Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts

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Roundabouts have been for about the last fifteen years the fashionable trend among urban planners. Therefore they are dropped willy-nilly anywhere and everywhere whether they make sense or not.

I think you should say ... been around in the Waterloo Region.  They've been around far longer than that in general.

While they have been around for very long, outside of England they were frowned upon from the late 70s until the early 90s.


In the late 90s we saw a revival both in Europe and NorthAmerica, first slowly and now raising to the present state where city municipalities are building them in intersections where they are not a clear win over a standard traffic light.