Roundabouts

ok - so I am a non technical person and I see alot of smart people belong to this site. So here is my question....

 A developer wants to put a roundabout in the intersection near my house - truth be told it is on my corner. This is a rural township  - should I be concerned?  I know that they are all around the UK and  Europe, but roundabouts   are somewhat of an anomaly in rural Pennsyvania - what do you experts think?

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  • You mean a circle? :)   They used to be all over the place in jersey where I grew up.   They've slowly started to be replaced with intersections that have smart traffic lights.  In a case where traffic started to get bad in one area they put traffic lights on the entrances to the circle.  It was a little crazy.  

    From what's I've seen in PA people don't know how to merge or yield so a circle could be a real problem ;) 



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  • You mean a circle? :)   They used to be all over the place in jersey where I grew up.   They've slowly started to be replaced with intersections that have smart traffic lights.  In a case where traffic started to get bad in one area they put traffic lights on the entrances to the circle.  It was a little crazy.  

    From what's I've seen in PA people don't know how to merge or yield so a circle could be a real problem ;) 



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