Quoted from Gemini

he other thing that drives me nuts is the speed.  In the morning there are a lot of little kids out there waiting for the buses.  I watch people flying down the roads.  Would allowing free flow traffic circles control this a little more?  

and they have the balls to tell us circles SLOW traffic

Quoted from Gemini

What about the railroad bridge on Curry?  There is no way they will be able to rip that out for a 4 lane unless someone oks it.  Id love to see it evened out, wider and higher.  But you know there will be a fight on who will pay for it.  I dread going under that thing in the winter.  And one morning I was stuck on Curry because there was a truck stuck under it.  

no one is proposing making Curry Road 4 lanes -- and the bridge is not included in the study area -- the studyarea is 5 corners and 4 corners and portion of Curry Road between those two intersections  ---  that was the study area defined by the previous administration when they applied for the grant money for the study

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

no one is proposing making Curry Road 4 lanes -- and the bridge is not included in the study area -- the studyarea is 5 corners and 4 corners and portion of Curry Road between those two intersections  ---  that was the study area defined by the previous administration when they applied for the grant money for the study

who own's the dilapidated building on the corner of 4corners, right next to the pizza/candle shop?

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I was referring to an 1866 map of Rotterdam that I have ..  Obviously, I know that the Civil War ended in 1865.

tried to make it a civil statement, but you still have to weasal around.....your original statement was
"....since the end of the American Civil War in 1866."It wasn't a big deal, but you simply had to do your political back peddle, divert and throw a smoke screen insteasd of saying OOPS!!!  It takes a big man to say OOPS....like I said I would do about the Stratton comment that you never came back with.

So, if I misunderstood your statements and the intent, I AM SORRY !!!!

Quoted from senders

who own's the dilapidated building on the corner of 4corners, right next to the pizza/candle shop?

CVS.  I don't know why code enforcement hasn't done something about that building.  The last I heard is that CVS can't do anything with that building until they get more properties that border it.  They would be moving the 5 Corners (or will we now call it 2 Circles) CVS to this location, leaving another empty building, right at what used to be the main part of town.  I remember all the small businesses that were wiped out when McDonald's came to take over a full block.  Now, because traffic is slow, they want to take out more businesses.  If it weren't for the brand new Tops, 5 Corners would be starting to turn into a ghost town.

Quoted from 612

55T you couldn't be more wrong about the roundabout at Hamburg street.  It has done MUCH to improve the traffic flow at 5:00 - 6:00.  I was against the roundabout initially but it so improved my drive-time that I love it.  YOu must not drive through there each day or if you do you must be buzzed--because it works very well.

You obviously don't travel it from Curry Road going toward Altamont ave. I would say 3 out 5 days traffic is backed up to the overpass. If you don't think so, you must be blind. In fact, i will log it for the next 2 weeks to prove my point. I hit the exit off of 890 between 5:05 and 5:15pm daily.
In the morning the roundabout has made things better, but in the afternoon in the direction I travel, it makes no difference.

I came into town yesterday mornng around 10am, turned left onto curry at four corners, heading to altamont....traffic coming from altamont ave was backed up from 4 corners to the car wash.  I think traffic on curry has multiplied 110x over what it was when I was in school and it seems it gets heavier every year.

This whole conversation is moot. Those in control of law enforcement and the political dynamic here in Police Town have already decided what is good for you.

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

This whole conversation is moot. Those in control of law enforcement and the political dynamic here in Police Town have already decided what is good for you.

that would be more MFRH and condos and such.....yay! talk about planning

I also use the roundabout between curry and altamont. I too think it has improved traffic.

Quoted from 539

I also use the roundabout between curry and altamont. I too think it has improved traffic.

There's a roundabout at Curry and Altamont?

Must be thinking Curry and Hamburg.  Still the same old intersection at Curry and Altamont.

Quoted from joebxr

tried to make it a civil statement, but you still have to weasal around.....your original statement was
"....since the end of the American Civil War in 1866."It wasn't a big deal, but you simply had to do your political back peddle, divert and throw a smoke screen insteasd of saying OOPS!!!  It takes a big man to say OOPS....like I said I would do about the Stratton comment that you never came back with.

So, if I misunderstood your statements and the intent, I AM SORRY !!!!

No one was weaseling ..  the map that I have is from 1866  which was just a year after Lee's surrender

Your other nasty comments really weren't necessary .. but I don't expect anything better from you .. anyway.

Quoted from 147

There's a roundabout at Curry and Altamont?

depends on how many beers one has had before heading through the intersection

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Your other nasty comments really weren't necessary .. but I don't expect anything better from you .. anyway.

Ah gee, I'm sorr......NAH!!!  
Back on topic:
The circle at Hamburg appears to be more efficient than I thought it would be.  When I am in France (business not pleasure), I noticed that roundabouts are very prominent and seem to efficently manage traffic flow.  The majority of them are designed like the Hamburg one, with only 1 lane of traffic going around.  It's the ones with 2 lanes I always thought were issues.  People are uncertain many times on how to drive those because of the inner and outer lanes.

Looking at 5 corners, that would probably be a big task to develop an efficient circle.  I think it's similar to Latham Circle in terms of number of roads, etc.  Haven't been that way in quite some time, but heard they redesigned that circle.