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Old 08-10-2006, 10:13 AM   #1
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Default ....two round-a-bouts headed this way!

So, what's going around and around in central New Hampshire? New round-a-bouts will be built on two busy state roads in Meredith and Plymouth sometime this fall or winter in spots where there were none before. Down in Massachusetts at the entrance to Cape Cod, that high traffic and frequently congested rotary, as it is called there, is being replaced with an overpass-underpass. Here in New Hampshire, the State is replacing two busy intersections that used blinking traffic lights with round-a-bouts.

In Meredith up the hill where route 3 and route 106, the Parade Road, intersects, and in Plymouth where the Holderness Rd crosses the new bridge from exit Rt 93 - exit 25, and intersects with Main St, route 3, and Plymouth State University. Attn: The Round-A-Bouts are comng here soon! What can be done.....oh no?

Hey, didn't Mitt Romney sell his Cape Cod vacation home and move to Winnipesaukee because that Cape Cod traffic was just too much. Yikes, and ohhhhhhhhh-nooooooooooo!, is that Cape Cod traffic phenom, the totally congested rotary........er......round-a-bout now disappearing from Massachusetts and spreading north to the Lakes Region of New Hampshire. Stop it......quik......before they spread..........ohhh nooooo.......my my.........double eek.......the round-a-bouts are headed this way. GOSH NO!
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Old 08-10-2006, 12:06 PM   #2
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A rotary by any other name is still a rotary. Round-abouts are very trendy with all the NH town engineers. They built two in Nashua, one that I traverse twice a day.

The short answer is that they stink. But just like jug-handles, they promise great things and your town's not cool if you don't have one. Be careful "traffic calming" is next.
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