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In article <37F2CBCC.F6752E8E@acm.org>,  <John_David_Galt@acm.org> wrote:
}>> Ever try to get to Cape Cod during the summer?  Damned rotaries back
}>> up traffic for MILES.  The reason they're still there is because the
}>> businesses abutting the rotaries have lots of pull on Beacon Hill.
}
}> This isn't intended to start a flame war, but part of the reason may be that
}> Americans don't know how to use them correctly.
}
}Okay, I'll bite.  I stop at the stop sign on entering the rotary, wait
}for an opening, then go.  The stop, and the sharp curve, are responsible
}for most of the time wasted (that and the fact that rotaries are usually
}only one lane wide, because if they weren't you'd need to put all-way
}stops at each entrance to them or chaos would result).
}
}Please tell me what I'm doing wrong, and how to get through faster by
}"using them correctly".

The rotary is too narrow (should be at least 2 lanes wide), and there
sure as hell shouldn't be a stop sign on the entrance!  Even New
Jersey isn't that bad.  You're supposed to enter, swing around the
rotary, and exit without stopping.


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Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."