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• Rick Moen commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  JBS @554: That's not a real round-about, it's got stop signs at every entry point. Sad, isn't it? I'm still doing the good work of being an ambassador for the idea of proper roundabouts, and the real obstacle is basically an attitudinal one, not wishing to commit to the concept....
• Rick Moen commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  FWIW, the second listing of 'Vallejo' was intended to be 'Benicia', which indeed is, and certainly was in the 1840s, an even more deadly-dull wide spot in the road than Vallejo is/was. The State Capital building in Benicia is quite beautiful, albeit improbably tiny....
• D. Mark Key commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  For what it's worth, I hate roundabouts, and I'm actually pretty good at driving through them....
• P J Evans commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  I remember reading about the San Jose era - it was something like the Saloon Capital. (There's a historical park with buildings, or rebuilt versions, from the period. Never bothered to go there, though I did visit the zoo once.) People forget that the state capital moved around a lot in the first decade....
• Rick Moen commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  P J Evans @564: I remember reading about the San Jose era - it was something like the Saloon Capital. So it was. It helps in interpreting California's post-Mexican history to realise that heroic imbibing was historically about as important to state legislators as it is to BBC announcers. On a slightly related note, I like to regale visitors to my somewhat sleepy bedroom-community-and-rural-areas county (San Mateo Co.), occupying all of San Francisco Peninsula south of the S.F. city limits, about the county's origin: Originally, it was the southern 80%+ of San Francisco County. When the city fathers set out...