List of traffic circles in New Jersey

List of traffic circles in New Jersey

This is a list of traffic circles in New Jersey. The U.S. state of New Jersey at one point had a total of 101 traffic circles, 44 of which were part of state roads. However, the number has shrunk as traffic circles have been phased out by the New Jersey Department of Transportation.cite news | last=Peterson | first=Iver | title=Squaring Traffic Circles With Lights and Bridges | publisher="The New York Times" | date=1991-11-12 | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDE1E38F931A25752C1A967958260 | accessdate=2008-07-28 ] cite news | last=Capuzzo | first=Jill P. | title=A Shift, but for Some Drivers, a Vicious Circle | publisher="The New York Times" | date=2007-11-25 | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/25circlesnj.html?pagewanted=1&ref=automobiles | accessdate=2008-07-28 ] In the 1920s and 1930s, New Jersey felt that traffic circles were an efficient way for moving traffic through three or more intersecting roads. Built in 1925, the first traffic circle in New Jersey was the Airport Circle in Pennsauken.cite news | last=Walsh | first=Jim | title=Circles slow to roll off South Jersey roadways | publisher="Courier-Post" | date=2006-07-29 | url=http://courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060729/SPECIAL17/607300332 | accessdate=2008-07-28 ] As suburban and rural populations grew New Jersey's traffic circles became outdated. The increased number of drivers on the roads resulted in traffic circles being more likely to hinder traffic than help it. Increased number of vehicles and faster traffic speeds made traffic circles more dangerous and accidents common. Many traffic circles became notorious for having frequent accidents and being confusing, especially for non-locals. [cite book | last=Africano | first=Lillian | coauthors=Nina Africano | title=You Know You're in New Jersey When...: 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo, and Eats of the Garden State | publisher=Globe Pequot | date=2006 | location=Guilford, CT | pages=Page 90 | isbn=0762739398 ] Not helping the confusion is the state has no offical rules for using traffic circles. Starting around the 1970s, the New Jersey Department of Transportation began phasing out traffic circles.cite news | last=Newman | first=Andy | coauthors= | title=Road and Rail; Straightening Out the Perilous Somerville Circle | publisher="The New York Times" | date=1996-01-28 | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05EFDD1639F93BA15752C0A960958260 | accessdate=2008-07-28 ] Common methods of eliminating traffic circles are building a road through the circle, adding traffic lights, and the use of grade separation.cite web |last=Dwyer |first=Christopher |url=http://www.bh-ba.com/cardiff_traffic.html |title=Buchart-Horn Designs ReplacementFor Bygone Transportation System |publisher=Buchart Horn, Inc. & BASCO Associates |accessdate=2008-07-28 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070813102239/http://bh-ba.com/cardiff_traffic.html |archivedate=2007-08-13]

Traffic circles

Modified traffic circles are intersections where parts or all of the original circle still exist as a major part of the intersection.

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