Talk:Traffic circle

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First traffic circle in the US: "Mass. drives to remove rotaries" and Columbus Circle - --Costoa 23:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Maybe not necessarily merge them-but keep a link at the top for 'see also 'traffic cirlce'Mcode Mcode

you cant realy say that canberra has traffic circles per-say, because looking at vernon circle from above, you can see that is is closer to being connected chicanes. also, there is the fact that most of the roads in canberra are designed in a way that you can circle around. I also believe that there are probably much more well known traffic circles. --Alphamone 05:20, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oldest Circle?

I'm not exactly sure the listing for oldest circle is entirely acurate. There are plenty of older traffic circles around. Among others, Pierre L'Enfant's original street plan for Washington, D.C. has several circles designed and built in the 1800's —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.87.52 (talk) 00:46, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. The circle in Tallmadge, Ohio was apparently built in 1807, "modeled after New England designs of the time period" according to this source found at the above-linked article: History of Tallmadge, Ohio -- JeffBillman (talk) 17:13, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Restrict definition of "traffic circle"?

Some people consider that all roundabouts are traffic circles, but not all traffic circles are roundabouts. Maybe some people do informally use the term "traffic circle" for modern roundabouts in the US, but the term isn't used like that in any official publication that I can find. I believe that the term "traffic circle" is not officially used for modern roundabouts because "traffic circles" have such a bad reputation. So... I've deleted this sentence from the intro: "In some traffic circles, entering roads are controlled by stop signs or traffic signals. In other cases, traffic enters the circulatory roadway by merging, sometimes at relatively high speeds." Anyway, the subsequent sentence covers the same territory better sice the term "traditionally" does not mean "always": "Traditionally, traffic entering a circle has the right-of-way, although some circles give right-of-way to the primary roads."--Farry 13:30, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Sort-of reply here: Talk:Roundabout#Merge revisit. —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 03:17, 25 November 2007 (UTC)