Driving In Circles

Our smallish town in northern Colorado seems to have an infatuation with roundabouts. Areas of new growth get the circular intersections installed from the beginning while road improvement projects seem to add at least one per year.

For those without first-hand experience, a roundabout is like coming to an intersection but only being able to make a right-hand turn. If you had wanted to turn left, too bad. You have to go right and circle around three-quarters of a revolution before exiting onto...