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Kenneth Crudup 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.
> 
> In article <7su8d2$4lo$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net>,
> "Stuart Smith" <stuartsmith1@mindspring.com> says:
> 
> >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.
> 
> No flame from me- it's the God's honest truth. I used to live in MA, and
> inevitably *both* people in and people entering would slow/stop, bringing
> the whole flow down. I tried to make sure I was at "pole position" at
> the entrance to a rotary, and just wound around the other cars.
> 

Agreed... when learning to drive, I used to crawl around rotaries...
nowadays, in my part of the UK, there are so many of the things that
just about all the drivers are good at them ... average traffic speed on
the rotary is about 30mph (or more on the big ones) ... it's all just a
case of looking well ahead, and timing the approach.

Have any US people with UK driving experience got any comments on
differences in traffic behaviour around these things?

MH.

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