Circular infrastructure

[CityLife]

Traffic circles are those huge circles like the one that the Arc de Triomphe sits in in Paris.  They are high speed and absolutely terrifying!  A lot of European countries have them and put monuments in the middle.  I think they were designed when all traffic was horse drawn and slower.  Incoming traffic has the right-of-way, not the traffic in the rotary.  Just the opposite of roundabouts. 

If the Arc de Triomphe was in the south, it would get crowds that rival NASCAR races. I stood there for an hour with my jaw wide open in shock that there wasn't an accident every 15 seconds.

Pop Quiz nerds, without surfing the web...how many fewer conflict points are there in a roundabout than in a 4 way stop? This was a PE test question last year (probably the only one lay folks can get).

[tufsu1]

If the Arc de Triomphe was in the south, it would get crowds that rival NASCAR races. I stood there for an hour with my jaw wide open in shock that there wasn't an accident every 15 seconds.

and stupid jet-lagged teenager me tried to run across the thing....I didn't see the underpasses until we were in the center of the circle!.

[Dog Walker]

I came across this one in my interweb travels today.  Please explain....
http://binged.it/zvby36


If someone can post the pic, I'd appreciate it.

That thing was obviously designed at Hogworts; hence the name, The Magic Circle.  You drive into it, make a tight turn around one of the little circles and are instantly transported somewhere else....ANYWHERE else!  Flat weird!

Or maybe it's left over from WWII when the took down traffic signs and did stuff to confuse the invading Germans.

Crop circles made by aliens?

[Anti redneck]

Don't expect to see too many of these in Jacksonville. They don't want convenience for their people.