Indiana city uses roundabouts to make roads safer while helping the environment

CBS News' Kris Van Cleave visits Carmel, Indiana, which is turning all its intersections into roundabouts. Officials say it's making roads safer while cutting down on gas costs and helping the environment.
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[@lindaweigel8572]

My son lives in Carmel and I have to say, the roundabouts are brilliant! I love them and really wish we had them where we live up north in the state.

[@bradfordjhart]

I wish we had more in the Northeast, the one downside I would say would be bikers, statistically these intersections are more dangerous for them, not that they follow the rules of a regular intersection anyway 😂

[@edwardmiessner6502]

@@bradfordjhart solution to that would be a double-width or triple-width shared sidewalk so cyclists don't have to enter the rotary, they can go roundabout outside it. This has been implemented in the Netherlands and it works like a charm

[@nicolasblume1046]

@@edwardmiessner6502 in the Netherlands there are no shared sidewalks. There are separate bike paths (with priority) all the way around the roundabout. The sidewalks are next to them, but clearly separated

[@r.d.9399]

It's awesome. They just need more bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure on all roadways.

[@dvferyance]

If you love them so much then you can move there.

[@bradfordjhart]

Wow reading the comments I was expecting people to hate these things, but it seems most people understand the benefits, if the centers of the roundabouts can be used for rainwater storage that would be a double benefit.

[@degnaw]

I don't think they use the centers for stormwater because you'd have to make it lower than the road -- it's less visible and drivers might fall into it. Typically the center is the tallest part to be more visible.

[@bradfordjhart]

@@degnaw tall planets and signs could do that

[@r.d.9399]

All cities in the U.S. need to be like this with bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure everywhere.

[@WelshBathBoy]

The fact in a 3min video it took him the last 5 seconds who explain the simple rules of a roundabout just shows how easy they are to use.

[@jmr9735]

And yet, you would be amazed at the number of people who don't know how to work them. These aren't new, btw. People on here are commenting like Carmel just came up with something so amazing and groundbreaking.

[@VesperAegis]

These things are also just pleasant to drive on, much more enjoyable to move along and free flowing than a traffic light.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

And they're much safer than the typical dangerous traffic light intersection of two major roads lined with strip-malls!

[@peterbelanger4094]

They are a pain in the A..

[@yonatanschlussel]

@@peterbelanger4094 give me one reason lmao

[@woohoofromtexasharris4814]

Take a ride in a semi thru that town. You will sit at that yield signs because no one will let you go. And you can't say I'm wrong, you see a semi and the first thing that goes thru your mind is you don't want to be behind that truck. Without a traffic light, semis have to pull out into traffic just to go and hope they don't get hit. Go find a round about that has major traffic and sit and watch for a couple hours, you will see what I'm talking about. You can't prove me wrong. 🙄🥺😳🤪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🚛

[@yonatanschlussel]

@@woohoofromtexasharris4814 lol, I've seen semis enter roundabouts plenty of times. And what you just wrote is not how roundabouts work. No one will ever give you way if you're entering the roundabout. You wait until an opening and then enter. Anyone entering has to yeild, that's how that works. So you're wrong

[@margaretmcgee361]

Here in the U.K. it seems we have had roundabouts forever. Surprised it has taken so long for the world to find them. Best thing ever to keep traffic flowing.

[@magnushmann]

"The world" mostly meaning the US

[@soupdrinker]

A lot of the world already has a lot too

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

there are tons of roundabouts outside the UK for a long time already. Point is: while they totally make sense in some places, they aren't quite helpful in others; There's a point where a roundabout wouldn't be able to handle a certain amount of traffic. At our airport I think 3 new roundabouts were added to a street which used to be a straight line with a few intersections; Traffic load isn't the issue there, but it's really annoying in my profession to drive there

[@JakeRoot]

These news reports are baffling. we have over 10,000 roundabouts in the US.

[@racecardriverrr4201]

@@JakeRoot The USA is almost 40x bigger than the UK but has 2.5x LESS roundabouts than the Uk

[@emanuelandrewsiii4160]

This is great. Being from Louisiana, these would be great during blackouts due to storms. Sometimes it is so much more dangerous getting around because folks don't understand 4-way stops while others are just impatient.

[@r.d.9399]

They're cheaper to maintain as well. Most people don't realize a single traffic light costs hundreds of thousands of dollars.

[@NapiRockAndRoll]

4 way stop is a sin. :D

[@ethanlord7213]

Where I live in the UK, we have roundabouts every couple of hundred metres. We also have a roundabout composed of five separate roundabouts.

[@kodongo87]

Tell me you're from Swindon without telling me you're from Swindon.

[@ethanlord7213]

@@kodongo87 😂

[@bearworldwide101]

The magic roundabout I heard about that because of Top Gear I wanna say that was James May narrating or Jezza but I did some random research for my education about these roundabouts and it's 5 roundabouts in one large roundabout going in both directions..

[@NapiRockAndRoll]

and that roundabout, next to the Heathrow is crazy! Must be banned.

[@2ATristan]

I've been living in the Carmel area since 2009 and even though I didn't have my license until 2013-2014, I can say for certain that accidents are down and gas is saved. If you are in an accident in a roundabout it's typically a side swipe or a low speed fender bender / t-bone. Say, 10-15 mph. Also, as an EMT, I love them. No One really gets hurt. A little jarred and dazed? Sure. But very rarely do you see any broken bones or significant concussions.

[@paxundpeace9970]

They are awesome they had build the first in the mid 1990s and had about 60 in the early 2010s now its over 150 roundabouts better traffic flow. Reducing travel lane on mahor roads and having build a massiv cycling and pleasure drive.

[@Esl1999]

I like how they don’t point out this is common in Europe, like this is a cool revelation they’ve worked out.

[@japes7]

I think cause it's a story that maybe aired locally. Not too sure. But wasn't all encompassing.

[@hockeymaskbob2942]

Nice try europenis, but roundabouts we're actually invented in America, that's why they're so awesome, and we have the bestest and the biggest ones in the history of ever!!! 😎🇺🇸

[@alexismiller288]

@@japes7 No it's not. This is national CBS.

[@Allaiya.]

Why would they? It is an American news station & it's only being implemented in one US city mainly.

[@VieleGuteFahrer]

Not everything is about Europe.

[@Skzzlemister]

Good on this Mayor and traffic engineer! These guys get it. Roundabouts need to be used so much more in America

[@isisjohnson4241]

I work in Carmel and live 11 mins away . I only I have to experience one light and that’s outside my neighborhood which is on the border of Carmel ! LOVE IT !!

[@caydcrow5161]

Life long Carmel resident! I absolutely love the roundabouts and the other cities in the county are starting to follow suite. Truly wonderful what they can do for a city!

[@kennymccannYT]

Good move by this town.

[@superwonderfullness]

I hope this trend catches on! For those that don't know, the Mayor of Carmel, has done an amazing job of making Carmel one of the most livable, and walkable suburbs in the country. More cities should take a closer look at what they are doing here.

[@Mr-DNA_]

Glad to see the US is finally catching up on proper road design.

[@SkylarsTerribleMemes]

really cool how the roundabouts also allow for more bike lanes! should be way more common

[@richardbeigel1913]

In Bristol, England, they have a hybrid. Roundabouts, but controlled by traffic lights at high volume times.

[@LaMaiStyle]

Also, cars have to yield to cars already in the circle

[@jakieboiZ94]

Yes that's how roundabouts work.

[@blabla-rg7ky]

@@jakieboiZ94 :)

[@edwardmiessner6502]

It used to be the opposite in New Jersey. Good recipe for gridlock!

[@EpicThe112]

The reason why traffic circles are better than a stop light intersection like intersection you actually reduce the points of conflict. There's one more thing that American engineers can take from the British and European engineers a mini traffic circle

[@dex6316]

Traffic circles are terrible. They invert road rules that roundabouts use causing many issues. See New Jersey. Roundabouts is what you want to use, at least this side of the Atlantic.

[@hockeymaskbob2942]

Idk man kinda sounds like communism to me

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

Traffic circles are quite different from roundabouts mate. The one has traffic lights and many lanes, the other not

[@markbollinger1343]

@@Spido68_the_spectator they are literally the same thing just different terms

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

@@markbollinger1343 not at all. Traffic circles have traffic lights. Roundabouts use give way signs

[@redscorpion9411]

Some of these roundabouts are shaped like a peanut, like the one in Kelley Square in Worcester MA! These types of roundabouts replace some of the world’s most dangerous and chaotic intersections. And they look so futuristic, they make the traditional circle roundabout look ancient!

[@manankaushik4966]

2:21 Just name the roundabouts "Freedom Circles" and everyone would be open to this idea. 😅

[@maddiekits]

Roundabouts are good but they also need better crossings for bikes and walkers, as they it can easily be less safe form them without it.

[@schmitty8225]

They have elevated crossings, road signs, markings on roads, and islands between opposing lanes of traffic. Just about the only thing they could do better would be enforcement of making sure yielding is going on with aggressive ticketing, fines, points and loss of license.

[@maddiekits]

@@schmitty8225 Most of the ones they show in the video are the best examples from that town, a lot of them are lacking, I do agree that a few of the ones shown have only small issues.

[@schmitty8225]

@@maddiekits look around with gsv. 90% of them are good. The few that aren't look like they are original ones or brand new ones which are still being finished. Last time Google drove around was 2019 so could be better by now.

[@Wisdom13568]

Dutch roundabouts The best in the world

[@aimxdy8680]

@@maddiekitsI live here, lots of them have walker and bike crossings, in fact we have a pretty big and separate trail for bikers aka Monon Trail lol.

[@Drearysidewalk]

Bike and multi use paths would be even better so that less people need to drive in the first place

[@Allaiya.]

Did you watch the video? These allow the use of less road & more biking/walking trails to be put in alongside the road. Carmel is one of the best suburbs for biking.

[@WalkerOne]

They have both.

[@mastersage5470]

I travel between a bunch of cities in Indiana for work and Carmel immediately came to mind lol they are definitely very pleasant to drive around

[@gabrielschroll3824]

Roundabout are NOT also known as Rotaries. They are not the same thing. Carmel does not have rotaries.

[@Matija.Blagojević]

Yeah, there are many roundabouts in Europe including my country but only in UK you have rotaries

[@LimitedWard]

Roundabouts are great for improving level of service (i.e. traffic throughput) as well as safety for drivers, but they are terrible for anyone outside of a car. Crossing a roundabout on foot or bike is more challenging since there's no dedicated light cycle for them and drivers tend to be focused on not getting hit by other cars, not anticipating pedestrians. It's important not to treat roundabouts as a one-size-fits-all solution. Traffic planners need to decide: is this road meant to move cars quickly or is it meant to connect to destinations? The latter is less suitable for roundabouts. And to be clear, there are solutions to this problem, but they tend to be expensive. In the Netherlands, what they'll sometimes do is build dedicated cycle tracks adjacent to the road that cuts underneath the roundabout to avoid any conflict points with cars. This is by far the safest way to implement it, but it obviously increases costs substantially. I really wish traffic planners in the US took more consideration into pedestrian and cyclist needs rather than focusing all their efforts on LoS.

[@JasonLatouche]

Roundabouts are easier to understand and safer than unprotected left turns and 4way stops intersection...

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

0:07 WRONG. The surname " rotary " is for TRAFFIC CIRCLES (road circles with many lanes and traffic lights)

[@Xerdoz]

One of the reasons why roundabouts got a bad rep in the US was the early traffic circles which had traffic lights. They just absolutely suck. Most famous one is probably the Columbus Circle in New York. Traffic circles are not roundabouts.

[@ogginator]

interesting, we have very many roundabouts here in Sweden and they work mutch better then normal traffic lights! I have always woundered why it haven't been that succesful in USA. Thank you for making this clear for me :)

[@bonniegaither3994]

And of course people lose their freaking minds when one of these is suggested because change is hard. 🙄

[@616CC]

With the amount of traffic lights in America I’m surprised it’s taken them this long to realise how much faster they could make traffic

[@kpdvw]

Traffic circles have been successfully used in Europe for over 70 years...! Also they work during power outages, no stupid red lights...!

[@plumeria66]

Roundabouts are not rocket science, for those who hate them. You keep going around till you find your exit, and you can do a U turn too. I love it. They’re fun to drive on!

[@Glegh]

This was either a really slow news day or the usa really thought putting a road in a circle was revolutionary and had to be broadcast on the news

[@revinhatol]

I've seen LOTS of those back in the Philippines, they're called "rotundas".

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

Who in their right mind would place spots to park inside a roundabout? At 1:55 in the video

[@clintonwoodward]

CBS stock footage, that specific shot isn't in Carmel

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@clintonwoodward ah I see, thank you; With so many roundabouts in the city I kind of expected they'd record all the scenes right there, without taking stock footage; Still odd to see parking spaces in the roundabout.

[@clintonwoodward]

@@EnjoyFirefighting yes most of the video was from Carmel but they (poorly) fillled in with stock footage when they were talking general concepts. The scene you mentioned and the one just before it were non Carmel stock footage. Pretty much everything else in the video is local.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

@@clintonwoodward It could be Gettysburg. That town has a central square where the buildings are placed like that.

[@eberhardh]

indeed that's not ideal, however shouldn't be a problem as speeds inside the circle is low as 15 mph. Of course the one reversing from parking should not take too long ...

[@donniefleuryy.29]

these things are so simple but people just overthink it.

[@Random.ChanneI]

0:58 wow!! Those bike paths look almost identical to the ones here in the Netherlands!

[@r.d.9399]

It's amazing. The U.S. needs more of this.

[@Allaiya.]

I live between Carmel & Indy so I drive them everyday. Rounabouts are so much better than traffic lights and stop signs. The flow of traffic is much improved. I hate dealing with the stop & go of traffic now when I have to commute somewhere else. I always go north to Carmel because it takes 6-7 minutes vs going south to Indy with all the traffic lights where it takes probably 15 minutes even though it is closer. Just have to get used to it & know the rules. I have been saying as such for years since they first started putting them in like 10 years ago. But some people hate change.

[@camanderson5304]

Only time I saw a line of cars in this video was at the traffic light 😂

[@billykuan]

We have had them for 10 years and they are better than lights, especially the single lane roundabouts. There were two lights that would pile up cars every noon, now no delays, and people crossing have short distances to cross. If you need to turn around now, you can just go in a circle and be headed back. I have been in London and they have roundabouts with many lanes and you must make lane changes while circling and I did not like that.

[@codycasserly8304]

Roundabout are more common in Europe because they have less rigid 4 way stops. Intersections are more irregular and often have multiple streets meeting. The roundabout drives people to yield, but keeps traffic moving. They almost always trump traffic lights, even stop signs.

[@MrAronymous]

*especially stop signs. Stop signs are notoriously inefficient and idiotic lol. Really something out of the 1930s that somehow the US stuck to and still thinks is acceptable.

[@jeretso]

Stop lights take too long

[@hockeymaskbob2942]

Um were they driving their car down the bike lane?

[@googlereviews7700]

I live in Carmel and I love the roundabouts.

[@kenbob1071]

So awesome! Great for the environment; great for drivers; reduces accidents, gas consumption and the need for extra lanes; no fancy traffic controls necessary, etc., etc. Love it!!

[@bstephan5224]

America needs public transportation. America has the worst public transportation in the world. Enough of roads and bridges and concrete we need high speed trends. We need to free our cities from stupid cars.

[@janebeatty9472]

Will you be paying for it? California tried it and ran out of money.

[@maxmulsanne7054]

What public transportation is it that you propose? There's already bus systems and inter-city railway systems. And even car pool lanes were established decades ago. I hope you are not suggesting a HSR (High-Speed Railway) in the US. It's not practical for a multiple of reasons. Everything from too vast of land to cover (& at what ex$pen$e), to corruption, to dangerous engineering and to the presentation of a catastrophic event should a terrorist get any "brilliant" ideas of disrupting the sensitive & vulnerable line in a highly populated area. California is a good example of that bad idea. But then again, California is a good example of a lot of bad ideas...

[@rodniegsm1575]

@@janebeatty9472 that's becouse they don't plan things right.and there are more company's involved who are just looking for a payday. And making the project more expensive then it should be.

[@rodniegsm1575]

@@maxmulsanne7054 in holland where I live there was never a terrorist attack on a train or the railways. Even tho people were scared of it. Just becouse your afraid of something doesn't make it a bad idea. A good and efficient railway system can move a lot of people in a short amount of time. Plus it reduces car dependency but also all the ridiculous large parking lots in American city's. When your in a train you don't have to stress in traffic. Or deal whit people whit roadrage. Or thing like that.

[@llucmou]

@@janebeatty9472 california ran out of money trying to tax its elites and making them flee the state with their companies. This has nothing to do with public transportation, which in fact is way less expensive than keeping 10+ lane highways and can be done with simple and cheap measures such as designated bus lanes for a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) system.

[@NordiskSeger]

I'm so glad to see that more of them are built in the States, although there is a long way to go in most States. During my last trip to Long Island (NY), all the stop-light intersections wasted so much of my time that it drove me crazy.

[@awkwardsanchez6231]

We are doing almost the same thing in SW Michigan plus a lot of road diets.

[@connomar55]

As a Brit living in the USA, I was surprised, when I had to take the driving test, that signaling on Roundabouts has yet to be made part of the code. Also, I have yet to encounter a roundabout that has more than one lane. In Minnesota, the gains made from having a roundabout are partially lost by having to wait to be sure what someone on the roundabout is going to do. A lesson that the USA needs to learn quickly is that large roundabouts are a bad idea.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Large roundabouts work in Massachusetts

[@janebeatty9472]

Hmmm…most of the round a bouts in Carmel and the Indianapolis suburbs are all 2-3 lanes.

[@alexismiller288]

We have oversized cars with bad turn radii, unfortunately, so some of our cities do need bigger roundabouts.

[@Allaiya.]

Carmel actually tried to implement that, but people complained. So they canned it. And to be honest, I don't mind it because by the time you put the signal on you're usually out of it. Almost all the roundabouts I use are 2 lanes.

[@johnp139]

So if someone in the roundabout is signaling to leave the roundabout and rather continues in the roundabout and hits a person entering, who is at fault?

[@Matija.Blagojević]

Every city in USA should make it

[@My_name-is_Skylar_White_yo]

yay, finally someone who doesn't "just add another lane"

[@LostieTrekieTechie]

We still can't talk about mass transit investment, but we're finally catching up to European drivers.

[@alexismiller288]

Indeed. If this town were in the Netherlands it'd most certainly have several tram lines and an intercity rail station.

[@janebeatty9472]

Definitely saves time and gas at what use to be four way stops and lights. The rush hour backup was nuts. I’m glad all the surrounding Indianapolis suburbs did this. Carmel’s roundabouts have a nickname…”The circles of death”. At rush hour, its hairy.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

I assume they have frequent T-bones at the two lane roundabouts because some idiot didn't pay attention entering the rotary?

[@janebeatty9472]

@@edwardmiessner6502 Have never seen an accident at one. These aren’t small and they are well marked.

[@Spido68_the_spectator]

@@edwardmiessner6502 T bone have barely any chance of happening on roundabouts. On rataries (traffic circles, those things with lights and many lanes that are annoying to go through, like those on the Paris ring interchanges...) well... it's probably possible

[@Maxime_K-G]

Some people don't like roundabouts because they require you to perceive risk and pay attention. But that's part of the reason why they're so effective at reducing crashes.

[@paulbrower4265]

I saw a roundabout between two rural roads, neither on the state's numbered highway system, near Colon, Michigan. It was surprising to see one, but there must have been a large number of accidents for the comparatively small traffic using what had been a dangerous intersection.

[@jckozzie2010]

If people in other states and cities can't stay in their lane on a straight highway, there's no way they'll be able to handle a roundabout with other cars beside them! 🤣🤣🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@em0_tion]

Indeed, urban planning works! 👏👍

[@amardave84]

Excellent! We need more traffic circles! Eliminate stop start traffic.

[@BlimpCityFeeder]

Carmel, IN must be blessed to have traffic engineers prioritize to keep traffic moving vs adding more congestion for pricing to take place, like in NYC.

[@spacetoast7783]

Congestion pricing makes people pay for creating congestion. NYC is not proposing to pay people to drive.

[@BlimpCityFeeder]

@@spacetoast7783 NYC engineers designed to make everyone stop/slow down to prevent or lessen accidents which hasn't happened, but with additional congestion as a result made it easy pickings for the $ plan to go through.

[@spacetoast7783]

@@BlimpCityFeeder Yep, its very effective and other cities should copy it.

[@daverosewell9991]

Nope, our city engineer isn't even qualified.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Massachusetts where I grew up we had an earlier iteration of the roundabout called a rotary. Initially it was a free-for-all meaning there were lots of fender-benders, then in the mid 1970s Yield signs were posted at each entry and the rotaries functioned much safer and smoother.

[@dividebyzero1000]

I grew up there as well. My favorite was the old drum hill rotary that got removed. It was hilarious watching people backup in it because they missed their turn. Not sure how many rotaries are left there anymore. For a while the state was pretty set on removing them all.

[@davidroddini1512]

My grandmother LOVED rotaries! We had to fight tooth and nail to get her to switch to the “new fangled phone with all those buttons”. Oops wrong rotary

[@edwardmiessner6502]

@@dividebyzero1000 My favorite was the Hingham Rotary. Nice and tight and two lanes of traffic on Route 3A dump onto it going east. AFAIK it's still there. I've also been to the Drum Hill one and saw what they did to it; it now looks like any intersection of an interstate and a major stroad.

[@spacetoast7783]

All they really need is some paint, which the state seems to have added to quite a few rotaries recently.

[@anotherelvis]

The double roundabout over the bridge is pretty cool.

[@touchdown62]

The roundabouts are fine until you get around Keystone Pkwy, where there can be 3 of them in a row. Feels like you're on a roller coaster.

[@beccaj]

The mayor did say he wants Carmel to be the roundabout capital on the US 😆

[@Drskopf]

Roundabouts helps to solve to things, traffic flow specially in a power outage and power consumption from street lights. In my country Nicaragua they have been using them for the past 22 yrs as a substitute of street light on heavy traffic intersections, but also the public needed to be educated. when they were first built because the roundabout in Managua Nicaragua have a hughe diameter with up to 3 lanes inside the thing, so no stopping nor yielding while inside of it and stick to your lane too...

[@DerekMcDouglas]

We have a few of them like this here in Mobile.

[@murraymadness4674]

But how will they generate any revenue without stop lights and traffic fine cameras? Can't have it actually safer if they are losing money on fines! Roundabouts are great until they get too busy, then they are nightmares.

[@RichardFStripeRendezvous]

As an American, this video is embarrassing. Roundabouts and their benefits are common sense to the rest of the world, but Americans have to have it marketed to us as some new revolutionary concept.

[@eberhardh]

which it is to Americans

[@MePeterNicholls]

Welcome to catching up with the rest of the world guys ;)

[@andrewfusco7824]

Please use your turn signal when entering and exiting a roundabout. Thanks!

[@mrhmm3198]

No

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

do they do it like that in the US? In some countries they use turn signal to indicate the final driving direction when entering the roundabout and use the right turn signal when leaving, while in other countries you may not use the turn signal in the roundabout until you leave it

[@janebeatty9472]

Not in the US.

[@johnp139]

Why when entering? Isn’t that OBVIOUS since they are at the ENTRANCE?

[@TransitAndTeslas]

They’re all over Europe for a reason. They’re efficient.

[@Michael-ku4ot]

Brilliant 👏🏾

[@agn728]

The problem is half the round abouts in my state aren't big enough. They take an existing intersection, throw a concrete dome/bump in the middle and that just isn't a real round about imo. It's a Yield Bump 😂

[@Maybe1Someday]

What is the most efficient size roundabout diameter for two lane road given median and lane widths? Not making it so small that its just an intersection but not too big that you roast your tires.

[@PeaLoop]

I wish we had more of these in Los Angeles.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

You guys have too much traffic and not enough room for roundabouts. You'll have to live with traffic lights. Sorry!

[@richflash1360]

@@edwardmiessner6502 if LA can figure out, anywhere can do it.

[@NikkyElso]

There is nothing more wasteful of my time and money, than sitting at an intersection waiting for a light to turn green and praying the intersecting traffic is paying attention. They aren't a difficult concept, there is no "learning curve" If you're too dumb for roundabouts, you're too dumb to be driving.

[@meradceu]

Roundabout lanes dont have to be narrow. You can have 2 lanes approaching a roundabout and it works completely fine And is safe. Allows for 2 different directional movements reducing vehicle build up

[@mjfreespirit]

England has known this for years

[@k_josef1989]

I hope we have more of these in the Philippines!

[@evboto.5597]

Also, don’t forget to use your turn signals in the roundabout! Signal in the direction you are turning, right until you are about to exit the roundabout, in which you use your right turn signal.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

is it like that in the US? I know it's done like that in Sweden and Norway, but not in Germany

[@janebeatty9472]

We don’t signal in the US.

[@evboto.5597]

@@EnjoyFirefighting it’s technically the law to do so, but rarely does anyone actually signal

[@spacetoast7783]

Wtf? You shouldn't signal if you're not turning.

[@justagirlsd3000]

I like them. They have them in Tijuana and they work quite well with tons of lanes and traffic.

[@lemonskateboarding2337]

omg is the USA finally realising roundabouts are better after al these years

[@rodrigosouto9502]

Roundabouts are the furure!

[@garryferrington811]

Well, this seems like a good idea! Good going, Carmel!

[@williamerazo3921]

Roundabouts are good

[@a.yashwanth]

People hate roundabouts because they can't blow through red light and should slow down.

[@tracitaylor1619]

I live in Central Indiana and I hate roundabouts!!!! They are dangerous because people still don't know how to use them safely and are dangerous too.

[@eberhardh]

Not roundabouts are dangerous, stupid drivers are. Anyone with even an average level of ability should be able to understand how a traffic circle works and learn the rules: i) go slow, ii) yield to traffic in the roundabout, it has has the right of way, iii) signal when exiting. And: YIELD does not mean stop, but slow down and drive through if no one is coming from the left. Paying attention to the signage helps a lot as well. Anyone who doesn't get this right should seriously consider whether he or she is right at the wheel of a vehicle

[@niceguytim]

Round snouts are only good with a certain level of traffic. New Jersey they had to get rid of all the circles because it got to dense. The round avoid became way to crowded to be useful.

[@williamfield8967]

🚦The automatic traffic light was invented in Carmel. When finished converting all intersection into roundabouts, they will leave one traffic light...in the location of that very first one. 🚦

[@daverosewell9991]

What absolute garbage

[@darz3829]

When roundabouts have two lanes there are many points at which drivers who haven't planned ahead will panic and cross in front of others. Or, inconsiderate drivers just plain won't yield right of way. Both those situations are designed into the roads. My questions is - if the cities and/or states endorse these and cars get into a wreck, can the drivers sue those responsible for the roads (because they were aware of the potential problems)?

[@totalignition1259]

Probably not - these are issues with drivers, not the junction. As the video says, roundabouts significantly reduce the number of crashes, so I can't see someone being able to sue the road designers because someone couldn't be bothered to obey a yield sign.

[@darz3829]

@@totalignition1259 I got news for you -- drivers sue for EVERYTHING. The road can be clear without traffic and they'll sue the city/county/state. As long as lawyers can take home one third of any settlement there will be lawsuits galore.

[@csmlouis]

Most importantly, it prevents sideshow takeovers.

[@JoePCool14]

You mean street takeovers? Not gonna lie, they could probably still do them in roundabouts, if they're big enough. But I'm guessing Carmel doesn't have to worry about them since they aren't LA.

[@neitan6891]

Yes, urbanism!

[@lifeinbronylandishard]

As a bloomingtonian we have many roundabouts too!

[@terrier484]

good old Americans, what a revolutionary idea they've had, where as Europe has had them forever

[@jeniferdiamond7723]

Yea well tooo many drivers here don't know how to use them, they stop anyway when no one is coming, they will sometime drive around them several times not knowing how to pull out of them to the next street.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

how stupid can one be not to know how to exit it? It's like going straight while the road makes a turn because they didn't know how to turn the steering wheel

[@eberhardh]

Anyone with even an average level of ability should be able to understand how a traffic circle (or roundabout or whatever) works and learn the rules: i) go slow, ii) yield to traffic in the roundabout, it has has the right of way, iii) signal when exiting. And: YIELD does not mean stop, but slow down and drive through if no one is coming from the left. Paying attention to the signage helps a lot as well. Anyone who doesn't get this right should seriously consider whether he or she is right at the wheel of a vehicle

[@chrisl8355]

Traffic circles wouldn't work in Los Angeles.

[@eberhardh]

surely not with 8 lanes

[@johnp139]

Why aren’t they used in more places? Because they take up a lot more space. This should have at least have been mentioned.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

not necessarily; You can design them to fit into the same space ...

[@juanmarinez6162]

What about larger vehicles longer vehicles

[@RaymondHng]

There's a semi-trailer truck at 1:54 going through a roundabout.

[@44jimcordell31]

I drive an18 wheel semi tractor trailer and I've never had any trouble going through a round about.

[@janebeatty9472]

Kokomo built one that could accommodate their long firetruck. That was while back when they were first being used. They had to widen and reduce the center radius.

[@markmilitant]

Every Pennsylvania major city Philly Easton Scranton Allentown Reading Harrisburg have round abouts with statues in the middle

[@andya6461]

We been doing this in the UK since we started having cars.

[@LaMaiStyle]

Racers love a long boulevard of roundabouts. Instant racetrack. I live near 12 roundabouts and every night you can hear them racing. It’s actually a lot of fun in a sports car

[@maxmulsanne7054]

And that is the exact thing we _Don't Need_ on public roads located in neighborhoods. That sort of "activity" belongs in industrial areas, if not out in the bleeding country somewhere...

[@JoePCool14]

That's why we need good cops patrolling and shutting this stuff down. Impound cars if they have to.

[@yuriydee]

@@maxmulsanne7054 Well worst comes to worst.....racing thru a roundabout is technically safer than blowing thru a bunch of red lights.