On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 13:43 -0400, Anthony wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Martin Vonwald <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll just want to let you know, that I reworked the article about > > mini-roundabouts and want to update it within the next days. You can > > find it here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Imagic/Werkstatt > > "If there is only a single vehicle, or two vehicles traveling in > opposite directions, it is common to drive straight across the middle > rather than going around." > > Isn't this illegal? Don't think so. The definition of a mini-roundabout is that it is traversable, and making it illegal to then traverse it would be silly.
Their primary purpose is to prevent queues of traffic joining main roads and to set up a fair system of priorities. Many are just inserted where there was previously just a T-Junction meaning that often the painted island is offset from the centre. This often makes it near impossible to not cross the painted island, one direction, in even a relatively small car. That is unless everyone is to slow down to slow manoeuvring speed. In the above situation the island is painted and flat, where there is room to go around the island is often humped to discourage cars from driving over the island. Phil _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
