Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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From: Ricardo
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:00

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An engem Artikel vum 30 Sep 1999 15:18:02 GMT huet
TheCentralScrutinizer.164@pobox.com () geschriwen:

>>Sure we do.  The cars in the rotary have the right of way.  Cars
>>entering the rotary  must yield, slowing down at a minimum, stopping
>>if needed.  Cars behind them also need to slow down or stop.  Do this
>>on a weekend where a rotary is on a divided highway, and guess what?
>>Traffic backs up from the Cape all the way to Boston and Providence.
>
>Except for connecticut which for some goofy reason gives right of way to
>cars entering the rotary. 

It's called "priorit� � droite". Most of Europe uses this system
except that our rotaries are usually marked with "yield" triangles
so as to override it. However, unmarked or "X"-marked intersections,
as well as many other types of junction, still apply this old
system.

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From: Ricardo <ricardow@village.uunet.lu>
Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/10/12
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