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The Great Roundabout Wars: How One Traffic Circle Turned a Quiet Suburb Into a Battlefield, Produced Three Competing Facebook Groups, and Made a Retired PE Teacher Briefly Famous on CNN

Episode Summary

Somewhere between a minor infrastructure upgrade and a full civic meltdown, the roundabout became the most divisive shape in America. This week we dig into the surprisingly real, extensively documented culture war over traffic circles — why otherwise reasonable people will attend four consecutive city council meetings at 7pm on a Tuesday to scream about yield signs, and what it says about us that we will absolutely die on this hill, which, to be clear, does not have a stoplight.