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Another Traffic Island Destroyed

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  • Started 4 months ago by Sunset Hill David
  • Latest reply from Norge
  1. teigyr

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    Apparently in this state you don't have to know how to drive around it and you aren't required to go the right way around. And PG, I will lay odds that people hit the center divider on freeways and sue sometimes regardless of how their driving played into it all. Personal responsibility can be lacking.

    Strangely enough, not all traffic circles are allowed to have plants. It depends on access to the sewer system (I think?). Ours is just a cement circle with a sign that keeps getting plowed over so no boulders for me. (FWIW, I'd also like to put traffic spike things for those people who seem to think they don't actually need to go around the circle if they're turning. I know I can't do it but I'd enjoy it. Same goes for having a cell phone jammer, I'd like that too. Please :))

    Posted 4 months ago #
  2. BuffaloHawk

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    Put a Honey Bucket in the traffic circle ? We all have expressed avoiding them;) hehe

    Go Hawks !!!

    Posted 4 months ago #
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    brown_eyes

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    That was good!

    Posted 4 months ago #
  4. Cate

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    I could get behind having a porta-potty dump its contents on stupid teenage drivers.

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    A friend of mine was originally responsible for the traffic circle at 87th & 9th NW. A responsible party was required for the city to put the traffic circle in. If I remember correctly there were restrictions on what could be planted -- such as trees -- that would block a driver's view. Now that he's moved from the neighborhood I don't know who is responsible but again, if I remember right, the responsibility moves back to the City. Give I work with lawyers, I always wondered about liability issues for him if someone were to sue -- say the plants got too high. Thankfully there were no incidents to test this happened while he lived there.

    I think small boulders painted with reflective paint might be a good idea. I don't like the traffic circles -- cost of around $6,000 versus stop or yield signs -- cost of $600. And speed -- Corvus I think 15 mph down 17th is plenty fast to drive around the traffic circles given how close cars park to the intersections.

    Posted 4 months ago #

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