Roundabouts easy to hate

Your article, “Survey: Most Oregon, Washington drivers OK with roundabouts” (Feb. 24), about how most people love roundabouts was fantasy. About like the polls showing Hillary beating Donald. All anyone has to do to hate roundabouts is to drive south on Highway 2 through the terrifying Costco two-lane roundabout.

Yes, I know, there are places in Europe that have like six-lane roundabouts (Arch of Triumph in Paris, where there are people from the 1960s still going round and round). And in England a roundabout is a small painted circle in an intersection. Maybe it works in England because people are more polite there. And maybe it works in France because they are not. But in our society, where nobody really knows the rules of the road when it comes to uncontrolled intersections, at least people understand (if not follow) traffic lights.

And judging from the reported cost of these monstrosities (over half a megabuck), it would seem a few light bulbs at intersections would be cheaper. And lower your blood pressure.

Dennis DeMattia

Spokane