Round A-bouts

Years ago when I was in Australia, I remember making a comment to my Aussie friends about their Round a-bouts. These r.a.bs (rounds a-bouts) were everywhere instead of stop signs. Even in the big city of Sydney there were r.a.bs . I told them that this would never work in Toronto because people are not patient enough to yield to traffic.

Well, years later I moved into a new subdivision and instead of stop signs we have r.a.bs. We've been in the house for only 3 months and I surprised I haven't seen an accident. For those of you that don't know about r.a.bs let me educate you on how to drive a r.a.b.

When you approach a r.ab. you MUST slow down and YIELD to the cars in the r.a.b. If there is no car you may proceed in...but if you see on oncoming car you must STOP before entering the r.a.b. I can not tell you how many times I had to STOP when in the r.a.b to cars speeding in. NO car should have to stop while in the r.a.b.

Today it happened again while driving the kids to school. I'm in the r.ab. and I can see the car speeding up to try to bet me...but today I played a little chicken and I didn't stop. In the end I had to slam on my brakes and exchange some nasty looks.

Silvana