• Cort@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Were this a 2 lane roundabout, car d would be changing lanes to bypass car c, nearly striking that pedestrian

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      12 hours ago

      Pedestrian crossing without traffic lights at a 2 lane roundabout entry? That’s just murderous design.

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        7 hours ago

        Try a 3 lane roundabout entry. I cross that shit twice a day on my commute to work every fucking day. Other options are very far out of the way as to make them non-viable.

        I always wave on traffic so that I may cross when it is safe. Sometimes, a car stops to let me through, and refuses to move. I won’t go, because I can’t see the other two lanes past the car that is stopped. Four times in the past year, that car was rear ended by a massive fuckoff truck. For whatever reason, they get pissed off at me, not the guy that rear ended them.

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          1 hour ago

          I only once encountered it in Czechia near Plzen with 2 lanes. Think it took me 5 minutes before I could/dared. Can’t imagine it with 3. Crazy dangerous situation. Stay safe!

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        11 hours ago

        Traffic lights on a roundabout kinda defeats the purpose doesn’t it? might as well signalize the intersection

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          1 hour ago

          Tho not preferable, there’s cases where it can work. The roundabout layout still provides a better (easier) entry to the crossroads, the traffic lights can create a “cadence”. Technically not a roundabout anymore, it does use some of it’s qualities.

          Anyhow, pedestrian crossings on 2 lanes right before any kind of intersection without any lights is way more dangerous than a roundabout with lights.

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      16 hours ago

      It took me three attempts to parse

      We’re this a 2 lane roundabout,

      Your mistake is even harder to type than the correct ‘Were’!