What do we think of this?
I personally dislike driving on roundabouts, but some stats (are they good stats?) show beneficial effects on traffic and safety.
Apparently the City of Carmel got a mayor who had a thing for roundabouts
What do we think of this?
I personally dislike driving on roundabouts, but some stats (are they good stats?) show beneficial effects on traffic and safety.
Apparently the City of Carmel got a mayor who had a thing for roundabouts
I grew up near Carmel. My family drove through Carmel a fair bit, and we always liked the roundabouts. They almost put one in at an intersection near where we lived, but some asshole on our street started a petition and got it killed. That roundabout would have greatly improved rush hour traffic.
Carmel is a very wealthy suburb of Indianapolis, and a lot of people in central Indiana make fun of them for the roundabouts. It's too bad that roundabouts have been associated with rich pretentious assholes, because roundabouts are good.
That's one thing that annoys me. Things like roundabouts, protected bike lanes, and street closures for cars are associated with gentrifiers and the wealthy because they're good urbanism and rich people want to live in nice places. The rich hog the good urbanism for themselves.