Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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From: Brandon Sommerville
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 00:00

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Shiva Nataraja wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:20:29 +0100, Martin Harvey
><martin@pergolesi.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>John_David_Galt@acm.org wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Okay, I'll bite.  I stop at the stop sign on entering the rotary, 
>>
>>You stop? That just makes things harder.... 
>
>Either you missed the fact that there is a STOP SIGN at the entrance,
>or you are advocating breaking the law. Which is it?

Neither.  The fact remains that if you *have* to stop it makes using
the rotary more inefficient.

>My guess is that in the UK rotaries don't have stop signs and you can
>just roll on in. Of the two I've seen in America (one in Des PLaines,
>Il, the other in Orange, CA) both has stop signs at the entrances.

We have a couple in Edmonton, AB and IIRC they both have yield signs
on them.
-- 
Brandon

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and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

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From: Brandon Sommerville <gti@null.net.gov>
Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/10/02
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