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An idiotic roundabout

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by Gay Lynne Killion, Hamilton

Let’s not be stupid. The thought of a roundabout on a highway with a 70 mph speed limit is NUTS. If you must spend $10 million on highway infrastructure in Ravalli County, and safety, how about rebuilding the  bridge at Tucker Crossing?

Remember Tucker Crossing, the road to nowhere? The people trying to build a roundabout don’t remember that bridge.

You can still put in a stoplight at Bell Crossing AND at Tucker Crossing. That would give you two more stoplights to slow down the 93 corridor and give us back a crossing at Tucker Crossing.

With the growth in the valley, we sure could use another river crossing. It would take a lot of pressure off the Eastside Highway, Corvallis and Woodside Cut-offs.

We love to vote on stuff in this valley. We are the people that want to live in the Bitterroot. Let we the people decide what’s best for our interests. We are already familiar with stoplights, we can handle a couple more. We could also use another river crossing.

Do right by the people.

 

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  1. John Schneeberger says

    Roundabouts have been proven to be safer and more efficient way of moving traffic than stoplights. This has been proven repeatedly. Partly this is due to the fact that people will be watching other cars instead of watching the stoplight, which often results in rear end collisions.

  2. Gomez says

    A roundabout on a highway is no more idiotic than a stoplight on a highway. In both cases, traffic will be slowed as they approach them.

    • Roger Mitchell says

      Absolutely true. I agree. Personally, I like roundabouts. They maintain smooth traffic flow and have been proven to work reliably wherever they have been installed.

      It can be stated that many people speed up when the traffic light turns yellow so as to get through the intersection before it turns red and they have to stop and wait for a moment or two. In fact, there are more accidents at intersections than anywhere else on the road and most of them have either a traffic light or a sign which (supposedly) controls the action of motorists who routinely ignore them.