Roundabouts Should Be On Maps

[roadfro]

You should be glad you live in Wisconsin, as roundabouts are required to be investigated any time a traffic signal is proposed.  You also happen to live smack in the middle of the nation's largest number of roundabouts as part of a single project (USH 41).  Forty-four will be in-place along the corridor when the reconstruction is complete.

I believe that. I'm in Oshkosh, WI right now. Just earlier today, had to traverse four roundabouts to get from one side of US 41 to the other when crossing over on 9th Ave.

Out of curiosity, when you refer to mini-roundabouts, are you referring to neighborhood traffic calming circles, or true mini-roundabouts (with a painted central island), as seen in the UK?

Most "true" mini-roundabouts I've seen *don't* have a painted central island, but a small rounded median usually with signs and sometimes with mini boulders to give it substance...these are usually the type of roundabouts put in neighborhoods and often installed in retrofits.

[Jordanah1]

why would you want to avoid them? i love them, and once communities become used to them, they usually work well, there is no reason to avoid them. if it was up to me, roundabouts would be built in almost all reconstructer intersections were space is available, this would include mini-roundabouts in residential areas.

I completely agree.

You should be glad you live in Wisconsin, as roundabouts are required to be investigated any time a traffic signal is proposed.  You also happen to live smack in the middle of the nation's largest number of roundabouts as part of a single project (USH 41).  Forty-four will be in-place along the corridor when the reconstruction is complete.

Out of curiosity, when you refer to mini-roundabouts, are you referring to neighborhood traffic calming circles, or true mini-roundabouts (with a painted central island), as seen in the UK?

sorry for the delay answering, but i was refering to painted or slightly raised mini-roundabouts, as defined, they must be able to be transversed without actually going around them, were you could go straight through the middle, which can be raised asphalt like a speedbump. i live in the extream northern part of the oshkosh residential grid, and there is decent ROW at the intersections there, were mini roundabouts would easily fit in the current footprint.
i also would like to see more mulit lane roundabouts in place around town, especially the four way stop at harrison(2lane arterial) and murdock(4lane arterial) a multi lane fourway stop is a massively bad idea! every time i drive through there except late at night and on sundays, someone ends up waving with one finger at someone else.

[DaBigE]

sorry for the delay answering, but i was refering to painted or slightly raised mini-roundabouts, as defined, they must be able to be transversed without actually going around them, were you could go straight through the middle, which can be raised asphalt like a speedbump. i live in the extream northern part of the oshkosh residential grid, and there is decent ROW at the intersections there, were mini roundabouts would easily fit in the current footprint.
i also would like to see more mulit lane roundabouts in place around town, especially the four way stop at harrison(2lane arterial) and murdock(4lane arterial) a multi lane fourway stop is a massively bad idea! every time i drive through there except late at night and on sundays, someone ends up waving with one finger at someone else.

I couldn't agree more regarding multilane all-way stops.
Usually, four-way/all-way stops are supposed to be a temporary solution, especially when used in an urban environment.  That said, there are many of those in multilane form around the city of Madison (apparently temporarily permanent).  One in particular that I try to avoid (at least between the hours of 8am & 8pm) is next to the Culvers in front of East Towne Mall http://g.co/maps/vzcjr (4-lane x-section meets a 5-lane x-section).  They also just reconstructed an intersection on the far northeast side of the city http://g.co/maps/qnu2v (StreetView shows the old, Satellite shows the new)...constructed it for [future] signals but instead installed stop signs.  It would have been a perfect location for a multilane roundabout.