• SoGrumpy@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    In about 1968, my dad drove round the roundabout in front of Buckingham Palace so us kids could get a better gander at the palace.

    We got pulled over by a Bobby on the third circuit, and I kid you not, his first question was ‘What’s going on here, then?’ We were told if we wanted a better look, we would have to park the car and walk - like everyone else. The answer to the question is 3.

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      4 months ago

      Wow, y’all have had roundabouts since the 60’s? I didn’t see any in the US until like 2010.

      And here I thought they were modern inventions

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        4 months ago

        Funnily enough, the concept of a circular traffic junction - in a form similar to a roundabout today - was first introduced in Washington DC in the 1790s, including the Dupont Circle.

        So literally speaking, you septics invented the roundabout traffic circle.