As areas grow, infrastructure also sees updates. In Emmett, some of those updates were in the form of traffic circles. I’m your Emmett neighborhood reporter, Alexander Huddleston, learning the rules of the road regarding these types of traffic patterns.
“In making a city more walkable, you have to make it so it is safe,” nodded Emmett Mayor Gordon Petrie.
A few years back, the Emmett City Council elected to construct two traffic circles as the city made road improvements to the corridor.
The mayor explained, “Previously, there were stop signs at East 4th and East 12th. There were times on a Friday afternoon that if you were trying to cross Johns, you would be there for a while.”
Mayor Petrie says the engineers in charge of the project said that traffic circles were much more efficient than stop signs and much less expensive than traffic lights, which totaled up to a million dollars…