http://thecoastnews.com/2013/01/potential-roundabouts-in-rancho-santa-fe-being-met-with-opposition/ Making Waves in Your Neighborhood Sun, 19 May 2013 23:33:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://thecoastnews.com/2013/01/potential-roundabouts-in-rancho-santa-fe-being-met-with-opposition/comment-page-1/#comment-61480 Reed Stephens Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:43:37 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=57898#comment-61480 I think some people need to find a more constructive use of their time than criticizing every new project or development that is proposed in Rancho Santa Fe and the coastal communities. These roundabouts are a perfect example. All you have to do is drive through the roundabouts on Santa Fe and Leucadia Blvd to find out how effective they are at moving traffic and allowing bikes and pedestrians to move about safely. Roundabouts WILL be effective if built on Hwy 101 between Encinitas Blvd and La Costa. They are already proven effective. Pull your heads out of the sand people.

]]> http://thecoastnews.com/2013/01/potential-roundabouts-in-rancho-santa-fe-being-met-with-opposition/comment-page-1/#comment-61476 Emily Rose Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:10:41 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=57898#comment-61476 Good Morning. I work for the Center for Sustainability and Governmental and Regulatory Affairs at Pepperdine University. I have done research on roundabouts and there are some serious issues you are not addressing within your article. First, roundabouts eliminate the deadly T-bone collision by virtue of geometry. Roundabouts offer a soft circle drive that keeps traffic flowing, congestion and idling low, including increased fuel efficiency and the independence from traffic lights and energy, and people happy. These are not the rotary intersections people mistake for roundabouts being installed, but MODERN roundabouts that are highly efficient and environmentally friendly (trees, shrubs can be planted around and within the circle of the roundabout model). Rotary intersections are such that have caused Americans traveling in Europe to get anxious because they are often driving the opposite way they are used to, in a rental car, and in unfamiliar territory. Altogether that experience may be remembered with the idea of another “similar” seeming intersection. However, a modern roundabout is different and is an effective design that should be incorporated into neighbourhoods and will not detract from the beauty of the location it is installed, nor to the safety of its denizens.

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