Ok this might be a really silly question but just seen an episode of the Simpsons where they don' know how to use roundabouts in the UK.
We have them absolutly everywhere!
2006-08-22 07:33:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
We have several here in Washington D.C. although we call them traffic circles. I have also seen some being introduced in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of D.C. They are not all that common in the States in general which is part of what disturbs Americans when trying to negotiate your roads, but to make matters worse, your roundabouts only compound our confusion over dealing with driving on the other side of the road, and where we need to be looking.
2006-08-22 09:11:03 · answer #1 · answered by anonymourati 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there are roundabouts in the USA, but depending on where you live, they're called "traffic circles" or "rotaries" (Boston). Part of the reason that the Simpsons™ didn't understand the British roundabouts is because of the left-side driving there. It's difficult enough for us "right-side drivers" to come to an ordinary intersection in the UK and know which way to look for on-coming traffic. But add to that the entrance and exit rules of a roundabout, and it becomes maddening. Chevy Chase had the same problem in the movie "European Vacation".
2006-08-22 07:56:45 · answer #2 · answered by Dave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pfffffftt, now that is in basic terms stupid. I drove on an rather abandoned roundabout the 2nd time I ever drove a automobile. And thank God it became into empty, 'reason I completely would have killed somebody in any different case. i became into greatly surprised as quickly as I found out the Brits and Aussies force on the left ingredient of the line. Now that is in basic terms barbaric.
2016-12-17 15:23:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do know that they have them on some roads in New Jersey. We call them traffic circles. About 8 years ago, when I still lived in New Jersey we had the roads coming into a local circle revised and the circles are now non-existent. I believe someone may have told me they have them in Massachusettes as well, but am not sure about that.
2006-08-22 07:44:42 · answer #4 · answered by dcbowls 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. You'll find them here and there, mainly on east coast. When I lived in MA they were everywhere, and the locals all sped through them at breakneck speed. In Tulsa (midwest) we have TWO, and no, people don't really know how to drive through them very well. Also encountered 4 in the mountains of Colorado in Vail/Eagle-Vail area.
2006-08-22 07:48:05 · answer #5 · answered by Brooke G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um, well, maybe, but I have never seen one. The closest thing that we have are called Cul De Sac's and they have a round area at one end so instead of it being a dead end street and making people turn around in a driveway, they can just go around it and come back the way they came.
2006-08-22 07:43:32 · answer #6 · answered by angie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think here in the states they're called traffic circles and here in California I only know of one in Long Beach. There's about three or four in Washington, DC, but those are the only ones I know of.
2006-08-22 07:44:06 · answer #7 · answered by cptdrinian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yea we have them here..*santa maria, ca* its a new thing there using here...
nobody understands how to use them..even with commercials about them and the instructions posted! ive almost got crunched a few times by ignorant drivers
2006-08-22 07:41:37 · answer #8 · answered by mommy2savannah51405 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are roundabouts in the us.. but they are not very common.
americans are not used to them.
2006-08-22 07:41:17 · answer #9 · answered by rcsanandreas 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes we have them here been driving a truck for several years and I have run across them but not very common mostly in small towns
2006-08-22 07:43:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋