This one does not make any sense! It will be only a matter of time until someone turns and heads down the interstate off ramps, thinking it is the way to get on the interstate!!! Aweful design, aweful.

Yes, roundabouts make great sense. Unfortunately, Wis DOT is over-engineering them with a veritable forest of signage and additionally undersizing them, particularly on state highways and freeway interchanges, as already noted. (Sigh.)

ledfoot- your inference about my statement is incorrect and your opinion, which you are entitled to...I wasn't talking about making changes to the existing roundabouts, and one accident doesn't tip the 'let's make a change' scale in your favor...wake up, folks, and slow down when entering a roundabout...they are a lot safer and save resources for the many industries/communities involved in their manufacture and upkeep...and to be clear on the subject, I love roundabouts :)

Using your logic partarican1, because un-managed intersections rarely have accidents, there should never be any changes made, even after an accident has proven that some change needs to be made. Great reasoning!
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Just to be clear on the subject, I hate roundabouts, BUT, if we have to have them make them big enough that they are EASILY navigated by semis too!

roundabouts are so simple and easy to use, so the more the merrier, I say...the tip-over in Milton does not mean those roundabouts are too small; hundreds of trucks and cars had been using them without incident before the one tip-over...

The Milton roundabouts have been plagued with accidents, including a tipped over-bulker of hazardous ethanol fuel. They are inconvenient and dangerous, yet they are 'pretty'.

I usually fly through them sideways drifting unless there is an idiot stopped in the middle lost.

I bet you will have a front row seat.

People dont know how to use them here. When I approach them the people already on them stop...duh. They also go into them at 5mph like they are entering a black hole or something. Ive witnessed a couple near misses at the menards one.....one of these days im going to see a good wreck.

I love roundabouts. I often do a couple extra laps just for kicks.

Plus One on what ledfoot said.
Well put.
The one at Menard's is a good example of their use. The Milton bypass is an example of bad use.

In theory they work well. However as the truck roll over in Milton pointed out they are too small. I also don't think most people have a clue what a yeald sign is for.
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You don't have to stop when there is another car on the other side of the roundabout getting on the same time as you are. These are the same people who slow down trying to merge onto the interstate. Completely clueless.

The only thing wrong with our roundabouts is they should be bigger

In this economy, our entertainment dollar has shrunk so far that it is absolutely the best bang for your buck to pack a picnic lunch and watch the roundabout roundheads provide cheap entertainment hour after hour.

li713: I agree completely. I have used hundreds of roundabouts in Europe and had ZERO issues. The major diffenence was that people knew how to use them and the government didn't place them in an idiotic manner.

nemesis - The metric system is already here, but we keep the imperial system around to keep old people from freaking out. Can you imagine the what would happen if all the highway speed limit signs were to all change to 90 KPH?
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I wish the round-a-bouts would go away the same way the idea of making the metric system a standard of the country.

I have a little zoom-zoom car now so roundabouts are fun.

From a safety standpoint roundabouts make sense. The problem is that people don't know how to use them. When you put a bunch of people that don't know what they're doing in a roundabout I'm not sure what you're going to end up with is less accidents than traditional intersections. I understand that chances are there will be fewer (if any) serious injuries or fatalities at roundabouts compared to a traditional intersection in the same place. People don't know how 4 way stops work either, but they're still all over the place, and generally as long as people actually stop at them there aren't many accidents.

If you have to drive them every day, roundabouts are not that bad. That being said, I really hate roundabouts. I especially hate the way the Wisconsin DOT feels the need to put multiple roundabouts one right after another very short distances from each other. Unfortunately, the WI DOT also feels the need to put them all over around interstate interchanges where people using them are not from here so sometimes have never seen one before, and often have no idea where the heck they're going to begin with. The purpose of a roundabout is to more safely slow traffic down while still keeping it moving. This sounds good in theory, but what I've witnessed at the ones around the Dells, at the I-94 exit in Cottage Grove, and off of I-43 in New Berlin is that people have no idea how they work and end up stopping or unsafely changing lanes because the second they get through one they are into another one and didn't have time to figure out which lane they needed to be in to go in the right direction. Things get extra complicated when people are trying to access things very near the roundabouts, like restaurants and shopping, and can't figure out where they're supposed to turn. I don't think the problem around here is actually the roundabouts. The problem is that people don't know how to use them, and the WI DOT makes very poor design and placement choices.