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Traffic movie 20118/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Hunt estimates that more than 100 hours of cars just sitting there wasting gas will be saved every day after the retrofit. At peak hours, you have hundreds of vehicles, literally." "You have 20 cars almost every single cycle" stopped and wasting gas at every cycle, Hunt says. Right now they've been there for about 30 seconds," Hunt says. "They're coming to a stop over at Cesar Chavez. Hunt says there will be huge savings in emissions when cars no longer idle at a red light. After the street lights are ripped out and the new circle put in, cars will flow through without stopping. will be the first intersection retrofit in the city. This ragged five-leg intersection in East L.A. Chavez Avenue and Indiana and Lorena streets. NPR met Michael Hunt, a transportation engineer with the City of Los Angeles, at the junction of Cesar E. (Older-design traffic circles, meanwhile, did not meet all three of these criteria.) will throw its hat in the ring and get its first modern roundabout, which means three things: the roundabout will be large, drivers will be forced to slow down as they approach the roundabout by a deflecting island, and they'll have to yield on entry. Chicago has seen a big jump cities in Colorado have them. In 2007, for example, there were about 970 in 2011, there are more than 2,000, according to Lee Rodegerdts of Kittelson and Associates, a transportation engineering and planning firm.Īnd soon there could be lots of roundabouts in your city. "Because there's cars and there's gonna be a lot of blood and then you can get hit when you're trying to get there," says her son, Alon, 6. The family even has a special name for them, Keiter says: "the blood circle." But Sheila Keiter and her two sons say they avoided the roundabout because they think it's too dangerous. Perkins grew up in Denmark, where there are lots of them. "It was as good as it always is," Perkins says. Matt Perkins was the first to stop after riding around one on his bike. Near a standard traffic circle in West Los Angeles, a nexus of car culture, NPR put up a handwritten sign that said, "Talk to a reporter about roundabouts." But there are still a few roadblocks in the way of a true roundabout revolution. And many American cities are planning to put in more. Studies have shown that they even reduce accidents. Modern traffic circles can cut down on commute time and pollution. has increased dramatically, from the low hundreds up to the thousands. Over the past decade, the number of roundabouts in the U.S.
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