[quoted lines by Shawn Kirkpatrick on 2017/08/24 at 14:07 -0700] >circles? I think those are where cars go around until they can turn >on to the street they want.
A turning circle is a widened round area at the end of a dead-end road that one can easily turn around within. A round-about is a full circle ring road, i.e. there's a non-road center, that's used instead of a traffic light. All of the roads for the intersection enter/leave the outer edge of the ring road. You enter the round-about and then turn in the direction that's the same as the side of the roead you're on - so to the right in North America, to the left in the UK, etc - such that you aren't crossing any traffic within the round-about. You then continue around the round-about until you get to the road you want to be on, and turn onto it. If you're just going to the next road then you stay in the outer lane whereas if you're going further than the next road then you drive in one of the inner lanes. A round-about lets you drive through a busy intersection without stopping. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | http://Mielke.cc/ Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | The Bible is the very Word of God. _______________________________________________ Loadstone mailing list [email protected] http://lists.loadstone-gps.com/listinfo/loadstone
