This is in response to letters about the use of roundabouts. Roundabouts are not practical in city This is in response to letters about the use of roundabouts. In low-flow traffic areas, they work pretty well. But, when you crank up the volume, look out. They become a tangled snarl of excitement that would make Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty stand on the brakes and look for pit road.
Circles become nuts.
They are a road rager's paradise. It works well. This will take traffic off the already overcrowded and extremely dangerous Mathews Bridge. Also, it will help effect economic balance. It will tie the ports together in a more economic balance and remove traffic from Heckscher Drive and the small single-lane bridges that are a fisherman's paradise.