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Each year the City receives numerous requests to reduce traffic congestion on streets throughout the city. Citizens also express concerns about the safety of the streets on which they live. In an effort to find appropriate ways to deal with these concerns, reduce traffic congestion, and improve safety, the City of Modesto is now increasingly using roundabouts on collector/collector intersections, as well as on arterials. Currently, we have roundabouts at six intersections in Modesto. Many more are planned in the newly developing areas of town.

Roundabouts are used throughout the United States in several cities, Europe, and in other countries around the world to reduce injury accidents, traffic delays, fuel consumption, air pollution, and construction costs, while increasing capacity and enhancing intersection beauty. They have also successfully been used to control traffic speeds in residential neighborhoods and are accepted as the safest types of intersection design.