Should the default intersection for small roads be roundabouts?

[AusQB]

When you create an intersection with small two-way roads, they create a weird junction where all roads give way to each other. In this case in reality you would just put down a roundabout, but currently the smallest roundabouts you can create are 8x8. Realistically a small road roundabout shouldn't be more than one block extra on either side, so 4x4, and there should only be enough room in the middle for one or two trees. In fact you might be able to do it without using any extra blocks, just cut away a little bit at the corners and put down an island.

As a side note, it would be nice to be able to specify which roads have stop signs and which have free flow.

 

[IVIaarten]

for really efficient roundabouts (both small and large), build them using highway ramps. This makes sure the traffic on the roundabout has right of way, and will increase the flow drastically.

 

[Reichl22]

+1 for automatic small roundabouts, great idea!

 

[Bautz]

Yes, some "intersection designer" with some Options would be good.
- Which lane goes which direction
- continuous lines (where line-changes are forbidden, would help solving some ugly line changes the Cims decide on a human would never try).
- Decision on traffic lights or not
- Decision which road has to stop
- Also a General Option "Right before Left" instead of the American "who Comes first, drives first". European is much more fast (i have to admit, the American is more fair).

 

[Periy]

Yes, some "intersection designer" with some Options would be good.
- Which lane goes which direction
- continuous lines (where line-changes are forbidden, would help solving some ugly line changes the Cims decide on a human would never try).
- Decision on traffic lights or not
- Decision which road has to stop
- Also a General Option "Right before Left" instead of the American "who Comes first, drives first". European is much more fast (i have to admit, the American is more fair).

All of the above please!

 

[RogerWilco]

I want to go from really small residential ones:

To medium size:

To really big:

 

[TimFisher]

Absolutely not. No.

Roundabouts are FOTM. I haven't used a single one yet and my traffic flow is beautiful.

Please no more roundabouts. I'm about to just puke.

 

[Kagemusha]

While Roundabouts are common in some countries (France or GB for example) they are almost non existent in other countries (for example germany) so nope, I don´t think this would be a good idea

 

[AusQB]

Absolutely not. No.

Roundabouts are FOTM. I haven't used a single one yet and my traffic flow is beautiful.

Please no more roundabouts. I'm about to just puke.

You realize I'm just talking about small roundabouts right, not those massive European ones? These ones wouldn't take up any more space than a normal intersection, I would think.

Maybe it wouldn't be best if all the intersections were roundabouts, that's not realistic. But I would like to be able to use an upgrade tool specifically on an intersection to change it to a roundabout.