To the editor:

According to the engineering plan and answers to my questions, I understand that a roundabout is built tall with the intent of blinding a driver from oncoming traffic “distractions.” A crosswalk is built one car-length per lane of traffic out from the roundabout.

According to www.kasolddrive.com, at peak hours 1,174 vehicles will funnel through the intersection of Harvard and Kasold per hour, and the projection is that it will increase to 1,320. 

That works out to 19.5/22 vehicles a minute. That is a delivery truck every three minutes and a semi every 15 minutes. Half of these vehicles will be accelerating out of the roundabout into a crosswalk just one car length away and will not see the crosswalk until they are halfway around the roundabout.

What insurance plan do you offer your part-time employed (minimum wage?) school crossing guard that he or she will feel totally comfortable taking that walk, repeatedly, in varied daylight and weather conditions, into nonstop traffic of 20-plus cars a minute? What are you asking of our children?

I have heard the bike/pedestrian group say they want a safe crossing for their children. So do I. 

We need to completely stop traffic, and provide full vision of these young people and of our crossing guard, particularly in inclement weather. Anything less than is simply not sufficient.