This was an excellent article, Barry! One of the things I enjoy so much about your writing is the observation from all sides and the research behind it.
When we went the first time, we were puzzled at first to the rules of some that were bigger and some that were smaller. The countryside ones gave us a bit better chance to discern what was happening but it also helped that I was in the backseat with our daughter while my husband and our friend traversed the freeways on map as they flowed along on the roadways. Had I been driving, we would have been in a farmer's field in short time. Though they never did figure out the one at the Arc de Triomphe, by time we came home to Canada, we wholeheartedly agreed with you that traffic circles are the ticket.
This was an excellent article, Barry! One of the things I enjoy so much about your writing is the observation from all sides and the research behind it.
When we went the first time, we were puzzled at first to the rules of some that were bigger and some that were smaller. The countryside ones gave us a bit better chance to discern what was happening but it also helped that I was in the backseat with our daughter while my husband and our friend traversed the freeways on map as they flowed along on the roadways. Had I been driving, we would have been in a farmer's field in short time. Though they never did figure out the one at the Arc de Triomphe, by time we came home to Canada, we wholeheartedly agreed with you that traffic circles are the ticket.