"We've got roundabouts, mini-roundabouts, crossings, pedestrians, the ferry's just there, there's the tube's nearby, and the Air Line cable car," says Dorling.
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ABDULLAH GEELAHFellow of the WinstonChurchill Memorial TrustLondon The symbolism of the gilets jaunes protesting on French traffic roundabouts is deeper than you think ("To the roundabouts", December 22nd).
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Milton Keynes is perhaps best known for its 1,300 roundabouts, which is more than any other town in the UK. The website Roundabouts of Britain has called Milton Keynes "roundabout Mecca."
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Greeks had invented roundabouts, Oedipus would have never collided with Laius
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The old congested roundabouts are gone, replaced by smooth elevated interchanges.
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President Emmanuel Macron spoke of the "distress on so many roundabouts".
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In a statement titled "No to sex on roundabouts", Terje Moe Gustavsen, a former minister of transport who now runs the Public Roads Administration, said: "Everyone understands that being in and around roundabouts is a traffic hazard," .
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Protesters on the roundabouts, declared Ms Le Pen, are "often our voters".
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"Already testing traffic lights, stop signs & roundabouts in development software," he added.
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Some maintained protests on highway slip-roads, tolls and roundabouts on Sunday.
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His picture is on billboards in roundabouts and on windows of bakeries.
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Lastly, Carmel now has 28503 roundabouts instead of traffic signals at intersections.
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Harlow is characterized by seemingly endless roundabouts and tired-looking low-rise buildings.
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Today there are more roundabouts in France than there are cafés or boulangeries.
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Taxis knotted up at roundabouts decorated with fountains and newly installed solar panels.
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Roundabouts played a central role in the Yellow Vests protests, when demonstrators occupied hundreds of the nation's roundabouts, blocking traffic as a way to demonstrate against a despised fuel tax increase in particular and a growing sense of inequality in general.
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Another is the opportunity roundabouts afford to indulge the national obsession with municipal gardening.
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In the early mornings, migrants gather at roundabouts to seek day-labor on farms.
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I traverse winding roundabouts and Redditch ringroad-esque tricky terrain, eventually reaching a retail park.
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Roundabouts in France are fast, competitive, lawless and fun — if you have a death wish.
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The centre is a concrete tangle of highways and roundabouts encircling windswept, early-28s pedestrian plazas.
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So it's swings and roundabouts — probably queasy ones — for VR fans eager to get early adopting.
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Which means losing the simplicity of the earlier version of the app… So swings and roundabouts there.
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Most of the gilets jaunes, who have been manning roundabouts and road junctions across France, are peaceful.
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Most of the roundabouts they took over were not the ronds-points you mentioned but were giratoires.
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Those unable to make it home before sunset are shepherded to roundabouts to wait until day breaks.
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Trees are also cut at roundabouts and along certain roads to increase visibility for the National Guard.
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Most Americans call circular traffic patterns "roundabouts" or "traffic circles," but some Northeasterners prefer the word "rotaries."
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So for now, many roundabouts are off limits, to the protesters' disappointment, if not their complete discouragement.
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Roads and roundabouts are dotted with signs commemorating fallen fighters, some of them billboards bearing dozens of faces.
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Demonstrators were unimpressed with the government's overtures, continuing their blockade of traffic roundabouts nationwide and vowing to fight on.
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Yet last week he embarked on a national tour of the roundabouts, a trip few have dared to attempt.
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They're known as traffic circles or roundabouts in some places, but I called them "widowmaker wheels" in my head.
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"Roundabouts have become the focal point that symbolizes, to the point of caricature, everything else's flaws," Mr. Alonzo said.
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The demonstrations were largely rural or at a small-town level with demonstrators blocking roads, motorways, roundabouts and fuel depots.
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In America, for instance, which has a mere 4,800 roundabouts, a quarter of all road deaths take place at intersections.
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These images truly are the swings and the roundabouts that Des'ree documented in the greatest smash hit of her time.
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Trucks full of police and soldiers were positioned at crossroads and roundabouts across the capital from early morning on Saturday.
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It's cool that the car is fueled by hydrogen, even cooler that this prototype drives itself, mastering roundabouts like a human.
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Amid today's angry, ruthless populism, however, the very concept of an elite is denounced on the streets and roundabouts of France.
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However, the record is also intended to raise awareness of Louis VIII cognac's lengthy ageing process, so swings and fucking roundabouts.
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So it's a case of digital dating swings and roundabouts when it comes to the benefits/drawbacks of Tinder et al.
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Zygadło negotiated the traffic with difficulty, at one point stopping smack in the middle of one of Warsaw's (admittedly confusing) roundabouts.
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"The issue on Trump is what you win on the U.S. swings, you may lose on the international roundabouts," he said.
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Some 280,000 yellow vests took part in a first day of protest on November 17th, blocking roundabouts and motorway toll booths nationwide.
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Traffic lights are added and removed, stop-and-go intersections turn into roundabouts, a typically quiet street turns into a construction zone.
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Life in a galaxy far, far away, just like life here on Earth, is all about these swings and roundabouts, it seems.
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Place de la Nation is among the roundabouts getting makeoversWhen you think of Paris, you probably think of narrow, tree-lined streets.
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Equally, I'm not overly keen on standing in a pub with a 40-year-old man in a snapback, so swings, roundabouts.
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I relaxed slightly when I was back in Inverness, where my only foes were the baffling roundabouts, with their unique Scottish etiquette.
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The insets show the location of the two roundabouts, which Kipchoge will use to turn around at each end of the circuit.
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In Merced, it tests cars on roadways meant to simulate complicated real-world conditions, like roundabouts or driveways in a suburban development.
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In Abbeville last year, some Yellow Vest protesters first gathered at one of the town's biggest roundabouts, near a major shopping mall.
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Most residents have accepted the narrowing of the roads and roundabouts, the blocking of the views of iconic buildings, as facts of life.
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Still in the proposal stage, his plan consists of street-front shops and restaurants and rerouted, landscaped roads with roundabouts to alleviate traffic.
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Journeys that usually involve hours stuck at gridlocked roundabouts, with police officers facing down honking matatu buses, now take a snappy half-hour.
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Bodyguards nowhere to be seen, Assad takes off from the center of Damascus driving through roundabouts, past taxi cabs and passersby, seemingly unnoticed.
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TO REACH Blackwater you take the Yarmouth Road out of Norwich, passing housing estates, a shimmering glass business park and a tangle of roundabouts.
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You can watch the full video below: Don't fret, student of the automobile — the sniggering will subside and the roundabouts become less intimidating, eventually.
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Several people have died in roadside accidents at yellow vest roadblocks in recent weeks, mostly at the many roundabouts blocked by groups of demonstrators.
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With their blazing fires, makeshift camps and festive tinsel, the occupied roundabouts have become places of muscular resistance and hubs of cheerful, defiant solidarity.
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Matt Maley, equity strategist at Miller Tabak, sees two Dow stocks to buy and one he would avoid in this market's swings and roundabouts.
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There were no signs of conflict in the town itself, where life appeared to continue as normal with uniformed rebel police at the main roundabouts.
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Most of the nine deaths have occurred as a result of road accidents, since protesters have been blocking off roundabouts and damaging motorway toll booths.
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Three-wheeled rickshaws whirl out of the roundabouts straight at you, packs of stray dogs dash into the road, huge buses lurch up from behind.
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There are 15 miles of roads within the community for Voyage's self-driving cars to learn how to interact with pedestrians, animals, roundabouts, and golf carts.
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Afterwards we leave the museum and drive around Reykjavik to get a feel for the city (and for S to practice his stick driving and roundabouts).
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The 'yellow vests' protesters - named after the fluorescent jackets French motorists must have in their cars - have blocked roads and roundabouts across France since mid-November.
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At al-Rowaishan, one of the busiest roundabouts in central Sana, people reduced to begging move briskly from vehicle to vehicle during traffic jams, seeking help.
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The "yellow vests" protesters - named after the fluorescent jackets French motorists must have in their cars - have blocked roads and roundabouts across France since mid-November.
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On some of France's traffic roundabouts, where the Yellow Vests held sway for much of November and December, mock guillotines were erected with Mr. Macron's effigy.
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"Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water," Mr. Alonzo said, arguing that roundabouts "have their relevance, but it all depends where and how."
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Whatever anyone thinks of roundabouts as symbols of an ailing France, the residents of Abbeville concede that, in practical terms, they make life on the road easier.
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Even during the summer, with seaside-bound vacationers from around the region using the city's streets and bridges over the Somme River, the roundabouts keep cars moving.
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These have design features that are consistent with the speed appropriate for the location: Curves, medians, bike lanes, and roundabouts nudge the driver toward a given speed.
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The strength of public support seems to stem from sympathy for those manning the roundabouts, struggling to make ends meet, and feeling that the president does not care.
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Their success and almost universal adoption means that most French roundabouts nowadays with a few exceptions, such as l'Etoile and Bastille in Paris, are giratoires, not ronds-points.
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The 'yellow vest' movement started in mid-November with protests at junctions and roundabouts against fuel tax increases, but quickly became a wider mobilization against Macron's economic policies.
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But on a macro level, it was the theory and strategy behind the swings and roundabouts that were his most lasting contributions to the evolving narrative of dress.
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A chase ensued involving speeds of up to 100 mph, driving on the wrong side of the road, running red lights, and going the wrong way on roundabouts.
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At Cormeille-en-Parisis, in the Paris suburbs, two brand-new roundabouts on near-empty roads are already neatly planted with tulips, spring blooms and whispery architectural grasses.
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Now black-uniformed police officers with assault rifles are stationed under big umbrellas at resort roundabouts and in armored trucks on the French-colonial boulevards of the capital.
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They've rebuilt residential intersections as roundabouts and allowed parking on both sides of the street side to cut the useable driving space down from 36 feet to 12 feet.
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Once you're off the major highways, Italian roads are a spider web connected by roundabouts, bristling with signs pointing to the nearest tiny villages but lacking any route numbers.
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There were no other signs of conflict and life appeared to continue as normal, with traffic on the muddy, potholed roads and uniformed rebel police at the main roundabouts.
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This is "in-between France", in the words of Raymond Depardon, a photographer whose stills depict derelict high streets and empty roundabouts—the very places now occupied by gilets jaunes.
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It has roundabouts, working stop lights, streets lined with parked cars, shipping containers posing as parked cars (they're cheaper), and crouching "people" (played by mannequins) on the shoulder, changing tires.
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If the gilets jaunes elsewhere have mostly left the roundabouts, or been forcibly moved from them, pockets such as this corner of southern France and nearby Avignon are holding out.
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I mean, I would see him just on roundabouts, if I was promoting My Life on the D-List or one of the specials and he'd be doing The Apprentice.
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Both the far left and the far right have been largely unwelcome in what remains of the dwindling Yellow Vest outposts — the government is clearing them out — on the roundabouts.
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"Roundabouts, uneven sidewalks, and construction are all environmental features blind individuals will need to know how to deal with because they are present in communities anywhere you go," explains Roane.
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Much like the shops and post offices of the past — where people traded stories about their miseries and the microeconomics of their daily lives, the roundabouts provided a physical meeting place.
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Their leaders have made supportive noises, notably Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right party formerly known as the National Front, but have stayed off the roundabouts for the most part.
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There is no denying, Mr. Alonzo said, that the spread of roundabouts has given France's roadways an air of visual uniformity, creating traffic features that look similar no matter where you are.
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He'll span the out-and-back loop just over four times with the help of two roundabouts: a large one at the straightaway's northwestern terminus and a smaller one at the southeastern terminus.
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This time, she has criss-crossed France to visit the sort of small towns and villages—Chassors, Rocquigny, Villeblevin—where the gilets jaunes occupied roundabouts, jobs are scarce and anti-establishment feeling runs deep.
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"I'd rather have the police force doing their real job, chasing criminals and combating the terrorism threat, instead of securing roundabouts where a few thousand people keep a lot of police busy," he said.
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As a result of this uncertainty, international investors will opt for a portfolio of government bonds from different countries, expecting that what they lose on the currency swings they will gain on the roundabouts.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's high school graduates should refrain from running naked across bridges and having sex on roundabouts lest they give drivers "too much of a surprise", the national transport regulator said on Wednesday.
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The car will be able to drive itself to your destination, wherever it is, determining the optimal route and handling everything from stop signs and traffic lights to roundabouts and streets without lane markings.
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PARIS — One protest movement started a year ago in France and drew hundreds of thousands at its peak to roundabouts across the country in angry "Yellow Vest" demonstrations against planned increases in gas taxes.
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Last week marked the thirty-second consecutive Saturday that the gilets jaunes have occupied roundabouts and blocked roads and clashed with police all over France, answering Macron's project of individual mobility with collective obstruction.
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That was down from the 12,500 nationwide last Saturday, and a far cry from the close to 300,000 that first occupied roundabouts and blocked roads in what began as an outcry against fuel tax hikes.
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The "yellow vests" - named after the fluorescent jackets French motorists must have in their cars - have blocked roads and roundabouts across France since mid-November, sometimes occupying highway tolls and setting a number on fire.
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To protest, he and the other protesters wait at night in the middle of the roundabouts, in the rain and cold and mud under makeshift tarpaulin shelters and tents in the darkness of early morning.
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London, for example, has carved out dedicated "slow zones" with raised sidewalks, built mini-roundabouts, and extended curbs, transforming the driving and walking experience for city dwellers, and leading to a dip in traffic deaths.
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The "yellow vests" — named after the fluorescent jackets French motorists must have in their cars — have blocked roads and roundabouts since the middle of November, sometimes occupying highway toll booths and setting a number on fire.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Guided by cameras and radars, and negotiating traffic and roundabouts, a self-driving Nissan car took to the streets of London on Monday for the Japanese company's first European tests of an autonomous vehicle.
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For instance, for the last few years, New Zealand's economy, generally subject to the swings and roundabouts of commodity prices and tourist numbers, has been growing consistently, driven almost exclusively by immigration and its flow-on effects.
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The debate over this possibility is certain to get the market's attention, as are the swings and roundabouts connected with the story, such as the apparent soft-pedalling of the possible murder by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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America's Federal Highway Administration, which helpfully supplies a "roundabouts outreach and education toolbox" to overcome public distrust, says that they reduce deaths or serious injuries by around 80%, compared with stop signs or traffic lights (see chart).
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Currency swings and roundabouts The post-Brexit value of sterling has caused some of the most immediate knocks on the UK startups we spoke to, with founders generally having to be more "currency aware", as one put it.
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On Thursday, it was Mr. Macron who united their popular anger once again, exactly as he did a year ago when members of the protest movement known as the Yellow Vests guillotined him in effigy on the country's roundabouts.
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This is the potent mix that helped to mobilise the gilets jaunes (yellow jackets) protesters, who set up camps on the country's road junctions and roundabouts a year ago, initially to protest about a green tax on motor fuel.
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"When we started on November 17, everyone thought it would last a week, no one imagined then that a month after it would continue," he said, "today, the people are ready to pass Christmas on the roundabouts, to continue the movement."
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Hallam says the plan is to gather about 10,000 people in central London alone to create a "Glastonbury-esque" atmosphere, and permanently occupy several roundabouts day after day, until the government creates a response in a substantive way to XR's demands.
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Instead, what follows is an intensive and overwrought heap of roundabouts trying to connect Hellboy, a paranormal investigator of demon descent, to Nimue and King Arthur while taking every single detour, side quest, and expositional origin story montage possible along the way.
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We looked at relations between Germany and Russia (Wenn die beste Freundin), looked in on seismologists around the world Waiting for the big one, and the extent to which the French, who invented them, are coming back round to roundabouts (Route nationale 7).
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"The roundabouts must be freed, and the security of all must once again become the rule," he said on Twitter on Saturday evening, adding that an eighth person had died on the fringes of the demonstrations since the beginning of the movement.
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Cruise's cars will have to handle all of San Francisco, which effectively means they have to be able to do anything a human can—unprotected left turns, four-way stops, roundabouts, the crazy steep streets that made the Bullitt car chase so fun.
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Yet in Les Andelys, a collection of hamlets in Normandy, as in many other parts of France, the Yellow Vests have now been barred from the roundabouts, denied, quite literally, the common ground to coalesce and talk through what comes next for them.
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Now, I only know two things about the roadways of the United Kingdom: people drive on the opposite side of the road, and there are large, multi-lane circles called roundabouts, which are used to (as far as I can tell) spice up commutes.
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In November of last year, the gilets jaunes or Yellow Vests movement spontaneously erupted throughout the country, with hundreds of thousands of men and women, many of them hailing from the rural provinces, blocking the roads and roundabouts leading into nearly every town in France.
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The government has been unable to stop them from tearing down the ubiquitous propaganda billboards and some of the garish, tin-metal "trees of life" erected on hundreds of streets and roundabouts by the first lady as symbols of her government's supposedly divine mandate.
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"The France of roundabouts" has even become the shorthand way to describe the small cities and towns in peripheral France, where many feel left behind, and where the Yellow Vest protests spontaneously started before migrating to Paris in what became months of often violent protests.
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But many of those who have been protesting on roundabouts in rural parts of France for the past four weeks are as angry about what they feel to be the president's lack of respect for them as they are about their own difficulties making ends meet.
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For now, the only way to glean hints of a potential direction for the Yellow Vests and who might capitalize on the movement is by watching the notably few political figures who have not been chased from France's traffic roundabouts, the emblematic redoubts of the movement.
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Kipchoge, an eight-time major marathon winner and three-time Olympic medalist, pounded his chest twice as he crossed the finish line in Vienna's leafy Prater Park, where the majority of the run had unfolded on a long straightaway of recently paved road, with roundabouts on either end.
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"When you run in a turn you use slightly more energy, but the roundabouts in Vienna are big-radius turns, and Kipchoge will only have to run them nine times over the entire race," says Wouter Hoogkamer, coauthor on a recently published preprint analysis of the Prater course.
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"The ... project allowed us to develop an autonomous vehicle that can tackle challenges encountered on UK roads that are unique to this part of the world, such as complex roundabouts and high-speed country lanes with no road markings, white lines or kerbs," said Nissan Technical Centre Project Manager Bob Bateman.
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While somewhere car horns are blaring as cabbies inch round roundabouts, it is quiet now as the 24-year-old reminisces about the stress of his daily commute three years ago—the worry that traffic would make him late to work, and what his boss would say when he arrived.
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But the reader allows herself to be guided by him anyway, because what is being revealed is not a physical terrain so much as the twisty, dead-endy pathways of the author's own subconscious, and it is a glorious maze to be in, sparky and colorful and punctuated with unexpected roundabouts.
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" But then all would slide into a fog of incomprehensibility and I would keep nodding furiously to try to persuade the person that I could follow what was being said: "Then you toggle over that spur of the thruway that goes under the overpass before the six roundabouts of the gargle.
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WHEN EMMANUEL MACRON launches his promised "great national debate" on January 15th, he hopes to show a willingness to listen to the popular rage behind the gilets jaunes (yellow jacket) protesters who have been occupying roundabouts and motorway toll booths in anger initially at fuel tax rises, but now with a much longer list of grievances.
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English Channel Rouen Seine Les Andelys Paris Normandy France Area of detail France 50 miles By The New York Times "I met people at the roundabouts, neighbors who live in the same building as me and that I had not ever met before," said Christelle Bréhélin, 46, a hairdresser who used to have a small salon in the village, but had to give it up because of the costs of running a small business.
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Enhanced lane divisions to prevent head-on collisions Traffic-calming devices like roundabouts Rumble strips to keep drivers in their lanes Lower speed limits and alerts when those limits are exceeded Structures to minimize lethality of crashes inside the vehicle (strengthened roof and chassis) and outside (safer designs for guardrails) The bottom line: A roadway designed to accommodate human error, whether the human is behind a steering wheel or behind a computer, could better protect motorists, and the AVs that may soon populate it.
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