More West Seattle Driving Pet Peeves

[KBear]

Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone go straight through to the left of a circle, but given the rampant ignorance among Seattle drivers, I guess it’s bound to happen! I think all the circles have caution markers in the middle of them. How hard would it have been to put an arrow pointing to the right on each of those signs?

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[datamuse]

Kimberley: my recent experience was in Ireland, where our (remote, rural) cottage was situated such that we had to drive through Galway on our way to most anywhere. My husband was navigating while I drove and would tell me how many more roundabouts I had to drive through (some of them three lanes wide).

They’re surprisingly easy to get used to and the only time I really had a problem was when traffic backed up into one.

Somebody told me once that traffic enforcement sorta winks at going left at a traffic circle because that’s the only way emergency vehicles can do it–a hook-and-ladder, for instance, just isn’t going to be able to go around a neighborhood traffic circle to the right. I remember a traffic circle on Capitol Hill that I couldn’t get my (not that big, really) pickup around if a car was parked too close to where I entered it. But that pickup’s turning radius was ridiculously wide.

The one that peeves me is drivers who act like they don’t have a stop sign because you don’t, or like you should have a stop sign because they do. I’ve nearly been t-boned turning left from 9th onto Holden any number of times because of this.

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