[talk-au] Aligning steets

[Brett Russell]

Hi
 
I can assure you that the Devonport City Council is in love with converting standard intersections into min round-abouts with high raised flower beds which means unless you drive a tank your vehicle is going to get hurt.  Most have a large mountable curb areas for trucks and buses but as mentioned a solid inner.  In fact any barrier or road side furniture is being put in at a rate that makes you think that the city engineer has shares in these companies.  I will leave it up to letters to the paper to describe the residents views of such things but they do exist.
 
Cheers
 



Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:22:25 +1000
From: slhope at gmail.com
To: talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

I've seen it flatly stated that Australia didn't have any real mini-roundabouts.  That may have been true once, but the last few new roundabouts I've seen built near me have all been either true mini roundabouts (nothing but paint) or a couple where there is a raised centre concrete disc, but it's only raised about a cm, and is fully traversable.  I'm not sure why they've started appearing.




Stephen



On 15 September 2012 22:26, Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com> wrote:


Hi Brett,
 
You've just said a *really" controversial phrase  (mini roundabouts).
 
In Australia there is a  *LOT* of history surrounding these things.
I do have a definite opinion on them but I reckon it would be best (if not unbearably tedious) for you to read the many vitiolic posts on this subject on talk-au.
 
Cheers
Nick
 
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