Circles de Ole
Traffic circles – a fine idea – in Europe! In Seattle, not so much. For some reason, Seattle-ites seem to have trouble deciding how to enter them. But then again, maybe I’m the one who is clueless and there are secret rules of which I’m unaware. Perhaps it is something simple like “On even numbered Mondays, enter traffic circles to the right on streets beginning with the letter ‘S’ and on odd number Thursdays, enter traffic circles to the left on all streets….unless the Mariners are playing a home game…” Whatever the rules are, I’ve almost been smacked head-on by cars cutting left at a circle while I was trying to enter from the right. And most of them are TOO DARN BIG for the intersections in which they are placed anyway. It’s inconvenient enough that cars park on both sides of already narrow streets but even when you manage to thread your way to an intersection, the bloody circles are big enough to house a drive-through Starbucks.
I’m curious. Does Seattle have something against stop signs? I see them at some intersections but not others. What is the reasoning behind that? Did we exhaust our Federal subsidy for red octagonal signs or was the money siphoned off to help try and keep the Sonics in Seattle or fund the Monorail Project?
Oh, wait…….