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HAMILTON COUNTY – Carmel love affair with roundabouts is attracting national interest. An article in the Sept. 15 issue of Time magazine points to Carmel as the leader in the growing traffic-management trend.
Time notes that, since 2001, Carmel has built 50 roundabouts, which take the place of intersections with stoplights. As a result, the magazine reports, Carmel has enjoyed a 78-percent drop in vehicle accidents involving injuries.
“As our population densities become more like Europe’s, roundabouts will become more popular,” Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard told Time.
The publication said about 1,000
roundabouts have been built in 25 U.S. states. The magazine calls them “more aesthetically pleasing” than stoplight intersections and points out they cost less to construct. But it notes that Americans still have trouble navigating them.
“Folks, cars entering a roundabout yield to those already in it,” wrote Time reporter Tim Padgett.
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