[WillPostForFood]

No easy answers, no solutions only trade-offs. Perhaps better for safety, but they makes crossing as a pedestrian longer and harder. And while intersections designed for roundabouts can be pretty smooth, retrofitting undersized roundabouts into intersections designed a 4-way makes for ugly and difficult to navigate messes.

I like them, but it is a mistake to blindly install them anywhere possible.

[ndsipa_pomu]

What's wrong with mini-roundabouts? We've got lots of them here in the UK, mainly in residential areas and I don't see the issue with replacing a 4-way stop intersection (U.S. style) with a mini-roundabout. All that's needed is to remove the STOP signs and splash a bit of white paint onto the road to mark the mini-roundabout. Optionally, build up the mini-roundabout to make it harder to drive over.

[rjmunro]

In most of the world, unless the intersection has pedestrian features (like traffic lights with green men or islands with pedestrian waiting areas), it's better to cross the road away from the intersections. Then you only have 2 directions of traffic to worry about. AFAICT, in the US, crossing away from the intersections is illegal in many cases.

When Cycling and approaching a roundabout move to the middle of the lane and follow the same routes as a car. Yes you slow the cars a bit but they are supposed to be going slowly anyway. If you don't want to do that, you can get off your bike and cross as a pedestrian would.