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Recent Examples of traffic circle
That approval clears just one of the potential hurdles in the path to building a 250-foot structure in a traffic circle on the Virginia side of the Potomac River.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
21 May 2026
McCrery recommended doing away with the lions on the base and objected to plans for an underground tunnel for pedestrians to get to the arch, which would be built on a traffic circle.
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CBS News,
21 May 2026
Three graves with 15 bodies were found within a mile of the city’s iconic La Minerva roundabout, a huge traffic circle featuring fountains, greenery and a towering statue of the Roman goddess Minerva.
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Steve Fisher,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
In the 1990s, while the area around Columbus Circle was being rebuilt by private developers, the city was considering an upgrade to the traffic circle itself.
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Lucius Riccio,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
21 May 2026
McCrery recommended doing away with the lions on the base and objected to plans for an underground tunnel for pedestrians to get to the arch, which would be built on a traffic circle.
—
CBS News,
21 May 2026
Three graves with 15 bodies were found within a mile of the city’s iconic La Minerva roundabout, a huge traffic circle featuring fountains, greenery and a towering statue of the Roman goddess Minerva.
—
Steve Fisher,
Los Angeles Times,
17 May 2026
In the 1990s, while the area around Columbus Circle was being rebuilt by private developers, the city was considering an upgrade to the traffic circle itself.
—
Lucius Riccio,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traffic circle
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The former project would place two natural rocks topped with pelican statues in La Jolla Boulevard medians next to the pedestrian crossings south of the Colima Street roundabout and north of the Camino de la Costa roundabout.
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Crews will replace the concrete truck apron inside the roundabout.
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As with its other disco dance floors in Delray Beach and around the country, this location will be adorned in Farrah Fawcett posters, trucker hats and rotary telephones, serve retro drinks like a Dirty Ash Tray and bump to the Bee Gees and Earth, Wind & Fire.
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Standard Rotary Blade Push Mower To adjust the mower height on a standard rotary-blade push mower, start by locating the adjustment levers.
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As darkness settled over Washington Square Park, supporters formed circles, waved Ghanaian flags and continued singing Jama into the evening.
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Activities include swimming, competitions, sports, but also therapeutic group dialogue circles.
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The Tollway plans to build a full interchange at a cost of $132 million.
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Merchants pay interchange on card payments and hold working balances that earn them nothing, and a coin that settles instantly, costs less to accept and, under Open USD’s model, pays them the yield on their balances answers both at once.
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But residents of the surrounding area have complained for years that the nearby cloverleaf interchange for Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard divides the community and creates unsafe conditions for pedestrians and drivers.
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To avoid traffic jams, the avenues that connect each sector of the city were designed without intersections; instead, the intersections have cloverleaf interchanges.
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“Traffic circle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traffic%20circle. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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