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Creating congestion in a roundabout way

One of the only real advantages in being considered nuts is that you have nothing to lose in expressing an opinion. That, and people generally allow you the privacy of your own gondola cabin when heading up the mountain.

With that preface, I am going to give you my radical and previously unexpressed solution to alleviate some local traffic congestion.

Here it is in my own humble and well chosen words: Bulldoze the roundabout and re-install a traffic light in its place.

I'm serious.

The reason is simple: Our $6 million traffic circle on the outskirts of our town doesn't work.

The reason it doesn't function well is that traffic circles always favor a flow of traffic that crosses (read: cuts off) another flow of traffic, irregardless of the volume of any particular competing flow of automobiles, busses, and trucks.