• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
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    16 days ago

    Also; convert to roundabouts and you don’t need traffic lights at all. Traffic lights are expensive to buy and they use a fuck load of electricity. Also, fewer fatal accidents with roundabouts.

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      16 days ago

      I agree with this in spirit but they’ve actually installed traffic lights at existing roundabouts because I assume the smartphone-obsessed drivers kept causing accidents.

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      14 days ago

      Roundabouts really suck when they’re saturated, even worse than standard light-controlled intersections. That’s why there are still traffic lights controlling entry into roundabouts in high-volume cases.

      Uncontrolled roundabouts work best at medium to low traffic volumes.