This saga is a hobby of mine. In 2001?2002? or so, when the first big roundabout was installed, my parents sent me the detailed instructions on navigating the roundabout that came enclosed in that month’s utility bill and I was hooked. Within months, the city had also posted a video on its website explaining how to drive around it. When I was working late I would watch it. The year we lived there (2003) there was a movement to put one in front of our house at 13th and Chipeta. Meetings were held, people were lobbied, a smaller, temporary roundabout was put in place to see “how it worked.” And after the season’s first snow I looked out the window at the mostly unblemished snow and saw two lone tire tracks going straight across the top of it.
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1 amy // Mar 5, 2008 at 9:46 pm
This saga is a hobby of mine. In 2001?2002? or so, when the first big roundabout was installed, my parents sent me the detailed instructions on navigating the roundabout that came enclosed in that month’s utility bill and I was hooked. Within months, the city had also posted a video on its website explaining how to drive around it. When I was working late I would watch it. The year we lived there (2003) there was a movement to put one in front of our house at 13th and Chipeta. Meetings were held, people were lobbied, a smaller, temporary roundabout was put in place to see “how it worked.” And after the season’s first snow I looked out the window at the mostly unblemished snow and saw two lone tire tracks going straight across the top of it.
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