Roundabouts | City of Carmel
www.carmel.in.gov

What do we think of this?

I personally dislike driving on roundabouts, but some stats (are they good stats?) show beneficial effects on traffic and safety.

Apparently the City of Carmel got a mayor who had a thing for roundabouts

    • BumpInTheNight [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      The link says "The number of injury accidents in Carmel have reduced by about 80 percent and the number of accidents overall by about 40 percent. Our numbers are similar to those reported by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety."

      "Researchers at Ryerson Polytechnic University, the Institute, and the University of Maine studiedcrashes and injuries at 24 intersections be-fore and after construction of roundabouts.The study found a 39 percent overall de-crease in crashes and a 76 percent decrease in injury-producing crashes. Collisions involving fatal or incapacitating injuries fell as much as 90 percent." according to https://web.archive.org/web/20140714142530/https://www.k-state.edu/roundabouts/news/sr3505.pdf

      I can't vouch for the quality of that study.

          • LangdonAlger [any]
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            4 years ago

            They're a little confusing but you're not gonna get tboned by a guy in a lifted truck going 60 cuz he's running a red

            • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              This is the big thing, people drive slower causing both lower accidents and the accidents they do have are far far far less deadly.