Noblesville reader explains advantages of roundabouts

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Dear Editor:

If you drive in any metropolitan area and its suburbs, you will become aware of the obvious advantages of roundabouts. You will become aware of snarled traffic at every stop light and every four-way stop.

As folks become accustomed to roundabouts, as in our northern suburbs, you become aware of the easier flow of traffic. You won’t see a need to sit at each lift for two or three changes of the signal or take your turn as the 10th or 12th car at a four-way stop.

Accidents in a roundabout cause less damage and fewer injuries.

Steve Wohlford
Noblesville

P.S. We spend our winters in the god-forsaken traffic of metropolitan Tampa, Fla.