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Title: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: Revive 755 on August 18, 2020, 11:18:25 PM
Example on Sycamore Street near Iowa City, Iowa (https://goo.gl/maps/dNpzHvTnjSXMPdCK6).  I am assuming there is another road planned to connect here in the future (possibly a future eastward extension of McCollister Boulevard).

Also this one on Yankee Hill Road near Lincoln, Nebraska (https://goo.gl/maps/sLNmH5HKbGFhYSJJ8)

Any others, possibly where future road connections have been canceled?
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: debragga on August 18, 2020, 11:25:07 PM
There are a few on Arkansas Road in West Monroe, LA, but the roundabouts are new enough that Street View and even Satellite imagery haven't been updated yet.
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: hotdogPi on August 19, 2020, 05:41:57 AM
I feel like this one is for a road test that happens to be open to the public.
https://goo.gl/maps/mZxSWYL9Ypk5hyMB6

I have no idea what this one is.
https://goo.gl/maps/vP1ToKSXYTUK99Cy5
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: SectorZ on August 19, 2020, 06:17:26 AM
Quote from: 1 on August 19, 2020, 05:41:57 AM
I feel like this one is for a road test that happens to be open to the public.
https://goo.gl/maps/mZxSWYL9Ypk5hyMB6

Nope, just "build it and they'll come" nonsense. They do film movies down there; if you slide west to the next intersection you can see a fake strip mall for a movie set. Last time I was down there a fake house was in that spot.
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: Rothman on August 19, 2020, 07:31:07 AM
Roundabout at Schoolhouse Road and Krumkill Road in Albany, NY serves a dirt road or driveway.
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: 1995hoo on August 19, 2020, 07:33:03 AM
I don't know why this one was built. The houses to one side were already there when they built this.

https://goo.gl/maps/7yFR76PEaKxLzMHC8


Also, this one here is relatively pointless because the road that goes off the "bottom" is not a thru street despite what the map seems to show (there's an industrial area down there that is gated off) and almost nobody uses the connection from the roundabout.

https://goo.gl/maps/uJ3q2YiYQZFiUyKAA
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: GaryV on August 19, 2020, 08:08:04 AM
While not "private", there are roundabouts on the south and east side of Saginaw Valley State University to access college roads.
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: EpicRoadways on August 19, 2020, 08:50:49 AM
In the most literal sense of the topic, this roundabout  (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5860731,-94.2059318,439m/data=!3m1!1e3)serves the entrance to a health clinic and, yes, a private driveway on the opposite side. It's actually a pretty congested roundabout. I've seen vehicles trying to enter the roadway from the private driveway a couple of times and I always feel bad because it looks like they've been waiting there for quite some time.
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: tdindy88 on August 19, 2020, 09:01:10 AM
On the Carmel-Indianapolis border, the roundabout with 96th Street and Hazel Dell Parkway has a dirt road to the south. Said road serves an IPL substation and an asphalt plant.
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: 1995hoo on August 19, 2020, 10:52:37 AM
Quote from: EpicRoadways on August 19, 2020, 08:50:49 AM
In the most literal sense of the topic, this roundabout  (https://www.google.com/maps/@45.5860731,-94.2059318,439m/data=!3m1!1e3)serves the entrance to a health clinic and, yes, a private driveway on the opposite side. It's actually a pretty congested roundabout. I've seen vehicles trying to enter the roadway from the private driveway a couple of times and I always feel bad because it looks like they've been waiting there for quite some time.

Zoom out slightly and you see six roundabouts AND a DDI. Nice!
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: froggie on August 19, 2020, 03:05:24 PM
Two roundabouts on the Vermont state highway system include access points to car dealerships:  US 2/302 in Montpelier, and VT 7A/VT 11/VT 30 in Manchester.
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: Terry Shea on August 19, 2020, 05:34:29 PM
This roundabout on Pfeiffer Woods DR. in Kentwood, MI serves a dumpster behind a retirement home and an employee parking lot.  The employee parking lot was recently added.  In the previous dozen years or so it just serviced the dumpster.  I'd venture to say this area sees about 100 vehicles per day.  https://roundabouts.kittelson.com/Roundabouts/Details/1198
Title: Re: Roundabouts currently serving minor driveways
Post by: kphoger on August 20, 2020, 12:28:00 PM
Quote from: Terry Shea on August 19, 2020, 05:34:29 PM
This roundabout on Pfeiffer Woods DR. in Kentwood, MI serves a dumpster behind a retirement home and an employee parking lot.  The employee parking lot was recently added.  In the previous dozen years or so it just serviced the dumpster.  I'd venture to say this area sees about 100 vehicles per day.  https://roundabouts.kittelson.com/Roundabouts/Details/1198

This might be stretching the thread too far, but I used to work here (https://goo.gl/maps/gGt97ByQ4tX9i5cK9).