STOP signs and roundabouts
Have you ever wonder whose turn is it at a STOP sign, especially when there is an ALL WAY STOP and there is one car at each of the 4 corners? Sweet moment… While you figure it out, you make figures of how much gas is spent (wasted I mean to say) if all the STOPs in this country are counted and multiplied by the amount of cars that stop at each. Although very popular and easy to install, you consider them a great pain in the b… without even talking about the time of the day (usually dark) when there are no other car but yours in the whole neighborhood and you just brake and wait there like a Martian just arrived on the surface of the earth, or you just decide it’s too stupid to brake and don’t. From the bottom of your heart, don’t you really hate STOP signs?
Let me tell you that there is much to be learned from other peoples in this world, believe it or not, especially from the French. Don’t you think so? You know: vaccines, antibiotics, precursors of the Internet, TGV, baguette, super good cheeses, and … eureka! Roundabouts! I’m not sure if they invented the roundabouts but they have found out that they are the best way to save gas and time, and avoid accidents.
I accept that for us in Nacirema, it’s really weird the way the French have installed their stop lights at the corner of the streets actually.
Yes, you stop right next to the red light, it’s not across the street from where you stop, it’s right next to your car, if you can imagine what I’m saying. When French people come to the USA, they need to pay close attention where they stop at the red light!!! Very dangerous situation! Please stay out of their way if you can!
Not only did the French popularize the roundabouts but they take advantage of the opportunity to do something with them, beautiful gardens, sculptures, flour or pebble designs, jokes, science and more. I visited the south of France this year and took some awesome pics of really creative roundabouts. Take a peak.
Not only did the French popularize the roundabouts but they take advantage of the opportunity to do something with them, beautiful gardens, sculptures, flour or pebble designs, jokes, science and more. I visited the south of France this year and took some awesome pics of really creative roundabouts. Take a peak.
Rond Point à Saint Tropez, Provence.
There are roundabouts everywhere, and French people get tired about them. Austin has some peculiar roundabouts like the one next to the Long Center and two on South 3d street at the corners of W Mary and W Annie streets. I don't have pics but you can see them neatly in maps.google.
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