Gerry is usually right.

This was one the proposals that didn't seem to be developer-proposed. My thinking was this came out more of the technical and math oriented traffic engineers.

After looking through them the other week, I didn't find them particularly troubling. I think traffic circles can work when they're well-placed and made pedestrian friendly; but the latter is a BIG caveat. When I subsequently realized I'd overlooked the Maryland/Cathedral/Mt. Royal interchange, I thought otherwise. I can't see how that would work, or even be desirable. Park Circle is the most appropriate, the others seem superfluous.

I appreciate Gerry's comments, because so often urban planning (which includes transporation) becomes a religion with too much normative reasoning, when in reality it is a very mathematical discipline with many time and space considerations. These considerations are too often ignored, dismissed and very often presented as if they don't exist--or, at best, we'll figure out how to fix it after we build it!

Nate Payer
TRAC
The views presented here are my own.