Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts

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I drove through this four times this past weekend as I made two trips to Cambridge (first time this year!), passing through the roundabout to continue along Homer Watson.  Smooth!  I much, much preferred it to the old traffic-lighted configuration.  Mind you, I have not yet seen it in rush-hour traffic.

I've not driven through during rush hour myself, and was on vacation last week so my anecdotes are especially poor data, but as a bus and van passenger it's mostly moved well. Last night at 5:20ish approaching Homer Watson on Ottawa coming from downtown it was slow but that's in part due to the reduction down to one lane just before the roundabouts and people not knowing how to zipper.

I think once all the lanes are opened and the visual interference of the cones is removed things will go much more quickly than they did with standard intersections, especially for those coming off the highway to travel towards Conestoga Cottage along Homer Watson.