Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts

[DKsan]

Roundabouts have been for about the last fifteen years the fashionable trend among urban planners. Therefore they are dropped willy-nilly anywhere and everywhere whether they make sense or not.

That's more of a civil engineering/road design concern than an urban planning one.

We just need to include roundabout test in Driver License now... or is it already included?
I imagine many people would fail badly...ha

I support roundabouts, but 3-lane may be too crazy for KW people

Roundabouts are part of the driver training curriculum (both in class and the road test portion). I'm unsure as to whether its been incorporated into the licensing test itself. It probably wouldn't hurt, especially in Waterloo Region. 

I've taken the both lessons and the G2 test (because I let in expire the first time whoops) in Kitchener and Brampton.

You skim it essentially if you're learning it in the GTA. I was taking a driving lesson over here in Brampton recently and when I asked about roundabouts, my instructor looked at me like I had a second head. They're planning and have a built a few over here, but mostly on minor arterial/community collectors in the new urbanist suburbs (AKA on the outskirts).

Meanwhile, over here in KW, they're pretty aggressive about making people learn roundabouts. The issue is there isn't any really big ones near the driving centre, just a small one nearby. I only really practiced at the one at Margaret/Union, which is a bump.

I'm sure if you were taking your driving lessons in the south end of Kitchener, you'd probably practice on the big ones.