<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>What's the difference between a roundabout and a turnabout? I'd only heard of roundabouts.<div><br></div><div>By the way, I like roundabouts but I don't get the ones with stop signs at the entrances. That seems to defeat the beauty of the thing. I think they do it just to annoy people into using another route. The roundabouts with stop signs seem to occur mostly in neighborhoods.</div><div><br></div><div>Scott<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"JD" <jdp@algoloma.com><br><b>To: </b>"Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale@ale.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 22, 2013 4:15:20 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] [OT] Cars and licensing... (Was: Re: Well, this does nothing for the reputation of Linux)<br><br>On 07/22/2013 02:52 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>> I'm a growing fan of "turnabouts" as a replacement for traffic lights. It takes<br>> some getting used to but it's (nearly) zero maintenance. And the center can be a<br>> nice planting with some beefy steel crash bars.<br>> <br><br>I prefer roundabouts to turnabouts. Hard for large trucks to use either, I<br>guess. We know intersections in our residential feeders where a roundabout would<br>work better than current 3-minute lights.<br><br>Anyone else read that last sentence as "cash bar?" Great idea! Pubs should be<br>closer to our homes.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>