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Safer roundabouts are replacing traffic signals


A little foot stomping about the safest form of at-grade intersection that everyone loves to hate.

At some point over the last several years, modern roundabouts eclipsed sex, religion, and politics as an issue guaranteed to rile up an audience. One of the roundabout’s virtues is short crossing distances for people walking combined with the slow vehicles at those conflict points. When it comes to taboo subject matter, I don’t care about your preferences in church aisles, voting booths, or bedrooms.

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