Roundabouts vs traffic lights

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:03 am

we had 3 roundabouts here in phuket, every one is closed now
Thai's will NEVER yield right of way.

Put anyone behind a wheel and its THEIR ROAD an they are number 1

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:33 am

Anchor Moy wrote:According to this article, the UK is going back to intersections with traffic lights, while the US is starting to build more roundabouts. I like roundabouts myself, since you make your own decisions.
Roundabouts promote more fluid traffic circulation and are supposed to reduce bad accidents because they decrease speed, but traffic lights give equal time to traffic on all roads at the intersection, which is important with heavy city traffic.
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/ ... ts-way-out

As for Cambodia, would it help to have more roundabouts and less traffic lights, since nobody pays attention to red lights anyway, or would that make things even worse ?

Well, lets take the Golden Lion roundabout in SNVL as an example; People drive both ways round that roundabout. One needs to be extremely alert when traversing it. I prefer traffic lights and something to stop cars from driving the wrong way down the road, it's bad enough that tuk tuks do it on Monivong let alone a badly driven Lexus or Land cruiser. Seeing as people often drive the wrong way at speed at night with no lights on, it seems to render traffic lights or roundabouts as a moot point.

SinnSisamouth · Post by **SinnSisamouth** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:38 am

I remember a busy four way junction in the UK controlled by lights. Always snarled up as the lights were never synced (long queue one side short in the other) and it'd take 10 mins to get through.

One day the lights were out and there was no queue! People just seemed to react better having to decide what to do.

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 10:45 am

SinnSisamouth wrote:I remember a busy four way junction in the UK controlled by lights. Always snarled up as the lights were never synced (long queue one side short in the other) and it'd take 10 mins to get through.

One day the lights were out and there was no queue! People just seemed to react better having to decide what to do.

I like the Vietnamese Idea of traffic lights. 30 sec delay ether way. Keeps the traffic flowing and frustration low. PP traffic lights are the pits. Glad they seem to have changed the timing on the Monivong/ Russian boulevard section to a minute and a half as opposed to the 2.5 minutes they used to be. But they could certainly do with a few more on the southern half of Monivong, People cutting-in and crossing from all the side streets into speeding traffic.

One things for sure, you need to stay alert, and don't forget the lucky 2 dollar note under the seat!.

vladimir · Post by **vladimir** » Tue Oct 20, 2015 4:14 pm

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Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Fri Nov 13, 2015 12:39 am

haha in the UK a lot of round abouts actually have traffic lights on now lol

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