Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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From: TheCentralScrutinizer.164
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 00:00

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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 22:02:41 -0400, X Metro Man <pdcorc@excite.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:50:48 -0400, "Stuart Smith"
><stuartsmith1@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>X Metro Man wrote in message <9Y3yN+h7Zxhp8BYLwuVDitKgkz0q@4ax.com>...
>>>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.
>>
>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.

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From: TheCentralScrutinizer.164@pobox.com ()
Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/09/30
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