Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament.

Put it back the way it was...remove lane restrictions in the roundabout and restore two lanes of traffic flow during peaks times. Because of the congestion the single lanes have cause in the middle of Towson, I choose to no longer frequent the businesses there...I miss that, but traffic engineers have made a royal mess of things in the last couple of years. In some in cases, change is NOT always good.

I predict in 4 years you will be writing a similar article but it will be called "State scraps Roundabout goes back to traffic lights"

The State needs to look at one that Works! The folks in Essex bulked at the one at 702 and Homberg Ave but I for one was wrong. It has lanes large enough for trialered boats and very few accidents. Ones that have occured are only fender benders. And best of all, I don't need to sit at a red light waiting when there is no other traffic anywhere.

Am I missing something here - what are the planned changes??? This is a crucial intersection used by many people so telling us there will be changes without giving the details is not helpful.

why don't these idiots do the right the
first instead 3 times to make it right the
first time..guess the engineers had their
education in a third world nation..
explains supidity on their part

These fine folks should take a ride on rt 70 and rt 73 in south jersey and see how to manage and intersection of more than 2 roads

Just close it according to the Towson U schedule. Most of the accidents are all of the New York and Pennsylvania parents dropping off their college kids

A diagram of what it will finally (?) look like would have helped.

They would be better off adjusting the entrance and exit of the Towson Bypass and encourage people to not use the roundabout.

If I were the engineer, I would build a bridge for the pedestrians to cross, so that traffic can flow freely, with improvements. I just think it would be a safer way. Or maybe there is a budget in place.

@Mike. You could design a bridge as an engineer...but you'd need a politician to pay for it!

The on-street parking on York Road south of the circle is a total Catch-22. It's great that it makes it easier to park and encourages people to patronize businesses, but it jams up the traffic so much, nobody wants to go there in the first place. Is that good for business? Yogi Berra might have a good quip here...

that politician comment was for Mike, not James.

It seems like they accomplished their goal, people avoid it which lessens traffic . . .

Towson's traffic situation is hopeless. Once the County blithely decided to approve buildings and Towson U overdevelopment that used primarily narrow north south strees as main thoroughfares to connect the Beltway and N.Baltcounty with points south, it was over. Too many wide buildings with too many people in a tiny area. A radical move like a traffic ban in downtown Towson and the University might actually work if the state and county financed huge tram and bus service for intra-downtown and university locales. Chance of that happening? None. In several decades, assuming BC won't just be bankrupt along with the rest of state govt, (I don't assume that), Bgovt will be moved out beyond Hunt Valley and most of the Unversity wil be public housing for the grandchildren of the "Community" and New Americans whose representatives will run MD and BCounty totally. A nightmare. But we have a nightmare there now. Boycott Towson. All of it. Nothing you can't get elsewhere, better, or cheaper. Including "education".

Is there any way to encourage people to use their turn signals as they exit the circle? That would probably help.

Oh come on....It's never been the roundabout, it's the 15% of the drivers that just don't know or care to know how to navigate a circle. Plus the other 10% that just don't know how to drive period.

I avoid the circle at all costs since it does not operate like a normal traffic circle. If I have to use it, I only use it to make a quarter turn from York onto Joppa or Joppa onto Dulaney Valley Rd. It's so much easier, and there's way less traffic, driving around the side streets avoiding the circle. The circle has not prevented me from going to various Towson establishments though.

If anyone wants to know the impetus for the revised traffic patterns in and around Towson, review the Towson Walkable Plan found on the Baltimore County Office of Planning website. There, you will find all sorts of answers to the questions posted to this article. Keep in mind that the Walkable Plan for Towson is just that, the 'WALKABLE' plan. The primary reason traffic is bad is that most of the through traffic isn't used to the idea of taking a bypass route…at least not yet. This portion of York Road will go through a transition period before folks eventually realize that it is planned to revert back to being the “Main Street” of Towson. Also, once the way finding project is completed, drivers who want to visit Towson, and who are patient to read the signage, will know where to go for parking. Kudos to the SHA for working with the County, business interests, and the community, and for staying committed to the concept that not all State owned major arterials should simply be built to move traffic quickly.