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There are 10,000+ roundabouts in the US and the number is growing rapidly. One could argue they may even be overused in certain areas (exhibit: Carmel, Indiana)
by geekifier 8mo ago
There are 10,000+ roundabouts in the US and the number is growing rapidly. One could argue they may even be overused in certain areas (exhibit: Carmel, Indiana).
- ImPostingOnHN 8mo ago>There are 10,000+ roundabouts in the US So about 0.003 roundabouts per square mile, or 1 roundabouts in 380 square miles
- olyjohn 8mo agoWhat's the significance of roundabouts per square mile? It seems pretty meaningless if I'm honest. There's huge swaths of rural land where roundabouts are totally unnecessary.
- ImPostingOnHN 8mo agoThere are also huge swathes of city, much like other countries. At the same time, the US is much larger than most, so "There are 10,000+ roundabouts in the US" isn't very significant. A proportion would thus be a better metric here than an absolute number. If you have numbers on intersections per country, and what proportion of them are roundabouts, that would be better, but I don't, so I'm using land as a proxy. I would also accept sum total road length as an option for denominator.
- InfraScaler 8mo agoThere are more than 15k only in Spain. 10k in the US is nothing.