It appears that some key members of Taipei City Council agree. The removal has been paused.
Guy
I’m all in with more roundabouts. And more popcorns. What are the Mandarin/Taiwanese equivalents of “rotonda sin fuente, rotonda de frente”?
Perfectly designed to slow down traffic without diminishing throughput or move human evolution towards a brighter future.
I kinda dislike roundabouts in general and over here in the Bay Area we have very few which is wonderful
And the few I’ve come across have been tiny ones that made perfectly NO Sense
Sunset district is just STOP
Signs on near every street and
They put in a roundabout but the stop signs remain
So now you stop and wait as normal but the oncoming car now has to negotiate its way around the roundabout instead of just driving straight
Takes seconds more time
Have seen a couple small ones in Berkeley too that made no sense
Seems someone just wanted a couple roundabouts just to have a couple roundabouts
Tiny roundabouts can be fun, if there is no traffic you can swerve through them at speed… especially on a motorbike.
Roundabouts are fun…
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That seems a bit much!
Guy
Video works for me
That video Works for me as well. I wonder what was going on though. Was that traffic circle too small for a big bus like that?
Durham made a video about how large vehicles should navigate a roundabout.
Maybe the bus driver was being lazy and a U-turn on the roundabout was on any route?
I dunno, roundabouts might be a good solution, but I find entering them stressful. Like the Ren’ai Circle, for example. It’s psychological, I guess. 
None of Taiwan’s roundabouts operate like how roundabouts are supposed to. So the experience of using Taiwan’s “roundabouts” can hardly be used to assess what it’s like to use a roundabout.
That’s not a roundabout. It’s a traffic circle.
The Tienmu traffic circle has had it road markings repainted to make it function more like a roundabout. There are very definate stop/give way lines for traffic entering the circle so that those on it have priority now.
Works a lot better now in my opinion.
What’s the difference apart from size, number of lanes?
It can be used to assess what it’s like to use a “roundabout” in Taiwan, and that’s what matters to me, because l am living here and not in a country where real roundabouts exist.
By the way l have extensive driving experience in Europe and know exactly what it’s like to enter the good roundabouts of Germany and France. I don’t like the experience there either, even if they are good for traffic flow and what not.
Compared to other junctions without traffic lights, such as stop signs, you only need to pay attention to one side of the traffic before entering. If people are using it correctly, you also only need to pay attention to traffic on the lane you want to enter. It is much less stressful for me.
Compared to traffic lights that make you wait 2 minutes or more before you can enter, especially in rush hour traffic, where you can get halfway through the intersection only to get stuck and have the light turn red on you, roundabouts are also much less stressful.
Biggest advatage I have with them is that if there is no traffic you just go, unlike a red light where there can be no traffic (esp at 6am) and you have to eait for 90 seconds.
I agree with all the advantages of roundabouts, I just don’t like the idea of having to turn right when my direction is straight ahead. Like I said, it’s just something mental, not rational.
Of course, one of the advantages is the reduced likelihood of someone running a red light at high speed. Everyone is slowing down when they see a circle instead of a straight road across an intersection.
Pretty common in New Jersey at least