If you’ve ever driven down Needmore Road in Clarksville, you know the intersection with Whitfield Road has a lot of traffic. So city engineers installed the community’s first public roundabout.
But they couldn’t have predicted what would come next.
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Anticipation about the new roundabout, both for and against the project, has inspired local online news outlet ClarksvilleNow.com to publish several stories .
“This is the first public roundabout we’ve had in the city,” said Chris Smith, Editor-in-Chief for ClarksvilleNow.
It’s important to note a vast majority of local drivers know exactly what to do when they get to the roundabout. But there have been a few completely and utterly confused. Video captured on a live stream camera near the roundabout depicts one car turning left into oncoming traffic, evidently confused by the painted directions on the road.
But that’s not the only thing turning heads.
“There’s a Facebook page that opened to document all this,” Smith said.