Yep. Our Tom Tom has been calling them "rotary" all weekend.
Washington DC is loaded with 'em. Only problem is that they have stop
lights at every freakin' exit, so traffic just crawls through them.
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On Jun 7, 2009, at 17:09, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Rotary"? Is that what we call a roundabout, and what used to be
> known in the USA as a traffic circle?
>
> Chris
>
> On 7 Jun 2009, at 21:27, Moose wrote:
>
>> Oh, I forgot about that! We have a couple of rotaries. I was
>> surprised
>> and pleased when Rhonda displayed a diagram of a rotary with the
>> correct
>> number of connecting roads (Yeah, I looked while waiting for the car
>> ahead to proceed.) and announced something like "Enter the rotary,
>> turn
>> off on the third road, xyz Street."
>
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