[NAGDU] Roundabouts

[Tracy Carcione]

I was just reading an article on roundabouts, and I wonder how they work for
guide dog users.  A roundabout replaces the 4-way intersection with a
traffic light, with which we're all familiar.  As I understand it, which
isn't very well, the cars don't stop; they go slowly around a circle until
they get to the street they want to go down.  But how does a pedestrian get
across?  Do I have to count on crazed drivers to give me an opening, and my
dog to save me if I get it wrong?  Sounds way too much like the T
intersection near my house where I routinely took my life in my hands until
I got the county to put a talking box on the traffic light.  Don't want to
go back to that again.

So, does anyone know how to deal with a roundabout?  Is that why blind
people in the UK are supposed to carry an ID cane, so they can wave it at
drivers at a roundabout?  Not at all sure that would work on the psychos
driving in New Jersey.

Not expecting to come across one of these things any time soon, but I'd like
to know.

Tracy