City plans to install traffic circles at 5 intersections

[This is going to be bike/ped friendly??? Multi-lane roundabouts are a pain for pedestrians!]

By Michael Dresser | Baltimore Sun
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The city's plans signal an important change in Baltimore's strategy for keeping traffic flowing. [and increase Baltimore's 40% pedestrian traffic fatality rate?]

"It's a new way of thinking in the city," said Jessica Keller, chief of planning for the city Department of Transportation. "It's going to take a lot of education with the public."

The intersections where the city wants to install roundabouts are at some of the most visible, high-traffic locations in Baltimore. One is at Key and Light streets --the gateway to Federal Hill, Locust Point and the rest of South Baltimore. Two are proposed for 33rd Street, where the city wants to build traffic circles near Lake Montebello and at University Parkway.

A roundabout at Park Circle would replace one of the city's most troubled intersections, where Reisterstown Road, Druid Park Drive and Park Heights Avenue come together. Another, in Seton Hill, would reconfigure the junction of Druid Hill Avenue and Paca and Centre streets.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/bal-traffic-circles0522,0,993574.story