"Mike Andrews" wrote in message
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In rec.radio.amateur.homebrew Richard Henry wrote:

"Jim Thompson" wrote in
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BTW, Scottsdale also uses tight-ass round-abouts to slow traffic...
you have to slow or you'll rollover.

Can you give me the address of such an intersection? I'd like to look
at
some on google maps for background on a local street-improvement
project.

Google for "chicane"; that's the generic name for tight wiggle-like
features built into roads and streets to force traffic to slow down.

Our local problem is a street that is normally lightly-travelled, but gets
congested during the morning and afternoon because of traffic to/from the
high school. The city has proposed widening the whole length (it varies
from 50-year-old twisty 2-lane to modern 6-lane boulevard over the stretch
in question) and a local group has proposed traffic circles at 4 critical
interrsections.