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[-] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

don’t need to dramatically lower speeds

They lower speeds, just not to a stop which is good for traffic throughput and emissions.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Plus pedestrians don't have to look both ways to cross, since traffic is only coming from one direction

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's only if you are crossing through a roundabout, which I've never seen for pedestrians. Pedestrians have to walk around the roundabout as well, crossing the two way streets that leads up to it and still having to look both ways for cars leaving and entering the roundabout. This is usually helped by a median but a regular intersection can have a median as well to accomplish the same thing. These medians will also usually create a slip though like the author says in the video, which allows cars to take right turns at speed, if the roundabout is empty, without checking for the crosswalk they're turning into.

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