Comments on: The Times Union: sensationalistic death peddlers?

By: Mickey

Mickey — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:47:10 +0000

Wow, every word of your post is 100% on the money.

Well done, Kevin.

By: luvpudders

luvpudders — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:13:21 +0000

Summer + tourists + roundabouts = BIG PROBLEM.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:11:10 +0000

If you want to see a crazy rotary (as they are called in my native New England), check this one out:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=East+Longmeadow,+MA&hl=en&ll=42.064854,-72.512904&spn=0.001744,0.003964&sll=42.073762,-72.509766&sspn=1.785923,4.059448&t=h&z=18

The first thing you’ll notice is that seven roads converge on a patch of land no more than 200 feet wide. What you can’t see in this picture, is that the person in the rotary doesn’t actually have the right of way. A person going south onto Route 220 actually has to stop for traffic where that arrow sits on the map.

After learning on that rotary, no rotary is complicated.

By: A.C.

A.C. — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:42:17 +0000

Em, you can just get off the second rotary, make a right onto New Scotland, and cruise right into Price Chopper that way.

By: jack straw

jack straw — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:56:22 +0000

if you can’t navigate through a roundabout without getting into a car accident, you shouldn’t have a license.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 21:27:29 +0000

Maybe it’s because I actually read whole articles instead of thinking I can get all the information I need to make a judgment on a morsel of information, but I read it the same way you did. I have yet to get in an accident at one of those things, but I also approach with caution and pray no one decides now would be a great time to run me off the road.

By: Em

Em — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:38:36 +0000

Actually you do have to go an extra few blocks now coming off of Rotue 85 to get to the Price Chopper in Slingerlands because the stupid road blocks access to turn left so you have to go down the street and around the stupid rotary and back up again instead of just turning into the damned parking lot.
Not that I care though because Capital Region drivers can suck my finger.

By: Kevin Marshall

Kevin Marshall — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:09:46 +0000

I?NY – I might be misreading, but are you insinuating that roundabouts were part of a greater conspiracy to increase gas consumption? Because the removal of traffic lights means less idling means less is used. So how would that work exactly? Or are you trying too hard to be clever in insinuating people are drunk if they think that the problem isn’t the roundabouts but the drivers?

By: I?NY

I?NY — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:04:25 +0000

Yes, there’s problems with roundabouts so government didn’t make a mistake, the people are stupid. What is ethanol made of again?

By: HomeTownGirl

HomeTownGirl — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:32:17 +0000

The wheels on the bus go roundabout, roundabout, roundabout….