"Someone told me if you drive around a round-about fast enough, you can time travel; but I'm not buying it."

I tried it but going counter clockwise put me back in time. I'm now driving a Model T and I can't go fast enough to get my Corvette back...HELP!

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Someone told me if you drive around a round-about fast enough, you can time travel; but I'm not buying it.

Metro...Hey!! Don't talk about Janesville like that!!

What a complete waste of prime farmland......

DiGriz... HATS OFF!! That has GOT to be the BEST POST OF THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stop laughing!!

I hated round abouts when I was a truck driver and hate them driving a car. They are no faster than regular intersection if the lights are timed like the way they should be. Show me a traffic engineer and I will show you someone who has no common sence.

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I CAN'T GET LEFT!!!!

My Lord, you all need to take a chill pill and an exlax! So the road changed, live with it!

Plow drivers also don't like anything that slows them down, like stop signs or mailboxes. What else is new.

Ask a county plow truck driver what they think of them.

BTW, 30 years accident free.

Excuse me, but he has 30 years of driving experience. He just doesn't like them, and by listening to the radio, many other drivers don't like them either. Not everyone thinks they are "it on a stick".

I used th I-43/Moorland roundabouts this past weekend with no problems. Went to Target first north of 43, then Texas Roadhouse south of 43 and it was just like any other roundabout, wait until its clear to the left then proceed...nothing difficult about it.

SwissChick, the center island is designed as a space for semis to extend or drive over. I'm sorry your ex wasn't trained in how to navigate one.
http://www.appleton.org/departments/publ...

I used to ride with an ex-boyfriend who drove truck. Let me tell you that they are not meant for a 60' trailer and sleeper tractor. When you need to take a left turn, you end up trying to veer around the darn thing 3/4 of the way and through 3 streets (or hwys.) to finally get to your turn. They are cut too short for semis. Every time we went through one, I'd hang on to my OMG strap and pray we wouldn't hit an idiot.

Oh wait, he said "stupid", not dumb. Same difference...

BTW~I happen to NOT like roundabouts based on my experience in Clearwater, FL. I assure you I am "not too dumb to use them."

I saw this on Monday. I must be working too may hours because I did not have any clue that it was even being built! LOL

That diagram isn't correct. It says "current roundabout" at Parkview and High St. There is no roundabout there unless it popped up since 5:00 yesterday.

You all hate roundabouts because you're too stupid to use them!

I absolutely HATE roundabouts based solely on my experiences with the I-43/Moorland one. It's just nuts!

Misterlippy:
Since when is "liberalism" political?
You are an embarrassment.

"Of the 44 reportable and nonreportable accidents at Rock Ridge/Moorland in a 15-month period from the end of 2007 through January 2009, only three were injury accidents, he said. That is far lower than the seven out of 13 accidents that were injury accidents at the Rock Ridge and Moorland intersection with traffic lights, Rieder said. Those 13 accidents happened over a period of seven years." 44 accidents in 15 months vs. 13 in 7 years doesn't sound safer to me regardless of the number of "injury accidents" At that rate there would 246 accidents at the roundabout in a 7 year period vs 13.

Well, most of yah have said it as most people feel about it; may I add, "Follow the Yellow Brick Road."

" talk about sign pollution -- there are dozens of signs at each of these monstrosities."

Signs are pollution now? You are an idiott. There are also no idling cars wasting fuel, or traffic signals using electricity.

Hannah - excellent!

The naysayers should really calm down and broaden their horizons a bit. Roundabouts are being adopted because they've been proven to be safer; if you can relate safety measures to politics it's time to line your hat with aluminum foil. A careful reading of the article notes that this is just a small first step in a larger road project; there is no re-tearing of the current additions just continual piecing together of more, yet to be finished parts.

And Booch11 is completely misreading the Moorland report; the quote from the actual report and full link:

"Of the 44 reportable and nonreportable accidents at Rock Ridge/Moorland in a 15-month period from the end of 2007 through January 2009, only three were injury accidents, he said. That is far lower than the seven out of 13 accidents that were injury accidents at the Rock Ridge and Moorland intersection with traffic lights, Rieder said. Those 13 accidents happened over a period of seven years.

"That's quite a reduction in injury accidents," he said."

http://www.newberlinnow.com/news/5660706...

It's a brave new world people. Chill out.

ROUNDABOUTS ARE A LIBERAL PLOT TO CREATE SOCIALISM!!!!

I, for one, welcome our Roundabout overlords.

Ok! I took regular 59 on the way to school this morn (whitewater to jvl) and then had to take the new road going home.. wasnt impressed.. after the 2nd roundabout and i saw the 3rd one coming i was like WTH? !!! Speedlimit is 30-35 on the road.. it actualy costed me a minute i think .. didnt save me anytime at all! its rediculous! we have 1 roundabout in whitewater where there was a perfectly good street before and while we're all handling it ok for the past few years we all do think its dumb! Semi's SQEEZE thru it, but its in town.. totally stupid when they're on HIGHWAYS! Seriously! How Busy is County M that it needed a roundabout instead of an intersection.. ?? STUPID

Mr. Miyagi: "Roundabout in, right-hand turn only. Roundabout out, left-hand turn okay. In, out. Breathe in through nose, out the mouth. In, out. Don't forget to breathe!"

These roundabouts will be like the malls they built on Main Streets years ago and now are taking out at great expense--or like virtually all of Janesville's silly one-way streets--a fad, and lousy urban planning to boot. And $7.7 million for a few mile bypass of Milton just because they felt the Milton House was such an historical artifact?! Come on. These guys have way too much of my money to spend on nothing. Why, they must think they are the Janesville city council or something!

"Don't forget to breath!"

Will there be a passing lane in the roundabout for Illinois drivers?

Lost_city - by turning right you're going counter clockwise...

Yes, I said fragile.

Three round-a-bouts within a quarter mile piece of road. What's wrong with this picture?
And by the way, last I looked Hiway 59 is CLOSED to traffic coming out of Milton heading east contrary to the story.

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garyprimer- LOL

mr. lippy, the secretary of the wisconsin dept of transportation is Frank Busalacchi.
Secretary Busalacchi is an avowed liberal. The plan to convert intersections to roundabouts was and is his plan.
When our fair Governor leaves office these dopey plans to make our roads more like europe will go with him.
and ten years from now, after crash rates have continued to rise, we'll rebuild them into regular intersections.
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some data,
at the moorland road exit off interstate 43 in waukesha, in the 8 years prior to the construction of the costly roundabout, there had been 13 accidents. less than 2 a year.
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in the two years since it became a roundabout, 49. nearly 25 a year.
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safer my a**!

In Australia they go clockwise.

"Vehicles flow through roundabouts in a counterclockwise motion and don't make left turns." Can someone explain how you go counterclockwise without turning left?

booch - liberalism run amuck? Since when was this a political issue? Please...you're embarrassing yourself.

roundabouts have been proven to be the cause of more accidents. less deadly -- but nearly 7 times more.
plus, the cost is enormous.
the intersection is already intact.
so, you have to tear it up and re-engineer the darn thing.
utter nonsense.
liberalism run amuck.
plus, talk about sign pollution -- there are dozens of signs at each of these monstrosities.

Roundabouts are a great addition to our roads and streets - they free up congestion and are quite easy to use - unfortunately they don't function correctly when used by idiots text messaging and soccer moms applying makeup while driving.

some of us are wondering... with single lanes and curbs on either side, how will the fire trucks and ambulances pass the semi's and combines?

could be worse, a "magic roundabout" -

http://tinyurl.com/l8ejqu

The roundabouts are dangerous. Although I do like sliding around them in my car at 40mph.

The project website is here, including a PDF map of the future routing of County M and Wisconsin 26:
http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/projects/wi...

This roundabout is almost as pointless as the idiotic roundabout at the new Menards in Janesville.

Let's all hope that these new traffic features do not prove to be too fragile. ;-)

It's about time we have roundabouts in this country.