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Originally Posted by Half-Axed
Yeah it’s a tough call. I wrote my impressions as I tried to visualize the paths I would take through it and I think it would work for me…but I’m very comfortable entering and exiting roundabouts. And like I said I find Haligonians tend to be very timid about merging in moving traffic without coming to a near stop first. I fear you’re probably right and it’ll be just as if there were still stop signs.
Other roundabouts in the city seem to work fairly well most times when I use them. I’ve never used the Armdale one at rush hour though - is it any better now than years ago?
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I don't find that Haligonians are as timid in roundabouts as you suggest - as mentioned many tend to fly through the Uteck ones. My main worry there is that some sections necessitate exiting from the left (inside) lane of the circle, and there's a possibility of getting hit by an overconfident motorist entering the circle in the right lane who doesn't understand that you can exit from the left lane. Hasn't happened to me yet, though (knock on wood)...
For Armdale, my only experience was trying to enter from Chebucto Road to go to Herring Cove Road during afternoon rush hour. It took forever to get into the circle because of the constant traffic coming from Quinpool.
Rush hour heavy traffic is where roundabouts show their weaknesses if you're not in the main stream of traffic, IMHO. You can get hung out to dry at entrances that are not in the main flow. On the other hand it may be better for overall traffic flow for the main commuter routes, I can't say.
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