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Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: john9001 on July 24, 2004, 02:43:31 PM
wile watching the tour of france i see many traffic circles(round-a -bouts) on two lane roads, are they common in europe? i do not see many in the USA, we just stick up stop signs.

BTW beautiful country france
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: Bodhi on July 24, 2004, 03:07:53 PM
never driven in boston... eh?
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: qts on July 24, 2004, 03:54:01 PM
They're very common indeed in Britain. They're comparatively rare in France.
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: straffo on July 24, 2004, 04:06:48 PM
Depend of the region Qts , in the loire valley there is plenty of it.


Not to make and touristic advertisement for France but we have the luck to have a pretty diverse landscape on a small country.
In fact I thing with have the almost same diversity as the US but in a very smaller place.
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: Nilsen on July 24, 2004, 04:20:22 PM
not very many here but they are growing in numbers
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: BUG_EAF322 on July 24, 2004, 05:01:21 PM
many of them in holland
they work pretty good

if u team up with 4 cars u can block the entrance :D
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: Nash on July 24, 2004, 05:02:49 PM
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Originally posted by straffo
we have the luck to have a pretty diverse landscape on a small country.
In fact I thing with have the almost same diversity as the US but in a very smaller place.


Quite true... From Normandy to the Côte d'Azur to the Alps and the Atlantic coast... France pretty much has it all. Only thing missing I think is the prairies. But ya kinda have that too...
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: Furball on July 24, 2004, 05:15:53 PM
they are everywhere in britain.  in fact, a while ago i remember a newspaper article taking the piss out of americans because of something ridiculous like 400 accidents had taken place at this one small round-a-bout because it was the first introduced to a certain area, and no one knew what the hell to do with it.
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: Furball on July 24, 2004, 05:26:28 PM
and just to shock you.. check this out

http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/roundabout.htm

There are a lot more than 3 of these like it says there i can assure you.
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: straffo on July 24, 2004, 05:47:14 PM
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Originally posted by Nash
Quite true... From Normandy to the Côte d'Azur to the Alps and the Atlantic coast... France pretty much has it all. Only thing missing I think is the prairies. But ya kinda have that too...


hmmm... I don't think we have the equivalent as almost all the flat part are under cultivation for corn and wheat.
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: Nash on July 24, 2004, 05:51:53 PM
lotsa wheat this side of the pond, but lotsa oil too.
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: straffo on July 24, 2004, 06:01:58 PM
We have oil near Paris too :)
(but compared to Texas it's a joke :))


see http://www4.esso.com/Files/PA/Europe/Petrole_ile_de_france.pdf

(in French)
Title: question for my euro friends
Post by: Holden McGroin on July 24, 2004, 06:21:18 PM
(http://www.branimirphoto.ca/gallery/arizona/saguaro.jpg)
Does France have something like this anymore?  I know you used to, but you done give it away in '62.
Title: Re: question for my euro friends
Post by: GRUNHERZ on July 24, 2004, 06:44:50 PM
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Originally posted by john9001

BTW beautiful country france


John are you  of German descent?