Reaction to our roundabout story

As South Carolina roads see increasing traffic, an experiment with a new way of moving traffic might hold promise.  And Oconee County has been designated to be part of that experiment.  A DOT official has told us that word should arrive in two weeks of which contractor will get to build Oconee’s first roundabout of modern time.  It’s planned for Wells Highway at Strawberry Farm Road near Seneca.  As a listener with a long memory has pointed out to us, the county experienced something similar 50 years ago or longer at what today appears still to be its busiest intersection.  123 and 28 at Seneca in the old days was a rotary intersection and infamously received the name Miracle Circle.  Wells Highway and Strawberry Farm Road appears to be in line for something similar.  In highway circles, today’s roundabouts move traffic in counterclockwise direction around a center island.  In a roundabout there are no stop signs or traffic signals.  To enter a roundabout safely, a driver should yield to traffic in the roundabout.  You simply maneuver in a circular fashion and get off at your desired exit.