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« on: September 26, 2009, 02:26:19 PM » |
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anyone have the scoop on the traffic light to be installed?
sounds like a big deal for our quaint little circle.
also. what are your thoughts on the upcoming meeting regarding the Development Moratorium?
i think it is this coming Monday night...
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« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2009, 04:29:19 PM » |
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anyone have the scoop on the traffic light to be installed?
sounds like a big deal for our quaint little circle.
also. what are your thoughts on the upcoming meeting regarding the Development Moratorium?
i think it is this coming Monday night...
Isn't the purpose of a circle or rotary to keep traffic flowing without a traffic light? |
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« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2009, 05:21:12 PM » |
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I think that it is a circle being proposed to replace the light at 87.
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« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2009, 05:42:36 PM » |
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There is a circle in play for 87 and Graham road by DSS but no light planeed for the PBO circle.
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« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2009, 06:24:15 PM » |
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Well, that makes more sense. Except, it seems that intersection has some well occupied real estate that would have to be disturbed to build a circle.
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« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2009, 06:30:53 PM » |
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There is a circle in play for 87 and Graham road by DSS but no light planeed for the PBO circle.
That area is a bit of a "monkey" junction, I call such. Isn't it funny how things evolve...traffic circles of old and considered silly. Now it's a cool correction to traffic flow and safety issues...but renamed as roundabouts  Could some slight shift in the area and plans make it such that some would not lose homes as a result? Maybe, maybe not? |
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« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2009, 07:50:47 PM » |
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I asked someone at the meeting for the US 64 long range plan what the difference was between a roundabout and a traffic circle. They couldn't give me a real definition but thought that roundabouts were smaller than traffic circles. The one on 87 is supposed to be a roundabout.
The 87 and Old Graham road is an odd intersection so they probably could put something in there, especially since they could cut into the open field on the side by the college. They've also been clearing on the other side by DSS although I don't know for certain if that's related.
In very high traffic areas, traffic lights are sometimes used to synchronize traffic coming into a traffic circle. We had a number of traffic circles in southern NJ where I grew up and my parents still live so I've watched the evolution of traffic strategies with those circles. They replaced some of them many years ago once the traffic counts got too high and then later added the lights to at least one of the others.
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« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2009, 08:03:53 PM » |
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I asked someone at the meeting for the US 64 long range plan what the difference was between a roundabout and a traffic circle. They couldn't give me a real definition but thought that roundabouts were smaller than traffic circles. The one on 87 is supposed to be a roundabout.
The 87 and Old Graham road is an odd intersection so they probably could put something in there, especially since they could cut into the open field on the side by the college. They've also been clearing on the other side by DSS although I don't know for certain if that's related.
In very high traffic areas, traffic lights are sometimes used to synchronize traffic coming into a traffic circle. We had a number of traffic circles in southern NJ where I grew up and my parents still live so I've watched the evolution of traffic strategies with those circles. They replaced some of them many years ago once the traffic counts got too high and then later added the lights to at least one of the others.
I guess no second invasion was expected by the north, since you had all the right answers to the perfect world. Why the flight? |
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« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2009, 06:59:32 PM » |
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Roundabouts in the UK can be very big (and frightening if you're used to
driving on the "wrong side" of the road). Will be interesting to see the results of
the Old Graham Rd. - 87 change.
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« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2009, 07:11:40 PM » |
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Roundabouts in the UK can be very big (and frightening if you're used to
driving on the "wrong side" of the road). Will be interesting to see the results of
the Old Graham Rd. - 87 change.
I'm having enough issues with people on the wrong side of the road as it is, with them phone yacking or texting...or going around bikes on narrow roads and NOT in the UK. |
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« Reply #10 on: September 27, 2009, 07:12:44 PM » |
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you know Hwy 751, the Chatham Co road that cuts behind Southpoint? you know where it goes into Durham, under I-85 then turns left and becomes Irwin Rd in Orange Co? that round-about?
that is all they are talking about. it is a huge improvement.
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« Reply #11 on: September 27, 2009, 08:18:26 PM » |
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I'll take a round about over a light any day - saves gas, it's safer, etc.
Nice to see that they are becoming more and more popular.
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