Roundabouts in Chattanooga Tennessee

[eternalrestfoReVer]

that roundabout is easy, i live in swindon, you wanna have a go on the "magic roundabout" your first time on it is one hell of a buzz

[04smallmj]

I see people don't know how to indicate properly.

[lojosol]

I live in east ridge and use the Bachman tubes all the time, which uses a roundabout at the end. I wish people would realize what a yield sign means. Too may people in front of me will stop at the yield when there is absolutely nobody in the circle. If nobody is in the circle, or on the left, you don't have to stop! Just enter!

[cmadams21]

ceannfeachd - tell me where you live and I will give you my explanation

[AaronApolloCamp]

In Illinois, the term "cul-de-sac" is used to describe any kind of roundabout/rotary/traffic circle, regardless of whether or not traffic entering the circle has the right of way or not.

[aliciddaman]

my town in England is famous for its roundabouts, ( Milton Keynes ) but there is no traffic problems in the entire city. its great. but i still dont like living there.

[04smallmj]

Milton Keynes has like 1000 roundabouts, haha. I live in Worcestershire.

[CMPerry]

Apparently, it was French engineers who developed the first roundabouts, called gyratories. When the French inventor was asked to develop them in Britain, the term was replaced with 'roundabouts. (From history on the Alaska Roundabouts website) Why they are not rotaries or traffic circles is also explained there. I wish we had these where I live, but civic thinking here is so fossilized, it's tragic.

[MrAverageUK]

In the UK you just give way to any traffic coming from the right, and just filter through so it nice and easy, although i would find it hard to navigate a us style roundabout (It would feel kind off weird goning anti-clockwise!)

[ianjamescooper86]

I am From Switzerland and well. I have lived in TN chattanooga for a while, and when I saw they were making a Roundabout. I though it was a Great Idea. But people in Chattanooga still don't no how to use it. I had 3 people almost hit me. In Switzerland we fly through them, because we no how. I have to do like 15 mph to do this one, sad sad sad.

[rberding]

We have them also in The Netherlands for a long time. The English invented them. In most countries you have preference

once you are on the roudabout. But rules might be different in some countries.

[NEAR2008]

Excellent video - this is a 2 lane Roundabout as well. A lot of work went into this editing & interview production!

[dex123ter]

That's cool. I wished there were more in metro Atlanta.

[cmadams21]

Rotaries. "When you approach a rotary (traffic circle), you must yield the right-of-way to any vehicles already in the rotary. If traffic is heavy in the circle, stop at the edge of the rotary and wait until you can safely enter. Only a few states in the U.S. have traffic rotaries, and as a result, many drivers are not familiar with the right-of-way rules. Be especially careful and generous when extending the right-of-way to other drivers." Fuck Chattanooga!!!!!!!! Damn Hillbilly redneck

[cmadams21]

they are called f'in rotaries

[mikex182]

there not fucking "rotaries", theyre called ROUNDABOUTS, and u know who calls them that? the people who INVENTED THEM, the ENGLISH. rotaries are shit, roundabouts are king

[cmadams21]

where are you from?

[mikex182]

London

[04smallmj]

London, Kentucky?

[grumpyhunter]

You are correct. They are ROUNDABOUTS. Even the Germans say, "Roundabout." The first one I saw in the US was in Clearwater Florida back in 1999 and it is called a, "Roundabout." The person running around shouting insults should go back and learn English.

[ceannfeachd]

Here, in New England, they are called rotaries. I think it's mostly a dialectal thing. We tend to make them a bit bigger too.

[Beowulfcam]

There is actually a difference between roundabouts and rotaries. The old style circles where the people in the circle gave way were rotaries. The roundabouts are a newer design where the people in the circle have the right of way. (according to the DOT literature).

[ceannfeachd]

Actually, that's incorrect, at least in Maine it is. Traffic in the rotary ALWAYS has right of way over traffic coming on. That's the way it's been since I've been driving. I have never once come upon a rotary where traffic in the rotary had to yield to entering traffic.

[0vrqq]

I believe the difference is the area of the circle. I could be mistaken.

[cmadams21]

they are called rotaries asshole

[ceannfeachd]

Bitching about terminology. Who gives a shit?!

Rotaries in New England

Traffic Circles or Roundabouts in the rest of the World. It's a dialectal thing.

[jezellis]

do they not have many roundabouts in america then?

[YOSHIZERO]

Not nearly as many as Europe.

[grumpyhunter]

Not yet, but the idea will catch on.

[DENJCA29]

I can't wait for more and more to be built. You can't look at a roundabout and ask yourself if you like them or not. You have to compare them to traffic lights, which, if you think about it, are the anti traffic flow.