To the editor:

I was very upset when I read your editorial “Wrong solutions” in Tuesday’s Journal-World. The idea that not only the state, but also national and international rules of the road for roundabouts and traffic circles do not apply to “traffic-calming circles” is a recipe for disaster.

Personally, I have had three near-misses with people turning left and cutting the corners the wrong way at Goldfield Street and Harvard Road — and the plethora of yield signs certainly doesn’t help. If the correct signs for traffic circles and roundabouts were put up (a circle with an arrow arcing round to the right) there should be no problem. Whoever is already on the circle should have right of way.

For many years, traffic circles/roundabouts have been proven highly effective in calming and smoothing traffic flow in countries all over the world. It seems a great pity that we are not willing to learn from the vast experience extant in this field. Why do we have to reinvent the wheel?

In the meantime, please pass a law or do whatever else is needed to ensure that traffic-calming circles are subject to the same rules as regular traffic circles or roundabouts.

Les Hannon,

Lawrence