On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:08:02 -0800, Charlie E. <edmondson_at_ieee.org> wrote:
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 15:38:28 -0800 (PST), stans4_at_prolynx.com wrote:
On Feb 7, 9:08 pm, Sylvia Else <syl...@not.at.this.address> wrote:
On 8/02/2010 12:27 AM, David Billington wrote:
Ed Huntress wrote:
"Sylvia Else" <syl...@not.at.this.address> wrote in message
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On 7/02/2010 5:45 AM, Jon Anderson wrote:
T wrote:
Interesting. A little disorienting, not used to driving on the other
side of the road!
It's not that hard at first, so long as you focus and pay attention.
It's right when you think you've got it, that you'll pull out into the
wrong side of the road...
Or, as seems likely to have happened to a US couple on holiday here
in Australia in a case reported on the news a while back, look the
wrong way before pulling out in front of a truck :(
Sylvia.
Terror for an American driver is a roundabout in Britain. As I
approach one, my palms begin to sweat. Then my head begins to ache.
Traffic diagrams appear in my head. I bite my lip...
What does this do for you then
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/image_galleries/wiltshire_live...
, Swindons "Magic Roundabout". I've not driven it recently but I
understand it can still give drivers used to roundabouts a problem.
Ye Gods! What purpose does that serve? How many accidents a day do they
get there? Reply using scientific notation if necessary.
A particular observation for US readers - from the perspective of
British drivers, they're going the wrong way around the middle circle.
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Noticed that. I guess you get extra points for head-ons at the
"bullseyes".
Had my experience with "rotaries" up in NH. Had to go to the shipyard
up there, so headed up the tollway per instructions, got off at the
last NH exit and immediately hit the rotary. Instructions said that
the hotel was right off Highway 1. There were three Highway 1 exits
from that stinkin' thing! Went around a couple of times seeing if I
could see any sort of signage, finally stopped at the last-chance
liquor store right on the rotary and phoned the joint up( no cells
back then). "Oh, we're right off Highway 1, you can't miss it!".
Yeah, like 1/2 a mile off it, when I found it! Drove past it 3 times
after I got off the rotary.
Not a happy camper when they redid the closed air base here with
multiple rotary/roundabouts on the main drag through the place.
Supposed to keep dragsters out, all it did was make them lean a bit
more when they went around the curves at speed. Fire department with
the ladder trucks hates them, too. Would like to know the accident
statistics, they've built up the centers so you can't see what's
coming at you. Crowned with the usual scrap metal "sculptures" they
stick in open spaces around here.
Stan
Visited Sedonna last year, where they are putting these in on the
major highway through town. They are too tight an angle for a
tractor-trailer, so every one of them have tire tracks along the side
where the trailers just go right over the curbs...
charlie
advanced than standard pencil and paper drafting methods. It actually
paper. Most likely it is just young punks (under 35) that can't think.