oldslabsides wrote: 
only at the Berlin Circle

 Skaterella wrote: 
there's commies in joysey?

 Coaxial wrote:  the cold wasn't bad-the communists were rough...

 Skaterella wrote: 
You poor thing...It must have been so cold in Winter.

 kurtster wrote: 

are you talking about the circle in Berlin NJ??  I grew up right there.

 Dave_Mack wrote: 
Where are ya, Dave? We miss you around here...

roundabouts are working out pretty well here

yield & merge gents

I worked as night supervisor for the fledling Riyadh public transit system 79-81.  One night I got a call and had to go to the scene of an accident at a circle.  A sewage truck had overturned while trying to navigate a circle and one of our buses had slid in the "spill" hitting a lamp post.  Took pictures, called a tow and left ASAP.  Phew.

Also when I was there they would have a "safety week" every 6 months.  They "celebrated" by decorating all the circles by cars totaled in accidents on the side walks of the circles.  First time I saw it I thought "WTF is going on all these people in accidents"

 oldslabsides wrote: 


I do remember now that I used to see cops walk over to the boxes and smack them as hard as they could with their nightsticks when they got stuck and quit cycling.

A great stress reliever.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
I don't know I'm too busy watching the traffic.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
and are there giant metal boxes at these new light-controlled intersections?

 meower wrote: 
both have co-existed for years.
personally, I like jughandles but can live without the circles.
but a lot of the new intersections are being replaced with a circle/cloverleaf hybrid. which is just a uppity jughandle.

 kurtster wrote: 

i think the jrzy jug handles were the replacement for the circles.

 kurtster wrote: 
I remember when we visited Jersey, and how fascinated I was with the jug handles.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
I well remember the circle in Berlin, as well as the fire that burned down the courthouse and the records of some of my driving indescretions as a youth in a hurry to get to the shore.

And let's not forget the beloved jersey jug handles, which actually made some sense to me at first thought, until you had to remember to use them when you needed to turn left. 

 JrzyTmata wrote: 

i have a very strong memory of being scared Sh*tless in the car with my mom at a circle near our house.... she was in the middle of it, stopped, waiting for traffic people whizzing by her.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
jersey is (was) filled with traffic circles. they worked great until modern traffic go too heavy, they jam up. most are being replaced with lights and intersections.

 kurtster wrote: 
 ...as long as you're not in the circle.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Go visit an area with a high % of tourists such as Hilton Head and watch people who have never seen a traffic circle before.

Entertainment on levels that cannot be imagined or described.

 kurtster wrote: 

wow.  that's pretty stupid.  down here they're yield signs.  the difficulty is that people have never seen this sort of thing before and it apparently boggles their narrow minds and quite a few of them DO stop.  they also fail to use turn signals, but that's nothing new.