On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 at 12:15:04, Richard M Willis
wrote:

Then, of course, there are French roundabouts, where joining traffic
seems to have priority.

Nonsense, all the signs, as you approach the roundabouts, firmly tell
you that you don't have priority! "Vous n'avez pas la priorité", they
exclaim, very loudly....

The thing about French roundabouts is that they never put the signposts
until you have just roared past the exit you needed, so you always end
up having to go round twice!

As for traffic lights on roundabouts here, they are so that traffic on
minor roads does get a chance, at peak periods, to get through. And
often, if lots of traffic turns left, they have slip-roads round to the
left so that you don't have to negotiate the roundabout.
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Annabel Smyth
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