roundabouts

Looks like the fifth Chick-fil-A location is coming to Latham. But there were traffic concerns that seem to be solved in a roundabout way.

It looks like there will be roundabouts built in a busy stretch of roadway in downtown Troy. Officials say there will finally be a gateway into downtown Troy that is safe for cyclists, pedestrians, and commuters.

Everyone knows that the areas near Route 146 and Route 9 in Clifton Park are extremely congested. Now with the plan to build the One-Four-Six Marketplace in the works, it will just get worse. They want to reconfigure the area to make the traffic flow better. Does that mean more roundabouts are in the future?

Driving in the Capital Region most of my life, I had no problem with roundabouts or as we called them growing up, Latham Circle. You see that was the only one we had and it worked very well. Everyone seemed to know what to do and traffic flowed pretty smoothly through that area. Well, a few years ago the roundabout game changed in my opinion.