Tiny roundabouts are demon spawn.
DEMON.
SPAWN.
As you may know I've been commuting 30 minutes to Sammamish for the past two weeks until my team moves. It's a nice place, can see mountains and nature and stuffz while I'm driving and I'm going the opposite direction of most traffic both ways. But like 5 minutes away from the building is THIS THING
OK WHAT EVEN.
Normal roundabouts/traffic circles/driving circle spinny things/whatEVER are ok, but this one is TINY. What benefit does this even have over just a plain old stoplight?
The thing about this terror is that theres like, NO WAY to know what people are doing. Rule #1 for being a cautious driver is assume people are STUPID. It's a fairly safe assumption. But seriously are you going? Are you turning? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
How do you even signal in this thing?? There's probably some rules somewhere but it's definitely not intuitive and therefor its likely a BAD IDEA. I want to exit. Is that a right turn? But I'm facing straight at it? But that make me go left from where I am? WHAT IS IT????
Oh so there's a little thing that says 'yield to traffic in the circle'. YEAH RIGHT. People don't freaking yield. I imagine they just go YOLO and hit the gas because half the time they start trying to go when I'm trying to exit. Which DOESN'T WORK PEOPLE.
So you know what ends up happening half the time? I just wait forever for people to GTFO while the person behind me is like dying because they're living in Fast and Furious 213 where they drive with reckless abandon and/or I just suck. OR I end up going around the ENTRE CIRCLE. Which is so ANNOYING.
I can't wait to go back to main campus. I can WALK to work. There's no roundabouts when you walk.
LONG LIVE THE STOPLIGHT.
-Stripe
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