Huh, definitely see people doing it!
Whenever it seems as though some progress has been made,….we are reminded again of how far we still have to go.
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Why does this seem to happen all the time here? I feel like this can’t be the only place, but might be the only place where you can watch it on tv while eating lunch.
The wife has overheard some “fun” stories lately.
At a health clinic one of the workers was complaining she just paid off two more traffic violation fines for her husband. She complained her husband cannot tolerate any cars driving in front of him so always drives very fast to pass them.
The wife was returning her amulets to a temple (cannot just throw away). Guy in front of her is getting a car lucky amulet. He told the temple guy that he bought the car last week and already had an accident so is getting the amulet.
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We need a facepalm reaction! 
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A small follow-up to my post a couple of months ago about Taiwan’s first turbo roundabout in Taichung. A couple months ago it was updated with street view for part of it so now we can get a better look at it. Admittedly I’ve been too lazy to make my way out to that area in person.
As mentioned before there are street lights at the crossing meaning you will have to wait to enter the turbo roundabout.
On this entrance to the roundabout there are turn arrows on both lanes but after passing the street light the inner lane switches to a straight arrow to actually enter to the intersection. I feel like this will end up confusing people here. Honestly probably the only reason they did this is because they used a right turn green arrow light instead of a regular green light because they are so dang terrified of drivers turning left on the dang roundabout so to make sure you can legally proceed through the light they drew a right turn arrow on the ground…
On another entrance it’s different. For redeveloped land and a brand new roundabout I think asking for something consistent across the whole design shouldn’t be difficult. So far it looks like 3 of the 4 entrances are different designs.
Vast amounts of empty space all around the roundabout and random empty lane on the inside of the traffic lane? I guess you can park inside the roundabout?
Along with the large amount of wasted space is plenty of space that should be filled with sidewalk extensions to reduce crossing distance for pedestrians. Also because of traffic lights pedestrians have to wait for the crossing light to change before they can cross.
Street light put right up to the asphalt on the exit. Has a pedestrian traffic sign that should be universally understood. Because it’s Taiwan they also have a huge sign with a bunch of writing on it to explain what the sign already explains and creating more visual noise for no reason. Probably could’ve also moved this street light back or not even have one in this spot to create an even more open view of the exit and pedestrians.
All the exits from the roundabout have a stop road marking rather than a yield. The stop line is also quite close to the pedestrian crossing. There’s is also no physical separation or barriers in the middle.
Inside is basically a park. However, there is no crossing to get there. Also…are they really asking people to cross two lanes of traffic like that 
Also nearby leading up to this intersection there are many isolated median islands. Impossible to cross from one side to the other. So to get to the other median island you have to cross the street 3 times. There’s a dedicated left turn phase. A crossing to allow people to cross to the next island would be fine, especially if they got rid of all the empty space.
Also tons of wasted space here that could be more of the median island.
Satellite view (before road markings were painted)
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Need to stop is for pedestrians?
Not sure if the stop is for pedestrian or to make the roundabout as slow as possible, but a regular yield would be simple. A stop is just dumb. Still no idea why there are even traffic lights here.
Speeding driver given 2yr. sentence for killing one person and paralyzing another. Incident happened Dec. 2023.
Article has CCTV footage of accident.
Speaking of speeding I saw this on the infamous Wowtchout channel yesterday. Pedestrian crosses on a red and the cammer who has a green light almost hits her…but look at his dashcam’s listed GPS speed. He’s going 89. I know this spot. White plates are forced into the slow outer road section which is limited to 40. So they guy was going well over double the speed limit. He then goes back to confront the lady.
The funny thing is I passed through that exact spot a couple of weeks ago too and I forgot if it’s next to this intersection or the next one but there’s a speed camera there. So this lady actually saved his plate from getting suspended.
Saw a traffic accident last week. Small road one lane each side. One car was turning right to pull into their community parking. Lady on scooter behind didn’t want to wait or slow down. She immediately just goes around, across double yellow, completely blind of any oncoming traffic…and hits a guy on a scooter that was going straight. Guy was holding his leg and he had a pretty painful look on his face.
Police were there super fast. Anyways really stupid accident because of total lack of patience. Oh no brake and slow down/stop for 2 seconds? I’ll go around completely blind of my surroundings.
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I saw a new one yesterday. A woman stopped at a red light. Let me walk across the road…
..then she got off her scooter, walked it across to the other side, hopped back on her scooter and rode off!
I’m actually surprised i’ve not seen it sooner.
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One of the office workers did something to piss off a gravel truck last week. Gravel truck driver proceeded to chase her down, tailgate her, almost ran her off the road etc.. I wasn’t in the office that day, but she obviously came in very distraught and had multiple videos with different views to prove what happened. She is the little sister of once of the main partners.
She was going to call the cops, but the bosses in the office said it no use and instead sent a few of the laborers (daytime job, nighttime jobs are very different from my understanding) directly to the gravel truck company.
Not sure what happened, but everyday since the office worker has been receiving coffees, cakes, etc., and the Laoban of the hauling company was in our office yesterday morning basically begging. A bit of Taiwan countryside justice is my guess.
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There needs so be significantly higher punishments for people like this. Absolutely insane.
Last year was a close call with a damn truck doing something similar.
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I’d call him an absolute prick if it wasn’t for the fact I could be sued, so I won’t.
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Yeah amazing restraint from the rest of the riders. Everythings on camera now.
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Police officer honks at car in front for driving in accordance with the law and stopping at a STOP road marking. Of course they don’t stop when it’s their turn. Small thing but I feel like it says a lot for something so simple and easy.
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Nice corner cut too at the next junction
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I guess he feels sorry and is trying to make amends. That said, he probably doesn’t see anything wrong with what he did and will continue doing crazy stuff on the street.
Encountered this genius an hour ago. When your windows are so blacked out that you don’t see it’s a one way road. Or may be the A-pillar was blocking his view. 
White SUV in their natural habitat
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The rules are no rules