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Article #8463Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
From: Leroy Curtis
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00
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In article <37F3DBD0.C8ABB7D8@pergolesi.demon.co.uk>, Martin Harvey <martin@pergolesi.demon.co.uk> writes >John_David_Galt@acm.org wrote: >> >> 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). > > >An additional thought: the number of lanes on a rotary is obviously a >measure of the average drivers competence at using them. Close to where >I live there's a three lane rotary, which most of us use with no >problems at all. I beleive there's a 5 or 6 lane one with lights (!?) >around it ... do the words "Hangar lane roundabout in Hammersmith" >strike a chord for any UK readers. > The Hanger Lane Gyratory System, to use it's proper name, does indeed have 6 lanes at one point of its circumference, and traffic lights at the entry points, at the ends of the approach roads; many other roundabouts have these traffic lights now. -- Regards Leroy Curtis Please replace "nospam" with "baram" in my address if you wish to reply by Email
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a40312b6223a4ae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,a40312b6223a4ae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a40312b6223a4ae4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public From: Leroy Curtis <leroy@nospam.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights Date: 1999/10/01 Message-ID: <qtJyyAAnSQ93EwL+@baram.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 531671911 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: baram.demon.co.uk:158.152.123.187 References: <7sp72a$jgs$1@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <vSrwN=7LUg0MRuERVhyTCFjZV4tm@4ax.com> <7spn56$atk$1@nntp5.atl.mindspring.net> <slrn7v1qrj.if.TheCentralScrutinizer.163@edison.chisp.net> <7sqvir$ept$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <7sr936$8so$4@news-int.gatech.edu> <3zvxNxgSRxOBlcHAFJPgVrfxQ3Lq@4ax.com> <yobd7v1g3uv.fsf@panix.com> <37f860b7.182518588@news.texas.net> <9Y3yN+h7Zxhp8BYLwuVDitKgkz0q@4ax.com> <7su8d2$4lo$1@nntp4.atl.mindspring.net> <37F2CBCC.F6752E8E@acm.org> <37F3DBD0.C8ABB7D8@pergolesi.demon.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 938809309 nnrp-08:18152 NO-IDENT baram.demon.co.uk:158.152.123.187 Organization: None MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: Leroy Curtis <leroy@baram.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: misc.consumers,rec.autos.driving,ca.driving