The roundabout at Flora Road and E. Broadway Avenue is one of Spokane Valley's newer additions to traffic flow in the city. (Jesse Tinsley/SR photo)

Few traffic features get people as riled up as roundabouts.

“I don’t like them. I just don’t like them. This is not Europe,” said Arne Woodard, deputy mayor of Spokane Valley.

The traffic circles are designed to slip cars through gnarly intersections. Think Columbus Circle in New York City; the Arc de Triomphe in Paris; and Trafalgar Square in London.

But the corner of East Mansfield and East Montgomery Drive in Spokane Valley?

“They are confusing and a menace,” said Karrie St. Clair, of Spokane. “If people can’t remember who has the right of way in an unmarked intersection, how are they going to be able to remember what to do at a roundabout?”

The circular intersections have their fans/Pia Hallenberg, SR. More here.

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