What Goes Around, Comes Around
DOT officials are proposing a roundabout at Route 2 and 102.
Everything’s cyclical – even roadway designs. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation is proposing building a roundabout at the Route 2 and 102 intersection, west of Route 4, and including the driveway to Oatley's Restaurant. If this plan sounds familiar, it should: North Kingstown was home to two roundabouts on Ten Road Road (Route 102) in 1980s. According to Town Councilor Chuck Brennan (a former North Kingstown police officer), the roundabouts were taken out about 25 years ago once Route 4 was built. More than two decades later, the DOT is proposing a roundabout once again in an effort to curb car accidents at the intersection. According to a report presented to the North Kingstown Town Council on Monday night, there have been 46…
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Jim from Exeter
7:49 am on Sunday, November 25, 2012
What is being proposed is not "your father's rotary." Modern roundabout design differs significantly from the three old Rt. 2 rotaries we used to know and hate in North Kingstown, two of which were located about a mile apart at the two intersections of Rt. 102 and Rt. 2, with the third one situated a few miles further south down Rt. 2 at the Rt. 138 intersection. These things were incredibly … more ›