Traffic RoundAbouts— yay or nay?

Nope! No one understands them and they just run through. We've also got some kind of figure 8 shit coming off the freeway that makes me want to surrender my divers license, because of the people driving on the wrong side of the road.

We have a few here, very few. That is the problem. People don't know how to drive through them. Many drivers don't realize the car already in the roundabout has the right of way. I've almost gotten hit in one because someone from a side street came right into the roundabout without stopping. I voted for a good old 4-way stop.

They bug me. Especially the ones that are for 'traffic calming'.

I think they're dangerous, too. There are too many difference places where you have to check for traffic.

I like them but most people don’t know how to navigate them.

They do serve a purpose, but I think some cities put them in strange places because they are the "new" thing (at least in the midwest...). It also depends on the size as there are some around here that are so small that I pretty much have to come to a complete stop to make the turn, I'm not sure how snowplows and fire trucks get thru them. I don't mind them for minor intersections, but I don't want them at major intersections.

They can be fun, but not when you have a fan full of flower arrangements and have to go thru 4 within a couple of miles!

Apparently you are supposedly to signal when you want to exit it. Ours are small and this seems stupid

You are, it’s so people giving way to you know you’re exiting and not going around further.

If the stupid city made the 2 lanes of the round about wide enough for 2 vehicles to actually be next to each other they might be ok, but heaven forbid you enter one with a semi in the next lane, you will get hit. The landscaped center area of one of our round-a-bouts has a "lane" through it because of this. It is freaking ridiculous! If they are going to build them, at least build them correctly, otherwise give me a light or 4 way stop any day.

If people follow the rules - yield, not stop and use your blinker - they are great. Otherwise...

Hell no!

Where I live many of them were put in, then a few months later...taken out. So many accidents.
Each direction, thought they had the right of way and would go flying through them. Crash!
Now many of those round about intersections have stop signs or traffic lights. 

I hate driving through one, because the cars coming the other way usually don't slow down. I've almost been hit a couple times. I go the longer way around, to avoid the couple that are still in place. 

Ugg the city by me put in one i stead of a light at the bypass. There are more big trucks on the road than passenger vechiles and we have more months of snow than not. So the trucks take up all the room and the snow isn't cleared in both lanes making the roundabout not fully useful. Should have saved all their time and money and kept the 4 way stop if they weren't going to do a light.

We have a lot of smallish ones around and generally they are fine. I'm not crazy about the kind that have multiple lanes and you have to keep moving over. Especially when they're busy.

I don't mind them at all, but knew how to navigate them from living overseas. There is a medium sized one between here and DD's apartment that I take frequently. My biggest problem has been the bike riders who seem to think all rules of the road do not apply to them and just go flying through without even slowing down.
Back in the 80's, the first country I ever had to drive through roundabouts had different rules.  If you were already in the roundabout, you had to yield to the drivers who were entering.  Really made a mess of things for me when I got to the next country and the rules were totally different.  

These are new to me. There are a few of them near my grandson’s house. They give me anxiety and he has to help me navigate through them. He is 14 🤪🤪🤪