Round and Round We Go: A Survival Guide to America’s Most Pointless Circle

Round and Round We Go: A Survival Guide to America’s Most Pointless Circle


How do you spot retired NASCAR drivers on the road?

They’re the ones stuck in a roundabout for two hours, waiting for someone to wave the checkered flag.

That’s not just a joke. That’s sociology. 

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In the extraordinary landscape of American traffic misadventures, nothing has thrown our driving confidence into chaos quite like the modern roundabout. These asphalt merry-go-rounds are spreading across towns like dandelions after the first mow, uninvited, unwanted, and totally immune to reason.

City planners say they ease traffic flow. 

I say they’re just bureaucratic crop circles designed to test our will to live.

The First Encounter: Confusion at 10 MPH

My first run-in with one of these circular contraptions was in Appleton, Wisc. I approached cautiously

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