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by bigstrat2003 614 days ago
> Half the time the only way you can tell it’s an all way stop is by looking for the back of the stop signs on the perpendicular road.

Your state is doing it wrong then. Almost every four way stop I've ever seen in the US has a little sign beneath the big octagon which says "4-way".

Anyways, I have nothing against roundabouts. But I do have issue with some states (looking at you, Wisconsin) which are obsessed with tearing out perfectly good stop signs (as in, it's a low volume intersection or it's only a two way stop with a highway going through) and replacing them with roundabouts. It's just a waste of taxpayer money.

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My elderly father will go 20 mins out of his way to avoid this series of intersections in Oshkosh:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5SiJhyQREhNSN8PJ9

I do love how on streetview they've caught what looks to be an accident on it: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0108294,-88.5835298,3a,75y,5...

That being said that looks like a pretty decent and standard setup for a set of roundabouts, certainly wouldn't look out of place in the UK and would be vastly superior to a whole host of stop signs and red lights. It probably could've been simplified slightly by turning the two middle ones into one long oval roundabout, those are pretty common on motorway junctions in the UK.

I was going to make the same point. With that slight modification it's an everyday thing for many U.K. drivers and fairly easy to navigate when one is used to such.

The Beaconsfield junction on the M40 is a randomly selected example of this very setup in the U.K.: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.59432/-0.62779

Or the junction of the A5 and the A442 in Telford: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/52.67883/-2.43871

Where I am near Boston, unmarked 4-way stop signs are extremely common.