BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
Amen. The "cruft" argument just makes
Wikipedia's coverage more biased
than it already is. A traffic circle that thousands of people travel
through everyday is cruft, while some strange insect that only < 100
persons know about is notable. It's elitism and it is building an
encyclopedia that noone wants to read. I find traffic circles
interesting. I always thought that traffic circles were superior to
traffic lights because they allow a larger throughput of traffic than
an ordinary crossing can. But it seems like those traffic circles in
the articles were eliminated. Why were they eliminated? Because of
commercial development forced it because the area had a too high land
value? Crossings are generally more space efficient than circles. Many
traffic circles have some kind of artwork or other decoration on the
island in the middle? Did any of these traffic circles have it?
I know I should be adding this to the articles (though it's somewhat
unsourced and POV), but in general the traffic load got too high for the
circles, and with the way New Jersey drivers drive a traffic light was
safer. No land was saved because [[jughandle]]s were added.