Comments on just up the pike: roundabouts, or how to make a big traffic impact f...

Personally, I dig the roundabouts. Before the one ...

2008-06-26T10:28:47.675-04:00

Personally, I dig the roundabouts. Before the one at Old Columbia Pike and Perrywood, the traffic for parents dropping off their kids at Banneker MS would back up Perrywood a block or more. After the roundabout, virtually no backups. And they beat the hell out of annoying traffic lights. Wish they'd put one in at Old Columbia Pike and Greencastle in place of that light.

As far as I'm concerned, the problem with the roun...

2008-06-25T14:02:05.011-04:00

As far as I'm concerned, the problem with the roundabout on 16th st. is primarily due to the lack of a traffic light from colesville to the circle. There are lights elsewhere around the circle and folks entering the circle from those points on the green light have the right of way. Why Moco or State of MD has not installed a traffic light there is amazing.

I should probably clarify:I know how to get in and...

2008-06-25T13:42:46.282-04:00

I should probably clarify:

I know how to get in and out of roundabouts. But judging from how many near accidents I've been in at 16th/Colesville, other people either: 1, don't know how to get in and out of roundabouts; or 2, don't realize that the intersection is already a roundabout.

Perhaps I am mistaken, though, and it is not a roundabout. All I know is that no one - no one - on 16th Street yields to those in the roundabout as they enter it themselves. And seeing as how they're on 16th Street, they're generally going about 40-45 mph, way above posted limits.

Motor vehicles in a roundabout or traffic-circle h...

2008-06-25T13:12:01.387-04:00

Motor vehicles in a roundabout or traffic-circle have the right of way, both as they travel in it and as they exit from it.

I should point out that people trying to get from Colesville Road westbound should probably have turned south on Georgia Avenue and then enter the District and then cut over on Alaska Avenue NW to get down to 16th.

Do you know if there's ever been any consideration...

2008-06-25T10:51:41.135-04:00

Do you know if there's ever been any consideration for a better roundabout at 16th St/Colesville Road as you're entering Silver Spring from DC?

Right now, it's a quasi-roundabout that confuses me to no end. Should I yield to cars already in the ovalabout? Should they yield to me? Which lanes are going which way? And traffic on 16th Street is forever blocked by cars trying to turn from Colesville Road to 16th Street southbound.