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Originally Posted by OFD232
"...but to come to my favorite longtime family escape cottage in Meredith and find a "roundabout" under construction, who came up with the idea of a "roundabout" here..."
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There may still be a bumper sticker available that reads "Drive with Courtesy: it's the New Hampshire Way".
What
were they thinking?
Not just in rural areas, rotaries (
roundabouts in England) are being added in cities as a "traffic-taming device".
As a passenger visiting a city where a slightly elevated (to curb height) 20' rotary had been recently added, I watched as the car ahead drove directly through the middle of it!
(Coral Gables, FL).
In the same city, officials installed a pair of commemorative concrete statues in the middle their oldest rotary which, at 80' in diameter and three feet tall, was a very intimidating "traffic-taming device".
Yup, somebody took out those statues with their truck one night.