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Oh, boy...a yuppified Apponaug, complete with nothing we haven't seen all our lives...

Roundabouts are nothing more than dressed-up rotaries, and the success of rotaries by any name is contingent on local driving habits. Rhode Islanders have shown time and time again that they are incapable of adapting to even the slightest adverse situation (which is why the current one-way loop didn't work), and that our DOT is equally-incapable of designing and/or building compatible highway systems (cases in point - the 6-10 Connector downtown, the incredible number of partial exits/entrances, the entrance to I-95 south from the area of Point Street, and, more locally, the Greenwood Bridge rebuild without an exit ramp from the bypass' northbound lanes to Main Avenue and the Jefferson Boulevard intersection).

The videos shown by the DOT at the initial public show-and-tell a few years ago justified roundabouts, or rotaries, or whatever the flavor-of-the-month name is today, as a design intended to slow traffic down. Had the DOT actually gotten off their cushy seats and out of their remote offices, they might have noticed that Apponaug traffic, from Centreville and Tollgate Roads all the way to the Bank of America, was already going very slow, and needs no design to make it go slower.