Round-About ??

Are there round-about intersections in the state of Minnesota ?? I approached one "here" that had a vehicle with MN plates(on the front bumper) that was holding 25 cars up because they refused to merge into the circle  !! I witnessed them having MULTIPLE chances to get going, yet they stayed put . Just curious if these intersections are in the state of MN .

They are so simple to use, the plan is traffic never stops,, but some people are difficult to change , which is so dam dumb,,, JMO

NE is putting in more and more of them all over. one here locally isn't big enough and there are alot of semi's that roll over in them, then you get a person that gets cornfused and they turn left into the circle instead of staying to the right!.  on place they put them in a new housing area, to small for fire trucks to get thru them, they had to get tore out and made larger.

i am one of those that has diffaculty with change

ClusterForks are going in here everywhere as well. As said, very few have room enough for a tractor-trailer (I deliberately let the trailer wheels go in the grass) and NONE of them should have PASSING zones. When I was making deliveries into some of the new developments I saw that they are getting even smaller and many times the loaded truck would crack the concrete the curb.  One of the local clusterforks with passing zones has had a humongus ugly rusting steel sculpture put in the center to keep people from driving straight through. Another area closed an intersection for the biggest part of last year to put in a huge two lane clustorfork that previously had 4 way stop signs. I had never seen more than a couple cars at once any time I ever went through there. 

Hi all if you love roundabouts so much you are going to wet you pants over the roundabout at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris France 11 roads on to the roundabout and 7+ lanes of traffic on the roundabout at anytime well there is no lanes I have a photo taken from a bus we were on with 8 cars at right angles to the bus. No insurance company will cover you if you are on the roundabout

On the Paris thing, rode through there in a taxi, thought we were all going to die-no contact but it had to be very close, works for them-not sure how?  A lot of fun at night.

Lars(wi) wrote: I hate round-abouts, can’t stand em. There is a couple spots here in Midland TX where the past mayor lobbied for them. Got the budget passed, bought the houses on the land ( of course now all those parcels are removed from the tax rolls). Now the land sits bare. Round - abouts take up much more land than a 4-way intersection. I hate them. Can’t stand curved, squgilly streets in sub- divisions that are developed on perfectly flat terrain. Did I mention I hate round-abouts?

I know how to use them. I don’t like them because they are incredibly expensive to put in, and maintain. Just way to much average taken by the roads dept.

I have a trust issue when in them lol. Scared the cars coming into them aren't going to slow up.
Now one thing that I don't like is trying to pull out of a side street or driveway near a round a bout, the flow of traffic never stops.

Want an even BETTER Thrill? Come to the Midwest, where "Diverging Diamond" intersections are the NEW Craze, driving on the WRONG Side of the road!!!!

Had no problem driving all over Europe even a 90 pax bus. The ones in Minnesota are to small and the drivers are inexperanced and don't have a clue where they are going. The double circle of death outside ryhiad AB was a challenge but that's they way all driving in Saudi was.

Diverging diamonds?  Got them in Minnesota near Fort Snelling National Cemetery.  The map even has arrows on it to show you how to drive thru it.

Edited by 1951WDNWWI - 27 Jun 2020 at 10:02pm