Residents of Indiana may think a traffic roundabout to be a novelty ("What goes around", November 19th), but in New Jersey traffic circles have been in use during the 60 years that I have lived here. Despite this history, locals and visitors have never quite got the hang of them. An afternoon's entertainment can be had by setting up a chair and watching people attempting to navigate one. Some speed up and hope for the best. Some stop and get rear-ended. A few motor straight across the centre island. Some find it difficult to read signs while driving in a circle. This is always accompanied by horns, rude gestures and the sound of metal and plastic being deformed.
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