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  • #61
    BEcause it encourages stopping traffic
    oh dear , we wouldn't like that. Let's have all our traffic lights always be green .
    Come to a complete stop at a stop sign? Yeah...right
    I don't believe you guys !!!!
    urgh.NSFW

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    • #62
      There's like three of them in downtown Annapolis. Quite annoying. I'll stick to the suburbs where everything are straight lines or 90 degree turns.
      "Let us kill the English! Their concept of individual rights could undermine the power of our beloved tyrants!"

      ~Lisa as Jeanne d'Arc

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      • #63
        We have one right outside of our school. It's pleasant and nice in times of low traffic, but gets into nasty snarls when traffic is busy.
        John Brown did nothing wrong.

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        • #64
          ROUNDABOUT you say..hmm

          Lets think,,Oh yeah..I remember from the 70's...one of my Favorite songs..yup..from the group YES

          Simply an awesome jam..hmm..for the younger generation, that means K E W L
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          Hi, I'm RAH and I'm a Benaholic.-rah

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          • #65
            With no Driver's Education:
            Licence at 16 (years old)

            With Driver's Ed:
            Learners permit at 14 1/2
            Licence at 15
            In Colorado, they just changed the law so that you must be 18 to get a license (I just slipped in in time). Before that though, you could get a learner's permit at 15 with driver's ed, and 15 1/2 without. Here, we require 50 mandatory hours of driving before liscensing (though you can easily cheat). You must also pass a written test (through driver's ed or the DMV) and a practical test (for me, both through driver's ed and the DMV). I imagine people will become better drivers here, as they will now be forced to spend 3 years on a learner's permit before being unleashed. (According to AAA the average person requires 5 years of driving to be at par with the general public)

            Edit: And roundabouts: I hate them. Not so much because of anything they do to traffic as that they catch me off guard. I know of two in my area, one of which can actually be quite confusing the first one or two times through.
            "Beauty is not in the face...Beauty is a light in the heart." - Kahlil Gibran
            "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves" - Victor Hugo
            "It is noble to be good; it is still nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble." - Mark Twain

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            • #66
              Roundabouts are GREAT!



              Great for keeping the traffic flowing and preventing jams...

              The only probs are the odd one which isn't properly considered/built when you're the one waiting to squeeze into a seemingly interminable stream of traffic...

              I just drove over 6500 miles in the US (Not Chicago mind you) and don't remember seeing very many at all - there were some in DC and very good they were too!

              Oh, they have some in MA too...
              Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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              • #67
                Oh, yes I forgot to mention something else that might have scared Azazel away. Until about 1999, there was no speed limit on the highways in Montana. My 6th grade english teacher was always telling us about his 100+ MPH drives around the city.
                Talent Optional

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                • #68
                  Ah, Montana...the 'American Autobahn'...
                  No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                  • #69
                    we have a few in our city. we don't call them roundabouts. or do we?

                    heck if I know

                    I almost got rear ended in one of them. I was supposed to yield. The guy behind me honked his horn and almost hit me. I was yielding.

                    next time I won't yield.

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by CapitanGarlic
                      Oh, yes I forgot to mention something else that might have scared Azazel away. Until about 1999, there was no speed limit on the highways in Montana. My 6th grade english teacher was always telling us about his 100+ MPH drives around the city.
                      That no speed limit deal had only been around since the early 90's I believe. That is when the fed. government did away with the 55 MPH limit and let states make their own limits.
                      Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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