Roundabout Mystery Cache
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The listed coordinates will take you to the Roundabout in Russellville. A modern enigma at a seemingly unimportant intersection. Solve the puzzle to find the final cache coordinates. UPDATED 10-2-12 THE CACHE HAS BEEN RELOCATED NEAR GZ. SEE HINT IF NEEDED.
A roundabout, usually called a traffic circle or rotary in North America, is a type of circular intersection in which traffic must travel in one direction around a central island. In official and engineering use, the originally British term roundabout is now often used in North America too but not in general usage, as shown in major US dictionaries. These junctions are sometimes called modern roundabouts (especially in countries that traditionally used the term roundabout) in order to emphasize the distinction from older circular junction types, which had or have different design characteristics and rules of operation. Such older designs are called simply roundabouts in UK English or traffic circles or rotaries in official US usage, and they are typically larger, operate at higher speeds, and often give priority to entering traffic. At modern roundabouts, signs usually direct traffic entering the circle to slow down and give the right of way to drivers already in the circle. If there is no yield sign, roundabout traffic in most countries is usually regulated according to each country's normal right-of-way rules without any automatic right of way for drivers in the circle. In countries where people drive on the right, the traffic flow around the central island of a roundabout is anticlockwise (counterclockwise). In countries where people drive on the left, the traffic flow is clockwise. Statistically, roundabouts are safer for drivers and pedestrians than both traffic circles and traditional intersections. Because low speeds are required for traffic entering roundabouts they are not designed for high-speed motorways (expressways). When such roads are redesigned to take advantage of roundabout principles, steps are taken to reduce the speed of traffic, such as adding additional curves on the approaches. Modern roundabouts are particularly common in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Morocco, Australia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Denmark, and France. Half of the world's roundabouts are in France (over 30,000 as of 2008). The first modern roundabout in the United States was constructed in Summerlin, Nevada in 1990, and roundabouts have since become increasingly common in North America.
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