly rural location.

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Recently? There was a roundabout in Louisville at least 23 years ago. I’ve visited it. Kentucky backwards?

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They’ve been in New England for decades as well.

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Well, NYC trains are running late […][/quote]

And here I thought this link was going to be about how the MTA has sourced their new trains from Bombardier with predictable results.

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Yeah, tell me about it…

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Well of course. That’s why I mentioned Kentucky.

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I know of a few in North Carolina that are at least 30 years old, probably older as they were around when I was growing up. (I can at least confirm the 30 years old, as the roundabouts were mentioned in my driver’s ed class, but the instructor avoided them like the plague when it came time for road practice.)

Of course we have been getting more of them in the Midwest recently. I personally love them, but there are a lot of drivers that simply can’t comprehend the complexity of going around in a circle. Even with no other traffic in sight, they still come to a complete halt, obviously baffled, before cautiously creeping out into the unknown.

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We have a few roundabouts here in the ATL now, mostly in intown neighborhoods. The biggest one is probably at Emory, where there has long been major traffic backups. I don’t drive through there much during rush hour, but it’s never backed up when I do, for whatever that’s worth.

But most of the roundabouts are not in incredibly high traffic areas. I like them, though.

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As distinct from the cloverleaf junction, which hides its complexity from the driver, but at the expense of needing a lot of space.

Desirable behaviour?

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