[QUOTE=hazelnut]We have a couple of traffic circles here where I live full time. The signs tell you who should Yield yet people still come blasting in to the circle as if they have the right of way. QUOTE]
It amazes me each morning as I head off to work and have to merge with another on ramp line which has a
Yield sign to my on ramp - the amount of idiots and careless drivers who would risk getting into an auto accident at a major highway on ramp rather than obey the law and let the right of way folks get ahead of them. My daughter used to ask "daddy why did you beep the horn at that driver" - now when I beep the horn she simply says 'guess they forgot to yield again, didn't they daddy." At age 7 she already knows the concept!!
It's become "I gotta get there first and fastest" as opposed to "I gotta get there!"
As for traffic circles - there is a notorious one in Methuen, MA - which unfortunately backs up traffic onto 93 because -- yes, you guessed it -- people are clueless on right of way and entering one of these things. Even though this particular "rotary" has been there since I-93 was built in the 60's!
North Andover, MA is planning one for its Olde Center - its taken them 4 years to do the preconstruction work - it'll be another 4 to get the rotary in place and another 40 before folks understand how to drive in it!
