roundabouts

Looks like the fifth Chick-fil-A location is coming to Latham. But there were traffic concerns that seem to be solved in a roundabout way.

It looks like there will be roundabouts built in a busy stretch of roadway in downtown Troy. Officials say there will finally be a gateway into downtown Troy that is safe for cyclists, pedestrians, and commuters.

Everyone knows that the areas near Route 146 and Route 9 in Clifton Park are extremely congested. Now with the plan to build the One-Four-Six Marketplace in the works, it will just get worse. They want to reconfigure the area to make the traffic flow better. Does that mean more roundabouts are in the future?

Driving in the Capital Region most of my life, I had no problem with roundabouts or as we called them growing up, Latham Circle. You see that was the only one we had and it worked very well. Everyone seemed to know what to do and traffic flowed pretty smoothly through that area. Well, a few years ago the roundabout game changed in my opinion.

With an increase in traffic in the Malta area, and possibly even more traffic in the future, a plan has been submitted to build two more roundabouts in the town.

I travel just about every day on Fuller Road and Washington Avenue in Albany, just like so many of you. There’s plenty of construction going on, and there will be what I consider some major changes for those roads. I told you when it was ready to start in another story. After doing a little research, thanks to NYSDOT, I finally got a glimpse of what the final product should look like.

Over the last few years, there have been these changes to many Albany area intersections called roundabouts.

At the intersection of Route 4 and Luther Road in East Greenbush, there’s construction of a new roundabout, but it’s being halted.