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Old 01-02-2012, 04:53 PM
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[QUOTE=BogeyBoy;435559]Two cars did a little fender kissing routine, luckily it looks like no one was hurt.

Reducing each circle to one lane would help, doesn't seem that we get that much traffic that we couldn't manage.



My sentiments, exactly. I have said it before and I'll say it again, The Villages is no place for 2-lane roundabouts......too many old people with tunnel vision, not to mention poor vision, necks that don't turn so they can see who is beside them, a likely large percentage of them in the early stages of dementia. As many as 11% of people at age 65 have dementia and that number climbs to 25%-45% heading toward age 85......pretty scary to know that one in five people (or more) in a roundabout at any given time may not even know where they are. A retirement community is no place for roundabouts unless they are one lane.
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