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Roundabouts are becoming very common here in new development. Personally, I think they're great. Traffic gets processed more quickly. Bend, OR is full of them now. I don't mind a bit, and I think the more people get used to using them, the better they are for everyone.
About 10 years ago or so now, they built one of the first roundabouts in the PacNW in Lacey, WA. The City of Lacey sent an engineer out to speak to the retirement community my grandfather was living in, presumably to explain to the doddering old folk how such a thing worked. Given that a healthy percentage of the old folk were people who had grown up in Europe, it turned out that they knew more about driving in a roundabout than the city engineer did, and they sent him away befuddled.
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