marine73 wrote:
The first time I encountered a roundabout was at camp Lejeune NC, it was a two lane roundabout in front of the base headquarters building and was a pain to get off base at 1600 on a Friday when everyone and there brother wanted to swoop home for the weekend. If you were in the inside lane you could find yourself going around an around before someone would let you move over so you could exit.
Our local traffic circle used to be large enough that that wasn't a problem. There was plenty of room to move into a different lane. Also, if you saw a car entering the circle, you had enough time to enter. With this new, small roundabout, if you see a car enter, you don't have enough room to enter until it passes.