[WikiEN-l] Crap vfd nominations

Fri Sep 30 18:47:37 UTC 2005

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.