On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Forcing the traffic on the main road to slow down is the way the roundabout prevents queues of traffic joining main roads. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
