Our new roundabout decoration

[Shel]

If you read my Little Giggle thread from a couple of weeks ago,

http://www.onceuponalife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38932

you probably remember that someone has been decorating our roundabout, first with a plant, then a windmill, then the infamous potty.

I don't think anything could ever top the toilet, but they tried

How about a sleeper sofa with the bed made out


http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b8da37b3127ccea8264c55361a00000016108Fasmzlu0g

[Shanna]

:giggle: I can't wait to see whats next :popcorn:

[Mrs. Shae]

DYING here ...

Shel ... you HAVE to keep this thread going!

[Alyssa]

:giggle:

[Connie1222]

:lol: That is too funny!

[Alyson]

DYING here ...

Shel ... you HAVE to keep this thread going!

Ditto... that is great!! haha!

[Hannabanana]

That's too funny :lol:

[Mary DK]

That's hilarious :lol:

[Karri]

OMG :lol: These have to be young people, right? That's funny.

[~Deborah~]

:lol: I am waiting for an endtable and light to show up

[tuesdayswife]

:lol:

[Lyoshka]

:lol:
but i have to ask, what is a roundabout? :scratch:

[Brooke]

:lol:
but i have to ask, what is a roundabout? :scratch:

A traffic circle.

[~Deborah~]

:lol:
but i have to ask, what is a roundabout? :scratch:

Like this:

http://www.drivers.com/img/articles/334_roundabout1.jpg
http://www.camrose.com/engineer/roundabouts/graphics/roundabout.gif

[KristenF]

:giggle: I'm just laughing because you call in a roundabout instead of a traffic circle. :giggle:

[TtownAnne]

I think we need to take bets on how long before the City gets fed up with hauling the crap away, jackhammers the center out of the circle and plants dirt and flowers or something!

[~Deborah~]

You are probably right Anne :giggle:

[sunnyflower]

Isn't it a rotary?

If you need a nap when you are driving there's the place to go!

[Melissa]

:lol: Too funny!!!!

[~Deborah~]

Anything new lately?

[Connie1222]

Isn't it a rotary?

That's what we call it too.

[MrsPeacefrog]

We call them Roundabouts here.

[Hannabanana]

I call them roundabouts too ... it's a British term isn't it?

[magoo]

Roundabouts here too. Our city is putting them everywhere!

[LISA]

I call it a traffic circle but since they have just started installing them around here they are called roundabouts :)

[MrsPeacefrog]

We have had them everywhere for about 20 years now, they really peaked in construction about 15 years ago, that, speed humps and those Z deviations :rolleyes:. It's rare to find a thorough way with out something preventing you from driving straight! :lol:

[Michal]

We call them roundabouts here too.

[Karri]

Traffice circle? Rotary? Never heard of those terms before - we call them roundabouts. So I looked on wikipedia and found this:
In roundabouts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout), as opposed to traffic circles, entering traffic must yield to traffic already in the circulatory roadway.
and
In the United States it is technically called a modern roundabout, to emphasize the distinction from the older, larger type of traffic circle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_circle). Overall, roundabouts are statistically safer than both traffic circles and traditional intersections
and
Roundabouts are sometimes referred to as "traffic circles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_circle)" or "rotaries", but a technical distinction was made in some jurisdictions between roundabouts and traffic circles in the mid-1960s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s). Starting in that decade, research in the United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom) found that circular intersections with certain geometric characteristics and traffic control schemes tended to be safer than those without them. The key differences are:
And if you click here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout) there is a chart to differentiate between the 2.

In the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), circular intersections that meet the design standards shown in the table above are termed "modern roundabouts," to distinguish them from older rotaries or traffic circles. In Massachusetts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts), rotaries are nearly always built to the standards of a British roundabout, and a "roundabout" refers to an especially small rotary with crosswalks, between high-traffic roads.

And that's the lesson of the day :lol: I never knew.

[sunnyflower]

Thanks for that lesson! Rotaries are always fun to drive around/through/over etc!