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someone told me americans don’t have roundabouts and i’ve been thinking about it all week
how
Wtf is a roundabout?
i’m shook
it has come to my attention some people are not acquainted with roundabouts (latin roundus boutus). here is a handy guide for spotting different types in the wild:
this is a common/garden roundabout in its natural habitat. it prefers rain and dying grass as food sources.
this is its child. it may appear small and unassuming, but just watch it take down even the mighty range rover as it tries to make the tight bend.
sometimes they have twins instead. they resemble a pair of glasses, or tits. i once watched an old lady drive straight through both unharmed. would not recommend. deceptively dangerous.
this is a fancy ass roundabout, the average roundabout’s cousin. it has just returned from its gap year in thailand. its hobbies include condescendingly explaining simple concepts using complicated words and smiling with an air of superiority.
lastly, the most feared kind. only the bravest may take on this wild beast and survive. this is the magic roundabout. its young grow around it in grotesque sacs, bewildering the unlucky driver just trying to pop to the shops to get some milk. it is too late to save him now. tell his family he loved them. this is the end. the magic roundabout is the only true god. fear him.
where da fuck is that last one located so i can never go there in my life because what the actual hell
Columbus Circle, New York City. Idk what kinda shit y’all are on that you can’t do a google.
bruh I grew up surrounded by them. we call them traffic circles. people get confused sometimes but most of us are pretty familiar with them.
Latham Circle, in New York State, approximately near Albany, where I learned to drive; there’s a diner over there on the upper right and there’s a club that sits and watches drivers to see if people mess up and have to go around the circle more than once, and even better more than twice. the official record was eventually deliberately shattered by someone who set out to do so, though, and went around the circle several dozen times.
300 miles away, where I live now, Buffalo’s full of them. Symphony Circle, Gates Circle, I can’t remember the name of the one where there’s always like tire tracks going into the middle because drunks get confused–
(Bonus with the one above, Chapin Parkway is two ways both ways but really shouldn’t be. The truly fucked-up intersection is the not-circle where all those bits come together, just offscreen to the upper left.)
Isn’t that one pretty? Blame Frederick Law Olmsted, who really wasn’t thinking about cars. It’s awful pretty though.
and it’s not like they’re all old either. Recently Malta, NY got a bunch of industrial development and decided to replace most of their stoplights with traffic circles for unknown reasons.
These are just ones I can think of that I’ve recently driven through myself without, like, Googling or reminding myself or anything.
So like. No, we don’t have roundabouts, because they’re not called that here. But if you’re an American driver and don’t know how to navigate a traffic circle, well– I mean, America’s a big place and most of it’s not congested enough to bother, but honestly these aren’t difficult and if you just keep an eye to the left and don’t do anything stupid you’ll be fine, because they’re a pretty normal thing around here and most drivers don’t lose their heads.
Oh I guess the main one in Buffalo is confusing because it’s a square. And it’s a shitty traffic pattern. But. Bruh.
(that’s city hall on the left. it’s funny because it looks like a wang. thank you for taking this tour of buffalo with me. you’re welcome.)
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