NEWS
By Larry Perl, lperl@tribune.com | June 11, 2013
Construction of a mini-traffic circle began Monday at 39th Street and Canterbury Road in Tuscany-Canterbury, and is already affecting one local restaurant in a roundabout way. Dino Zeytinoglu, owner of La Famiglia, an Italian restaurant in the Broadview Apartments near the circle site, said he had a party of 106 people coming for dinner Monday night and was worried that they would have difficulty getting to the restaurant, especially on a rainy...
NEWS
By Larry Perl, lperl@tribune.com | August 1, 2013
About a dozen Tuscany-Canterbury residents, including their city councilwoman, gathered Wednesday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the neighborhood's new traffic circle, which they hope will make the intersection of 39th Street and Canterbury safer. "It's kind of a non-threatening place, but it's busy," said 14th District Councilwoman and longtime resident Mary Pat Clarke. Clarke was relieved when the circle, a hotly debated traffic-calming device, opened last month. "This is the first time since I moved here in 1967 that I pull into this intersection from Canterbury (Road)
NEWS
By Larry Perl, lperl@tribune.com | November 21, 2013
Residents in the Charles Village area really like their quirky new neighbor, Charlie, who seems to live in the middle of a traffic circle. For many residents, Charlie is the only thing they do like about the controversial traffic circle at 32nd Street and Guilford Avenue in Abell. But the Baltimore City Department of Transportation doesn't like Charlie one bit. Officials say Charlie is a safety hazard and threatened to physically remove him Friday, Nov. 22, unless the community - or the artist who created him - took him down first.
EXPLORE
December 16, 2011
I routinely use the traffic circle going north and south on Old Frederick Road and have had numerous near misses, mainly from drivers traveling west on Edmondson Avenue. The problem is many drivers drive west on Edmondson Avenue as if they have the right of way, no matter how long someone is at one of the other three positions in the circle. This is especially true during evening rush hour traffic. A consistent observation is that a line of cars will try to continue through the circle without letting drivers on Old Frederick proceed.
NEWS
By Erik Nelson and Erik Nelson,Staff Writer | April 11, 1993
Lisbon residents never wanted to be part of the State Highway Administration's "roundabout" traffic circle experiment to begin with.And they say two traffic accidents in less than two weeks since construction began on the project is proof enough that highway officials didn't make sense when they said there's not enough traffic to justify installing a signal at the intersection of Routes 144 and 94."I'm angry that that would happen," said County Councilman Charles C. Feaga, a Republican who represents western Howard.
NEWS
By Erik Nelson ..TC and Erik Nelson ..TC,Staff Writer | October 11, 1993
After a successful six-month trial run, Lisbon's "roundabout" traffic circle should be a permanent fixture by Friday.Construction crews were to pour concrete this weekend for the center of the traffic circle at Routes 144 and 94 and complete work Friday on four islands that channel vehicles into and out of the roundabout.If rain pre-empts the concrete work, the project will be delayed by one week.State Highway Administration officials persuaded skeptical Lisbon residents in April to accept the temporary roundabout, the first of its kind in the state.