Yes--in Towson, Maryland, a densely urbanized edge city just north of Baltimore, a complicated multi-road double intersection that used to have horrendous backups in all directions due to the red lights was replaced during the 1990s with a weird oval-shaped rotary, and while it took locals a bit of time to get used to it, it has drastically cut down on the backups there. It's called the Towson Roundabout and is one of three toundabouts developed in Maryland as part of a big project in the '90s. You can look at the picture and imagine how screwed-up the intersections there used to be --
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Date: 2006-01-22 10:43 pm (UTC)