Now maybe that’s a way to put some excitement into our roundabouts… Start going clockwise like the Europeans. 
I hate that crap.
My exes car had a start stop system.
Thank God they can’t make it work properly with manual transmission vehicles.
Eh won’t help me any.
My state doesn’t do emissions testing. So half the cars here run rich as hell because they won’t replace faulty oxygen sensors.
Back when I was driving my old car I was afraid to smoke cigarettes in traffic because of how bad the fuel smell was from all the ■■■■■■ cars running too rich.
I don’t smoke in my new car though. Proud of myself on that one considering I’ve had it a year.
I’m in the car five or more days a week for up to two hours a day. I sit around a campfire ten, fifteen times a year.
I assume you’re a smoker then? What do you do on long trips? Rest stops?
Yepp. If it’s a long trip I’ll drive for three to four hours and then hit a gas station or rest stop to smoke.
My sister has to do the same thing since she bought a new car.
Our mother though… she can drive a brand new car off the lot and the first thing she does is ruin it with a cig.
I’m with you. First spot I see, none of that circling. Usually it’s faster than circling anyways.
Unless you’re handicapped, why waste time circling?
Another good argument to replace signalized intersections with round-abouts wherever possible.
Doesn’t sound right statistically speaking. There are far fewer criminals than law abiding citizens so no, I don’t think it’s just as likely.
And what good info are they getting by casing my house? All burglars really care about is whether you are home or away and I guess whether you have security/camera’s, but since they are finding the answer is yes, I am home and yes, I have a security system, a large dog and camera’s I don’t see what benefit they are deriving from it.
My total time sitting in drive throughs a year is probably something like twenty minutes so I don’t think it’s something worth worrying about, I seriously doubt it raises my risk of cancer appreciably.
Now if they replaced those signalized intersections with roundabouts, I could agree. Putting stop lights on through ways is asking for accidents, particularly when the cross street never has to stop.
Jeeze, just think. All of those cars who now have to find a parking spot. A PARKING SPOT, black top when there could be trees instead!
Heck, my car turns itself off when I’m sitting at a traffic light or in a drive through until I take my foot off the brake. Then again, it parallel parks itself, too.
Sounds a bit like backwards thinking masquerading as faulty forward thinking.
Especially the sidewalk thing. Cause, you know 100 cars in an hour is different with one entry and exit no matter if they had to park first or not. 
Did they actually do a study to determine how much air quality will be improved if they do this, or is it just a “feel good” law?
As far as choosing whether to use a drive through, I do not. My credit card number has been stolen enough times to prefer to reduce the times it disappears from my sight.
As others have noted, nice way to benefit existing large chains at the expense of potential start ups.
I would never use a credit card at a drive thru. Cash only.
I rented a car to go from London to RAF Lakenheath to visit the Air Force Exchange when I was stationed in London. Hit the roundabout and was promptly met by 2 cars coming the other way.
Hopped the car up on to the curb and missed utter devastation!
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a signal like that, but there is a signal on the Saw Mill Pkwy leaving NYC that can catch you by surprise.
Roundabouts work as intended, eliminating signals and slowing all traffic before the intersection.
Yikes!
I imagine over there they said, “YANKS!!!#&%!!!”
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I didn’t have a problem turning wrong direction. I had trouble looking correct direction for traffic comming. I almost stepped off a curb a couple of times in front of busses in London. Not to mention driving.
We’ve had some adventures over there too. Not quite that bad though. 