[Talk-us] First bona fide mini-roundabout spotted

[Apollinaris Schöll]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Nathan Mills <nathan at nwacg.net> wrote:

> So this is not/should not be a mini_roundabout? It seems a little silly to
> call it anything else, since the city just dug a hole in the center of the
> existing intersection, built a circular curb, and planted a tree:
>
> http://g.co/maps/e2gsv
>


It's a normal roundabout. Tough normally a roundabout is signed. without
any lane markings, no yield signs or other signs to tell how to pass trough
one could argue it's entirely legal to take a direct left turn instead
going around 270 degree. Then it's not more than a traffic calming structure


>
> What about this one? Also a full on roundabout?
>
> http://g.co/maps/d6n74
>

 same as above


> This looks more like a roundabout to me:
>
> http://g.co/maps/hnbp9
>
>
yes definitely.


> -Nathan
>
> On 5/7/2012 8:46 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> This one surprised me, was pretty sure that the US didn't have real
>> mini roundabouts, but I just spotted one in Burien, WA.
>> http://g.co/maps/afh8m
>>
>> ______________________________**_________________
>> Talk-us mailing list
>> Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
>> http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-us<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us>
>>
>
>
> ______________________________**_________________
> Talk-us mailing list
> Talk-us at openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-us<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20120507/d69467b8/attachment.html>