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Old 08-28-2023, 08:09 AM   #2
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Default ... roundabout vs stop lights?

Suggest you take a visit to Rt 3, Daniel Webster Hgwy in Meredith to see how much faster a roundabout intersection will move traffic than a stop light intersection as Meredith has both a busy roundabout and a busy stop light within one mile.

This is an obvious observation that the roundabout keeps traffic moving, albeit slowly, while the stop lights make it stop and go, with rapid stopping and starting.

So, which one is the better choice for Wolfeboro? Wolfeboro has the easy opportunity to learn from Meredith's major blunder, stop light intersection, when it could have been a roundabout, built in about 2012. In 2012 the NH-DOT strongly suggested a roundabout but unfortunately a Meredith town warrant vote supported the stop lights.

The argument was that a roundabout would divide the town in half while a stop light would have push button activated, pedestrian walkways.
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