ok - so I am a non technical person and I see alot of smart people belong to this site. So here is my question....
A developer wants to put a roundabout in the intersection near my house - truth be told it is on my corner. This is a rural township - should I be concerned? I know that they are all around the UK and Europe, but roundabouts are somewhat of an anomaly in rural Pennsyvania - what do you experts think?
My firm to date has designed 16 roundabouts, 6 are currently built and being used,
our first was a urabn roundabout in Glens fall NY, as part of a downtown streetscape
came out great and most love it over the old 8 minute delay at the signal
I put a pin in Google maps on zip code 19343 - can you see it? Sorry for the delay in response, vacation, zip code 04457 got in the way
We are familiar with the ones on Route 15 in PA - Hanover and Oxford, I believe. They work well and have been there for years. People tell us the ones in NJ don't work so well. Europe, of course, is full of them and sometimes it is just a light bubble in the middle of the intersection.
You mean a circle? :) They used to be all over the place in jersey where I grew up. They've slowly started to be replaced with intersections that have smart traffic lights. In a case where traffic started to get bad in one area they put traffic lights on the entrances to the circle. It was a little crazy.
From what's I've seen in PA people don't know how to merge or yield so a circle could be a real problem ;)