Unabomber road rules


Unabomber road rules

Originally published in issue 3 of Tollroads Newsletter, which came out in May 1996.

Page:5

Subjects:roundabouts ITE

Agencies:ITE

Locations:CO

They’ve got some wild ideas in those mountain states, what with the Unabomber, Ruby Ridge and the Freemen. Now they’ve introduced British/Australian style roundabouts, and judging by the photo of the new pair of roundabouts straddling I-70 at Vail, Colorado on the cover of the April issue of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Journal, the crazy Coloradan mountain people have adopted the British drive-on-the-left rule to boot. Heck, even the rotten Canadians, despite their bootlicking of George III, even they drive on the right side of the road!...Wait, it couldn’t be that such an august professional body as the ITE would screw up the picture on their front cover...