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* Bicycles and Roundabouts.pH
+* Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.Frank Krygowski
|+- Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.pH
|`* Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.AMuzi
| `* Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.Joy Beeson
|  +* Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.Rolf Mantel
|  |`* Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.Duane
|  | `- Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.AMuzi
|  `* Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.Frank Krygowski
|   +* Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.Rolf Mantel
|   |`- Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.sms
|   `* Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.NFN Smith
|    `* Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.sms
|     `- Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.AMuzi
`- Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.Doc O'Leary

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Subject: Bicycles and Roundabouts.
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 by: pH - Sun, 24 Oct 2021 20:26 UTC

A cyclist's family is filing suit after a May (I think) fatal accident in
Lafayette, CA.

http://www.wintercyclingblog.org/2021/10/23/legal-claim-filed-against-lafayette-over-cyclists-death-at-controversial-roundabout-the-mercury-news/

Roudabouts seem like a busy one would be very hard to negotiate, given that
a lot of motorists already seem to be having trouble with them.

I know I've seen one in Napa, CA that I would not care to try, it's so busy.

Do they have these in Portland, J. Beattie?

Has anyone tried them?

pH in Aptos

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 by: Frank Krygowski - Mon, 25 Oct 2021 01:23 UTC

On 10/24/2021 4:26 PM, pH wrote:
> A cyclist's family is filing suit after a May (I think) fatal accident in
> Lafayette, CA.
>
> http://www.wintercyclingblog.org/2021/10/23/legal-claim-filed-against-lafayette-over-cyclists-death-at-controversial-roundabout-the-mercury-news/
>
> Roudabouts seem like a busy one would be very hard to negotiate, given that
> a lot of motorists already seem to be having trouble with them.
>
> I know I've seen one in Napa, CA that I would not care to try, it's so busy.
>
> Do they have these in Portland, J. Beattie?
>
> Has anyone tried them?
>
> pH in Aptos

We have two relatively new roundabouts within about five miles of our
home, and another new one within ten miles. These are all single lane
versions. I've also ridden quite a few of them in France.

So far, I've had no trouble using them and no close calls, but one must
be assertive. Of course, I absolutely take the lane approaching the
roundabout and within the roundabout. And a few times, when I was in the
circle and a motorist seemed to approach too fast, I've held out my
hand, palm facing the driver in a traffic cop "stop" signal. They've
always yielded.

I think with that kind of behavior a roundabout is safer than the
alternatives - stop signs or traffic lights. They're certainly more
convenient.

I'm much more skeptical of roundabouts with two lanes in the circle.
I've read and believe that they are much more dangerous for cyclists.
And I feel the same about roundabouts that contain bike lanes within the
circle. Those are just nuts. They tell the cyclist to ride off to the
right where drivers will lose track of them and do right hooks or
pull-outs.

[I've added r.b.tech. I know Andrew doesn't like roundabouts, so I'm
giving him a chance to respond.]

--
- Frank Krygowski

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 by: pH - Mon, 25 Oct 2021 03:27 UTC

On 2021-10-25, Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 10/24/2021 4:26 PM, pH wrote:
>> A cyclist's family is filing suit after a May (I think) fatal accident in
>> Lafayette, CA.
>>
>> http://www.wintercyclingblog.org/2021/10/23/legal-claim-filed-against-lafayette-over-cyclists-death-at-controversial-roundabout-the-mercury-news/
>>
>> Roudabouts seem like a busy one would be very hard to negotiate, given that
>> a lot of motorists already seem to be having trouble with them.
>>
>> I know I've seen one in Napa, CA that I would not care to try, it's so busy.
>>
>> Do they have these in Portland, J. Beattie?
>>
>> Has anyone tried them?
>>
>> pH in Aptos
>
> We have two relatively new roundabouts within about five miles of our
> home, and another new one within ten miles. These are all single lane
> versions. I've also ridden quite a few of them in France.
>
I had thought from your previous posts that you might live in Arizona, but
now I think it may be Ohio (not that it really matters, I suppose).

> So far, I've had no trouble using them and no close calls, but one must
> be assertive. Of course, I absolutely take the lane approaching the
> roundabout and within the roundabout. And a few times, when I was in the
> circle and a motorist seemed to approach too fast, I've held out my
> hand, palm facing the driver in a traffic cop "stop" signal. They've
> always yielded.
>
> I think with that kind of behavior a roundabout is safer than the
> alternatives - stop signs or traffic lights. They're certainly more
> convenient.
>
> I'm much more skeptical of roundabouts with two lanes in the circle.
> I've read and believe that they are much more dangerous for cyclists.
> And I feel the same about roundabouts that contain bike lanes within the
> circle. Those are just nuts. They tell the cyclist to ride off to the
> right where drivers will lose track of them and do right hooks or
> pull-outs.

The busy one in Napa that I'm hesitant to try is a two concentric circle
variety...as is the one in Santa Cruz I'm thinking of.
The Santa Cruz one is more negeotiable seeming as it's a smaller scale and
slower traffic. I've yet to try it but try to avoid going to town whenever
I can, anyway.

>
> [I've added r.b.tech. I know Andrew doesn't like roundabouts, so I'm
> giving him a chance to respond.]
>

I thought about starting in .tech, but thought I'd try to be "proper". I'll
be curious to see if he comments.

pH

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From: am...@yellowjersey.org (AMuzi)
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 by: AMuzi - Mon, 25 Oct 2021 13:31 UTC

On 10/24/2021 8:23 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 10/24/2021 4:26 PM, pH wrote:
>> A cyclist's family is filing suit after a May (I think)
>> fatal accident in
>> Lafayette, CA.
>>
>> http://www.wintercyclingblog.org/2021/10/23/legal-claim-filed-against-lafayette-over-cyclists-death-at-controversial-roundabout-the-mercury-news/
>>
>>
>> Roudabouts seem like a busy one would be very hard to
>> negotiate, given that
>> a lot of motorists already seem to be having trouble with
>> them.
>>
>> I know I've seen one in Napa, CA that I would not care to
>> try, it's so busy.
>>
>> Do they have these in Portland, J. Beattie?
>>
>> Has anyone tried them?
>>
>> pH in Aptos
>
> We have two relatively new roundabouts within about five
> miles of our home, and another new one within ten miles.
> These are all single lane versions. I've also ridden quite a
> few of them in France.
>
> So far, I've had no trouble using them and no close calls,
> but one must be assertive. Of course, I absolutely take the
> lane approaching the roundabout and within the roundabout.
> And a few times, when I was in the circle and a motorist
> seemed to approach too fast, I've held out my hand, palm
> facing the driver in a traffic cop "stop" signal. They've
> always yielded.
>
> I think with that kind of behavior a roundabout is safer
> than the alternatives - stop signs or traffic lights.
> They're certainly more convenient.
>
> I'm much more skeptical of roundabouts with two lanes in the
> circle. I've read and believe that they are much more
> dangerous for cyclists.
> And I feel the same about roundabouts that contain bike
> lanes within the circle. Those are just nuts. They tell the
> cyclist to ride off to the right where drivers will lose
> track of them and do right hooks or pull-outs.
>
> [I've added r.b.tech. I know Andrew doesn't like
> roundabouts, so I'm giving him a chance to respond.]
>

I have nothing good to say about them. They're a creative
combination of antipersonnel devices in an oversized meat
grinder for vehicles. Riding a half mile or a mile extra to
avoid them is my personal solution.

--
Andrew Muzi
<www.yellowjersey.org/>
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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From: jbee...@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson)
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Subject: Re: Bicycles and Roundabouts.
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 by: Joy Beeson - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:35 UTC

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:31:02 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

> I have nothing good to say about them. They're a creative
> combination of antipersonnel devices in an oversized meat
> grinder for vehicles. Riding a half mile or a mile extra to
> avoid them is my personal solution.

By some miracle, roundabouts around here are designed by traffic
engineers, as witnessed by the "yield" signs in place of the city
fathers' beloved stop signs in places that teach drivers to ignore
stop signs.

The roundabouts work quite well -- though the first time I went
through our first roundabout, I pulled off the road and studied it for
a while before daring to enter. Another bewilderment happened a few
years later when I happened to have reason to drive out that way, but
I just followed the arrows and came out the other side.

When the roundabouts were first proposed, some folks worried about
drivers learning "the special rules of roundabouts". ??? The rules
in roundabouts are exactly the same as the rules everywhere else:
Traffic already in the roundabout has priority over traffic that
wishes to enter the roundabout, and a vehicle already in the
roundabout keeps going until it comes to the desired turn.

I haven't seen the newest roundabout at 255 E and Pierceton Road yet.
I dislike Pierceton because it has exactly the sour amount of traffic:
sparse enough that one has to signal to every car that comes along
that one has seen it, but not so sparse that one ever gets a rest
between signals. Rumor has it that the roundabout is all done; there
was a warning out a week or two ago that traffic would be seriously
backed up while they completed the landscaping. (I hope it doen't
inclued tall bushes in the circle; that's my only complaint about the
older roundabouts.)

So every time I turn left at the intersection of Winona Avenue,
Argonne Road, King's Highway, and Park Avenue, with the Argonne
traffic suddenly appearing out of a tunnel, I yell "come on
roundabout!" (We are finally next on the priority list.)

But if you want to explain to me how a two-lane roundabout is even
possible, you are going to have to use very short words and lots and
lots and lots of pictures.

--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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 by: Rolf Mantel - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:06 UTC

Am 26.10.2021 um 06:35 schrieb Joy Beeson:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:31:02 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>
>> I have nothing good to say about them. They're a creative
>> combination of antipersonnel devices in an oversized meat
>> grinder for vehicles. Riding a half mile or a mile extra to
>> avoid them is my personal solution.
>
> By some miracle, roundabouts around here are designed by traffic
> engineers, as witnessed by the "yield" signs in place of the city
> fathers' beloved stop signs in places that teach drivers to ignore
> stop signs.
>
> Rumor has it that the roundabout is all done; there
> was a warning out a week or two ago that traffic would be seriously
> backed up while they completed the landscaping. (I hope it doen't
> inclued tall bushes in the circle; that's my only complaint about the
> older roundabouts.)

The safety engineers know that the key safety design element on traffic
circles is vehicle speed. You wish to ensure that the sight lines are
such that
a) approaching vehicles don't see too early whether they need to stop,
so that they slow down to < 20 mph
b) vehicles entering the circle see perfectly well whether it's safe to
enter.

Combining these two, tall bushes in the middle of the circle are a
safety feature.

Rolf

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 by: Frank Krygowski - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:59 UTC

On 10/26/2021 12:35 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:
>
>
> ... But if you want to explain to me how a two-lane roundabout is even
> possible, you are going to have to use very short words and lots and
> lots and lots of pictures.

I'm very skeptical about two lane roundabouts. I've encountered only
one, about an hour's drive from here, and I've used it only when
motoring. I was going straight through (so to speak) and stayed in the
outer lane.

Perhaps the inner lane is for passing when there's a backup stopping
traffic in the outer lane? I don't know.

--
- Frank Krygowski

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 by: Rolf Mantel - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:36 UTC

Am 26.10.2021 um 16:59 schrieb Frank Krygowski:
> On 10/26/2021 12:35 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:
>>
>> ... But if you want to explain to me how a two-lane roundabout is
>> even possible, you are going to have to use very short words and
>> lots and lots and lots of pictures.
>
> I'm very skeptical about two lane roundabouts. I've encountered only
> one, about an hour's drive from here, and I've used it only when
> motoring. I was going straight through (so to speak) and stayed in
> the outer lane.
>
> Perhaps the inner lane is for passing when there's a backup stopping
> traffic in the outer lane? I don't know.

In the UK, multi-lane roundabouts are the most common "high-speed" (say
40 mph on the straight leg) traffic junctions to save some money where
every sane person would build an overpass (plus simple traffic lights)
instead.

The "classic two-lane roundabout" similar to
<https://goo.gl/maps/E9virNeyxTUye6zW8>
also has two approach lanes on each side, the right lane for "right or
straight", the left lane for "left or straight" plus two-lane exit at
each exit (this picture shows that you can add additional "bypass lanes"
for "turn at first exit" to increase capacity without breaking the base
design).

The driving rules are:
1) entering from the right lane you join the right lane of the
roundabout, entering on the left lane you join the left lane of the
roundabout. On entering you yield to potentially conflicting traffic.
2) on the "outside" lane (left in UK, right in US) you go at most two exits.
3) on the "inside" lane (right in UK, left in US) you go at least two exits
4) you do not change lane when exiting (i.e. outside lane in roundabout
goes to outside lane of road, inside lane of roundabout goes to inside
lane of road).

Really insane "multi-lane roundabouts"
https://goo.gl/maps/ar1eYG7VJkNpR2aa7
have directional lane markings. Typically the entry routes have a
similar number of lanes as the roundabout lanes while the exit lanes
only have two lanes.
At this type of roundabout, the lane markings are not concentric but
lead to a certain exit. This specific roundabout is additionally
traffic-light controlled at peak hours.

In the 1990's, I had to cycle through that roundabout for 40% of my
"sunday trips" (everything heading south); I see that now there is a
parallel bicylce bridge over the motorway allowing today's cyclists to
avoid that hellhole completely.

Rolf

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 by: sms - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:00 UTC

On 10/26/2021 8:36 AM, Rolf Mantel wrote:
> Am 26.10.2021 um 16:59 schrieb Frank Krygowski:
>> On 10/26/2021 12:35 AM, Joy Beeson wrote:
>>>
>>> ... But if you want to explain to me how a two-lane roundabout is
>>> even possible, you are going to have to use very short words and lots
>>> and lots and lots of pictures.
>>
>> I'm very skeptical about two lane roundabouts. I've encountered only
>> one, about an hour's drive from here, and I've used it only when
>> motoring. I was going straight through (so to speak) and stayed in the
>> outer lane.
>>
>> Perhaps the inner lane is for passing when there's a backup stopping
>> traffic in the outer lane? I don't know.
>
> In the UK, multi-lane roundabouts are the most common "high-speed" (say
> 40 mph on the straight leg) traffic junctions to save some money where
> every sane person would build an overpass (plus simple traffic lights)
> instead.

At least any sane person with £50 million or so to spend.

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 by: Duane - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:06 UTC

Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:
> Am 26.10.2021 um 06:35 schrieb Joy Beeson:
>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:31:02 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I have nothing good to say about them. They're a creative
>>> combination of antipersonnel devices in an oversized meat
>>> grinder for vehicles. Riding a half mile or a mile extra to
>>> avoid them is my personal solution.
>>
>> By some miracle, roundabouts around here are designed by traffic
>> engineers, as witnessed by the "yield" signs in place of the city
>> fathers' beloved stop signs in places that teach drivers to ignore
>> stop signs.
>>
>> Rumor has it that the roundabout is all done; there
>> was a warning out a week or two ago that traffic would be seriously
>> backed up while they completed the landscaping. (I hope it doen't
>> inclued tall bushes in the circle; that's my only complaint about the
>> older roundabouts.)
>
> The safety engineers know that the key safety design element on traffic
> circles is vehicle speed. You wish to ensure that the sight lines are
> such that
> a) approaching vehicles don't see too early whether they need to stop,
> so that they slow down to < 20 mph
> b) vehicles entering the circle see perfectly well whether it's safe to
> enter.
>
> Combining these two, tall bushes in the middle of the circle are a
> safety feature.
>
> Rolf
>

Limiting the motorist’s view of me on my bike as he’s speeding around the
turn? Please stop trying to protect me…

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 by: AMuzi - Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:16 UTC

On 10/26/2021 5:06 PM, Duane wrote:
> Rolf Mantel <news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:
>> Am 26.10.2021 um 06:35 schrieb Joy Beeson:
>>> On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 08:31:02 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have nothing good to say about them. They're a creative
>>>> combination of antipersonnel devices in an oversized meat
>>>> grinder for vehicles. Riding a half mile or a mile extra to
>>>> avoid them is my personal solution.
>>>
>>> By some miracle, roundabouts around here are designed by traffic
>>> engineers, as witnessed by the "yield" signs in place of the city
>>> fathers' beloved stop signs in places that teach drivers to ignore
>>> stop signs.
>>>
>>> Rumor has it that the roundabout is all done; there
>>> was a warning out a week or two ago that traffic would be seriously
>>> backed up while they completed the landscaping. (I hope it doen't
>>> inclued tall bushes in the circle; that's my only complaint about the
>>> older roundabouts.)
>>
>> The safety engineers know that the key safety design element on traffic
>> circles is vehicle speed. You wish to ensure that the sight lines are
>> such that
>> a) approaching vehicles don't see too early whether they need to stop,
>> so that they slow down to < 20 mph
>> b) vehicles entering the circle see perfectly well whether it's safe to
>> enter.
>>
>> Combining these two, tall bushes in the middle of the circle are a
>> safety feature.
>>
>> Rolf
>>
>
> Limiting the motorist’s view of me on my bike as he’s speeding around the
> turn? Please stop trying to protect me…
>
+1

--
Andrew Muzi
<www.yellowjersey.org/>
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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 by: NFN Smith - Wed, 27 Oct 2021 00:01 UTC

Frank Krygowski wrote:
>
> I'm very skeptical about two lane roundabouts. I've encountered only
> one, about an hour's drive from here, and I've used it only when
> motoring. I was going straight through (so to speak) and stayed in the
> outer lane.
>
> Perhaps the inner lane is for passing when there's a backup stopping
> traffic in the outer lane? I don't know.

I've actually driven a 3-lane round-about. This was in a country that
drives on the right side of the road. It takes a little getting used to
(and I never saw it in high-volume traffic), but if you're in the left
lane, you stay in the left lane, and all the way to the inner lane in
the roundabout, and then stay in that lane coming out.

Yes, you're crossing lanes of traffic, and I've forgotten the exact
technique for doing it (especially if you're trying to exit from an
inner lane, and the driver next to you in an outer lane wants to keep
going), but it does work, and surprisingly better than seems intuitively
possible. I think part of it is a combination of traffic not going
especially fast, and that there's a lot more staggering of traffic (and
spaces for merging and cross-overs) than you would assume.

In the UK, I've seen a number of roundabouts in urban areas with heavy
traffic that have signal lights, where you don't enter until you get a
green light. The timing on the lights is such to allow the roundabout
to (mostly clear) before new traffic is admitted, including that they
don't allow for turn on red, either. This is especially the case with
roundabouts that aren't truly round, but more ovals or rectangles that
may be longer and narrower than the stereotypical "roundabout".

No, I haven't tried to navigate any of those on a bicycle.

Smith

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 by: sms - Wed, 27 Oct 2021 02:55 UTC

On 10/26/2021 5:01 PM, NFN Smith wrote:

<snip>

> Yes, you're crossing lanes of traffic, and I've forgotten the exact
> technique for doing it (especially if you're trying to exit from an
> inner lane, and the driver next to you in an outer lane wants to keep
> going), but it does work, and surprisingly better than seems intuitively
> possible.  I think part of it is a combination of traffic not going
> especially fast, and that there's a lot more staggering of traffic (and
> spaces for merging and cross-overs) than you would assume.

We had multi-lane roundabouts in the city I grew up in, for two major
roads with three lanes in each direction, but also two other minor
streets. For locals, they learned how to use them, with all the weaving,
but it wasn't a stress-free experience. For tourists, and we had a lot
of tourists, it was confusing, including some drivers that would try to
go clockwise instead of counter-clockwise.

Now they are talking about turning the current one-way traffic circle
into "the world's largest two-way traffic circle," with predictions
about it actually working ranging from 25% to 100% (100% is from the
designer).

"The new plan calls for two-way traffic, with cars in the outer lanes
traveling counterclockwise as they do now and cars in the innermost
lanes moving in a clockwise direction." Maybe they could put some
two-way protected bike lanes in the middle (being sarcastic). They can't
get rid of the circle, it's a large circle with a park in the center and
it's been there for nearly 100 year and it has eight places to enter and
exit the circle.

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 by: AMuzi - Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:26 UTC

On 10/26/2021 9:55 PM, sms wrote:
> On 10/26/2021 5:01 PM, NFN Smith wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Yes, you're crossing lanes of traffic, and I've forgotten
>> the exact technique for doing it (especially if you're
>> trying to exit from an inner lane, and the driver next to
>> you in an outer lane wants to keep going), but it does
>> work, and surprisingly better than seems intuitively
>> possible. I think part of it is a combination of traffic
>> not going especially fast, and that there's a lot more
>> staggering of traffic (and spaces for merging and
>> cross-overs) than you would assume.
>
> We had multi-lane roundabouts in the city I grew up in, for
> two major roads with three lanes in each direction, but also
> two other minor streets. For locals, they learned how to use
> them, with all the weaving, but it wasn't a stress-free
> experience. For tourists, and we had a lot of tourists, it
> was confusing, including some drivers that would try to go
> clockwise instead of counter-clockwise.
>
> Now they are talking about turning the current one-way
> traffic circle into "the world's largest two-way traffic
> circle," with predictions about it actually working ranging
> from 25% to 100% (100% is from the designer).
>
> "The new plan calls for two-way traffic, with cars in the
> outer lanes traveling counterclockwise as they do now and
> cars in the innermost lanes moving in a clockwise
> direction." Maybe they could put some two-way protected bike
> lanes in the middle (being sarcastic). They can't get rid of
> the circle, it's a large circle with a park in the center
> and it's been there for nearly 100 year and it has eight
> places to enter and exit the circle.
>
>

The more efficient way to that goal is a figure-8 course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3kLPZHFYE

--
Andrew Muzi
<www.yellowjersey.org/>
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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 by: Doc O'Leary - Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:08 UTC

For your reference, records indicate that
pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> wrote:

> http://www.wintercyclingblog.org/2021/10/23/legal-claim-filed-against-lafayette-over-cyclists-death-at-controversial-roundabout-the-mercury-news/
>
> Roudabouts seem like a busy one would be very hard to negotiate, given that
> a lot of motorists already seem to be having trouble with them.

We have an increasing number of them in the Twin Cities. The first one I saw was at:

<maps:q=44.916486740112305,-93.21332931518555>
<geo:44.916486740112305,-93.21332931518555>

I had an accident there on my motorcycle soon after it was introduced (~20
years ago) because someone in a van didn’t see me and simply drove into
the circle without yielding to me. But even just in the last week going
through on my bicycle, I had to brake and swerve to avoid a car driver
doing the same thing. I’ve learned to be ready for that kind of stupidity,
so my only advice would be along the lines of the ol’ “ride like you’re
invisible”.

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"Also . . . I can kill you with my brain."
River Tam, Trash, Firefly

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