re: Thibodaux Has a New Traffic Circle, DOTD Installs These Signs to Help Drivers

Traffic circles are far better than four way stops, at least as long as the people using them have the common sense necessary to use them.

Roundabouts should be built only on 2 lane roads thereby having only one lane completely around the roundabout. Thats the only way most drivers can navigate them.

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They have definitely helped on some of the more rural two lane roads around here.

That said I accidentally drove through Youngsville around 5pm one day and it was terrible. They basically become a 4 way stop.

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Roundabouts should be built only on 2 lane roads thereby having only one lane completely around the roundabout. Thats the only way most drivers can navigate them.

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My personal favorite is actually the right turn bypass type for four lane roads intersecting, and while the shape is a little odd because of how they had to design it, the roundabout on Lobdell in Baton Rouge is what I'm talking about: https://maps.app.goo.gl/tyGq6fz674tkug9H8

The roundabout itself has only one lane and is entered by staying in the left lane on your road. However, in approaching the roundabout, the right lane takes a protected right to avoid the roundabout entirely. Short of someone driving against the flow of traffic, which, just don't, the worst "mistake" someone can make is accidentally taking the bypass to the right when they needed to enter the roundabout, or vice versa. Both of which are super minor.

Edit: This is a picture of a similar style roundabout for people who don't want to click a link to google maps:

Some of you won't live ling enough to see these things to hunt us but it is going to happen. They told us in "Black Mirror" in netflix

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This is the design of a sign I could understand. I am a man. I read a diagram not verbal directions.

None of that 4 sign DOTD family feud setup they have now. And put it near the the police station so drivers have time to see it.

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Thats the stupidest place to put one of those circle jerk thingys. Way too many roads connect there especially with Jackson being a truck route. Horrible idea from dot and idiot mayor to agree with it.

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Roundabouts are more efficient and easier to use than 4-way+ stops. There is just no accounting for the lowest common denominator of mouth breathers who struggle to understand a normal, four-way-stop intersection. You know......the dumbass who can't figure out when it is their turn to go, gumming up the works for everyone else. Yeah, the problem is that those people are still allowed to drive.

They really are not tough to navigate.

I don’t understand why people can’t handle those things?