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Additional Linda Lane Facts:
Linda Lane is a 4 lane roadway with median divided highway.
The new extension features three main entrances to the new schools. One to service visitor and staff entrances to a parking area for each school, and one shared signalized bus entrance.
There is a 8′ shared use path for pedestrian and bicyclist along the length of the project.
The speed limit on Linda Lane is 25 mph. It is suggested that vehicles travel at 15 mph inside the roundabout.
The roadway project features stormwater management and quality control structures, including installation of hydrodynamic separators (stormwater quality units) to filter pollutants out of stormwater, and a connection to the old quarry lake for holding of treated stormwater runoff.
The Smithland Rd railroad crossing has been improved featuring flashing lights and automatic flashing warning lights, and a concrete road surface for smoother vehicular crossing.
The project included upgrading and relocating sewer mains, and an extension of a 16″ water main to serve the new schools.
In the near future, improvements will include landscaping and trees, and installation of street lighting.

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Well all this explains the odd thing I found around a season ago: some Harrisonburg dept (maybe Public Works?) seeking bids on specialized stencils for roundabout use. My thought then was “where?” Haven’t seen any except for tiny attempts in private developments like that cluster of townhouses in the Spring streets off of Boyers Road in the eastern fringe of the city. Anyway I’ve got to try to find again wherever on the web it was I saw the roundabout stencil item –can watch that place for more clues about future projects.

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I don’t know if round-a-bouts are the answer to bad traffic problems but they are nice. And people will complain about them, just like I complain about people who don’t “right-on-red” when they can (or do when the shouldn’t). Everyone has to learn sometime. There will always be people who don’t.

Harrisonburg is always going to grow. This is just smart traffic design.

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It will take less tax dollars – BONUS!
I won’t have to wait at a light for 4 minutes – BONUS!
We, the City, have decided to try something new (for us) – BONUS!

I can’t think of a downside at all. Good job City Planners!

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I have read all this stuff about how they are supposed to be safer and more efficient and all that, blah blah blah. But I must say that my experience with them in many locations has left me hating their guts, so to speak.

but how many times have we cursed the traffic light for changing for no one, taking too long to change, or changing for someone simply taking a right hand turn?

after living in a part of Germany for a year that made pretty good use of roundabouts even in the countryside, I learned to love them.

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