if I were ET I would give Earth a wiiiide berth!
And locals call them both Rotaries. There are even road signs calling them rotaries.
Me does not care what a circular traffic device is called . We have a new type of intersection where you go to the right and make a u-turn to go left . It has a name but I don’t know what it is all I know is that it is safer for the many school buses that need to access the highway .
Me either.
I’ve seen those on US15 north of Frederick, MD. They’ve been there for years. I don’t recall seeing them anywhere else.
Have you ever driven in NJ? All over the place there
Is it an RCUT?
An RCUT (Restricted Crossing U-turn) intersection is a design that improves safety by altering the path of vehicles on minor roads to avoid direct left turns and through-traffic from the side road. Instead of turning left or crossing the main road, drivers are required to make a right turn onto the main road, then proceed to a designated U-turn lane a short distance away to continue in their desired direction. This design eliminates high-risk crossing and left-turn conflicts, significantly reducing severe crashes.
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RCUT - possible. I like it but my neighbor does not.
Ever seen one of these? To make a left turn onto Legacy from Preston you drive past Legacy, do a u-turn, then turn right at Legacy. They tried it for a while, then gave up and went back to the normal left turn lanes:
Excuse the crude illustration, but does the element you guy are referring to look like this?
It’s a two-lane state road with access to and egress from the southbound side of a highway that passes through my hometown.
Left turns, directly from the state road onto the ‘On-ramp’ are prohibited (although once in a while you’ll get that somebody who insists on turning left from that left lane!), and you must turn right and go through the indeed R-shaped d o o h i c k e y on the right of the drawing to queue up for depicted On-ramp.
That R thing is governed by its own TCS (yes, that’s police parlance for Traffic Control Signal!)
That’s an odd one. It’s a standard Michigan Left but with an added Texas Turnaround for some reason.
’Traffic Circles were constructed in New Hampshire from about the 1940’s to 1960’s. They fell out of favor beginning in the 1960’s because they relied on high speed merging of traffic and the traffic in the circle commonly yielded to traffic entering the circle causing traffic jams within the circle. While traffic circles fell out of use in the US many European countries modified the design and eventually created the modern roundabout. The modern roundabouts have since gained renewed interest in the US because of the safety benefits, high capacity, traffic calming effect, and aesthetic value they can bring to an intersection.
https://www.dot.nh.gov/about-nh-dot/divisions-bureaus-districts/highway-design/roundabouts
A search for ‘rotary’ on their site turned up nothing.
I’ve stated this MULTIPLE times and you keep arguing. What’s wrong with you?
I specifically stated that the state calls them Traffic circles, but the population and towns and cities call them Rotary’s. What’s so hard to comprehend? And why does it bother you so much?
In this article the town of Derry NH debates Traffic Circles. Yet all through the article they refer to them as ROTARY.
And then there’s this -
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I haven’t argued. The NHDOT calls the new things roundabouts and the old ones traffic circles.
That article calls them roundabouts and traffic circles too, and quotes from that page from the NHDOT site.
Thanks for the picture.
It’s an important distinction, as the NHDOT explains.
That is from a Facebook post, in that post there are 360 comments regarding the preferred name for a traffic circle.
For example:
When I went to college in NH I learned that they call it a traffic circle
as in the Portsmouth traffic circle. I was like whaaat??!! It’s a ROTARY!!
Rotary = Roundabout = Traffic Circle
Hero = Sub = Wedge
(Judge TireWhisperer bangs gavel on bench) 
Chris, I agree with you. You forgot “Hogie"!
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Yes you have….over and over. Get over it.
And grinders!
Though I think the most common term, courtesy of Subway, is subs. I order subs from our local supermarket deli, then drive (got to make is car related) to the store to pick them up.