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Proposed Victor roundabout causing concern among residents “Lions and Tigers and Bears… Oh MY!”

April 29, 2024 /

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“Somebody going around and you’re parallel to him or behind him and this guy turns left and you want to go right. Disaster,” he stated.

Driving in and out of Victor on U.S. Highway 93, vehicles pass Bell Crossing, an intersection noted as dangerous by the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT).

Ravalli Electric Co-Operative Manager of Communication Melissa Greenwood said that with the business being at Bell Crossing, “We’ve seen firsthand what we call near misses, accidents and even a fatality.”

By: Emily Brown

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‘We Couldn’t Take A Roundabout Out if We Wanted To’: An Interview with Jim Brainerd, Mayor of Carmel, Ind.

Since first taking office in 1996, Brainerd has made retrofitting the city’s road network the centerpiece of his platform, ripping out hundreds of traffic lights and replacing them with roughly 140 innovative circular traffic treatments that have helped slash rates of car crash deaths and serious injuries to some of the lowest levels in the nation.

Why are there NO Roundabouts on Missoula’s Reserve Street?: An Informational Guide 2nd Edition – US Dept. of Transportation

A roundabout is an intersection that uses a circular junction instead of stoplights or stop signs to manage traffic flow. Instead of every car stopping, they enter the roundabout slowly, and traffic moves almost continuously.

Roundabouts are (slowly!) eating the suburbs

Why add a roundabout, you might ask. Because roundabouts offer impressive safety gains. In general, a roundabout will drive down fatal crashes by 90 percent and cut all car-crash injuries by at least 75 percent, even while accommodating a higher volume of cars.

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