Does This Design Force Drivers to Slow Down?

I guess in the sense that you can feel the paint.

We used to have one here in Lubbock back when population was around 75,000. Now we are admitting to 249,999, and probably nearer 300K. The old "Tahoka Traffic Circle" was taken out and replaced during the major I-27 construction that installed overpasses, underpasses, access roads, and at six lanes on the Interstate, etc.

I fail to see how a small circle (with or without the buried turtle) could possibly be safer than a traffic light controlled intersection, especially when trucks (lorries), freighters, or large UFV's "fly through straight ahead". I would not want to be the granny attempting a 270 degree turnabout on one of those when a "lorry" decided to blast through at 90 Km/hr.

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You are missing (many) important points.

The ones I depicted are only used in built up areas. Areas where 30MPH or less is allowed only.

There are far larger ones where higher speed approaching and leaving the RA are allowed, I believe not more than 50MPH....But someone in the UK will know far better.....

We also have more cameras watching everyone per capita than any other country in the world.

You drive fast, it will quickly get very expensive.

I am not saying no accidents, but a light is far more dangerous, it can fail, cars are as good as pointed at each other, they cross in front of each other and such accidents cause more damage and injuries....

Most RAs, have no electrics, the biggest possible failure would be a grass fire in a hot summer.....

You have to live there to understand.....someone else here posted that he paid a UK speeding fine.....

The only purpose of this is to slow down traffic?

Wouldn't a metal sign on a post with a slower stated MPH (KPH) limit have been a few bucks cheaper, and had the same result?? What am I missing here?

People who do not "read" road signs.

Fast drivers.

Young F1 pilots in training.

Bad drivers.

Idiots.

The list is endless.......

Well then, to the metal sign I would add a parked squad car and a box of donuts. That's the deluxe version. Maybe a camera. The only time I got a ticket in the UK was because of that %#^@&$ camera! The only warning I had was the sign that read CAMERA, then me saying Oh shite! as I drove past it, then the prezzie in the post a week later. I was thinking Stay Calm. Maybe it Didn't See You.

No such luck.

The sneakiest ones are the forward facing cameras, they've taken your picture before you see them. The most effective ones are the average speed cameras which calculate your speed between 2 fixed cameras which can be miles apart.