[NAGDU] Roundabouts

[Jody ianuzzi]

Good morning Tracy,

I talked to our state O and M instructor about roundabouts. He is very experienced and he knows that I am an excellent traveler. His advice was to go up the street to the next intersection and avoid the roundabout. He basically said fools rush in war angels fear to tread!  Some roundabouts have no allowances for pedestrians  larger ones might have a crossing area but I will still avoid them and go to the next intersection up the street.  

JODY

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> On Mar 30, 2021, at 10:00 AM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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