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If you are afraid of the rotary, DON’T DRIVE THROUGH THE ROTARY.
Besides being very dangerous, it also holds everyone up. Please just take another route because you are going to cause an accident. —Frustrated Commuter
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.
8 Comments
Concur. Drive within your abilities.
I also think that there are way too many signalled intersections in and around this city and very few are timed correctly, causing unnecessary tie-ups during rush hours. We need to take a page from England’s traffic planners and use roundabouts more often as a alternative to traffic lights. They’re easy, safe and cause minimal delays.
That being said, knowing THIS city, they’d find a way to fuck up a circle!
don’t you mean the roundabout? there is one fucked up circle of fools. i hate going there, because no one really knows what the fuck to do. most times they sit there too fucking long, and fuck up the flow. i just wish it would have been left the hell alone. it worked okay the way it was.
I used to be intimidated… but only because of how much everyone complained how fucked it is. Really, it’s not that bad… especially if you avoid rush-hour.
It’s a piece of cake on weekends.
Hey Blow Me, ya dumb fuck…they changed it for a reason. It was the only rotary (now called a “traffic circle”, not a roundabout) in the world with that stupid-ass one for one rule. If you can’t figure out the one simple rule, “vehicles in the circle have the RIGHT OF WAY”, you have no business behind the wheel.
You also better study up on the rules and practice, they are popping up everywhere. All over PEI, Windsor, and there’s three of them on Larry Uteck.
WHat da fucks a larry u teck ?
I don’t why people are intimidated. You just have to pay attention to the flow of traffic. Oh, that’s probably why!
Larry Uteck is a street that runs from the Bedford Hwy to the Bi-Hi. Named for councillor Sue Uteck’s husband.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Uteck
I agree with you sort of.. I HATE the rotary. But do you know how far i have to go out of my way to get around it??? If there is a fast route i’d like to hear it.
Plus, how the hell does ANYONE learn how to use the rotary if they don’t do it over and over until the timidness subsides?
Not all of us are gonna feel safe charging into that motherfucker like Seabiscuit. I’d like to get to the point where i take that thing like the dude in Drive. I’m just not there. Yet.