I’m still perplexed by this traffic circle under construction at the entrance to St. Simons Island.  While I’ve already voiced my complaint but after driving through this circle some more over the past several weeks, I have this to say…

Now, consider that a good chunk of the residential population of St. Simons Island live Mid-North to North on the Island as it is not as developed commercially as the South end… and consider also, that since the South end of the Island is indeed more commercially developed than the northern parts of the Island, there is less residential traffic but more business related traffic and therefore, commuters from the Mainland on the south end of the Island.

So now imagine the evening rush hour… as people who work on the Mainland come home across the 4 mile stretch of the Torras Causeway… they approach the end and must now veer right onto the circle and then eventually veer left.  At that point, the circle (which is down to one lane right now due to on-going construction) meets up with the very critical road by which anyone leaving work in the Village area (the business/tourist heavy part of the Island) will invariably approach.  Right now, it is just a back up… it took us 20 minutes just to get our way through this last Friday around 3:50pm from just past the Golden Isles Marina. Folks leaving the Island must yield to traffic coming on the Island… it backs up both in-bound and out-bound… all because of the light at Demere Rd.

So, once this other lane opens, imagine this:  Out-bound traffic comes westbound and veers right onto the circle. In-bound traffic comes eastbound and veers left into the circle.  Now, they are both northbound, out-bound on the right lane, in-bound on the left. But… now, each side of traffic must effectively switch places… Out-bound traffic must move to the left lane to catch the left turn light and get off the Island… and In-bound traffic must get on the right lane to either go north through the light or make a right onto Demere.   Am I making any sense here? Boy,  I think I need a dandelion break… sigh.

Hence, I’m still really confused by the whole thing.

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