LMAO - a roundabout at 1604 and potranco?

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AggieDarlin
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http://www.city-data.com/forum/san-antonio/1994850-roundabouts-instead-bridges.html



[This message has been edited by AggieDarlin (edited 11/18/2013 7:09p).]
Goodnight Irene
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look kids, Big Ben


like 80% of San Antonio drivers will be able to figure out a roundabout when merge lanes prove too confusing!
AAM02
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Maybe we could implement them in a roundabout way by removing all the traffic lights?
TX AG 88
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Someone posts (or used to post) on TexAgs that was a traffic engineer. He once discussed the tradeoffs of 4-way stops vs roundabouts vs traffic lights, etc. Each has its place, depending on the volume of traffic. He also discssed how the length of the backed up lane(s) of traffic grows when the maximum traffic load for each is exceeded.

Not saying what's right or wrong for Potranco, but I do hope they're doing objective and realistic analysis/modeling in order to be certain they won't create a nightmare. Somehow I'm not confident they'll get it right. Glad I don't live anywhere near there.
TX AG 88
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I just re-read the thread linked. In my first hurried reading, I thought the poster was lamenting that TXDOT was GOING to put a roundabout in. Now I realize the poster is advocating a roundabout instead of an overpass and that no one (aside from the OP at the link) is actually considering a roundabout. Sorry for the confusion. haste makes waste(d posts).
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Despite how awesome and cool a roundabout is AND despite how much they're utilized by other countries, you would have to be off your damn rocker to think the people of San Antonio could use one effectively. They can barely use them in a mall shopping center.

1604 with a roundabout in the middle of it? jajajajajajajajajajaja

The Fife
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1604 / Potranco is already an area where people who don't know how to drive concentrate in. Maybe in a smarter area of town it might work, but there... no way. The only upside is with all the people going around in circles it'll be nearly impossible for anyone to tag up whatever goes in the center.
Obi Wan Ginobili
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quote:
jajajajajajajajajajaja


nicely played
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