Over the last several months I have overcome my fear of facing new driving situations and learned to drive through the three traffic circles on the fastest route from my house to my daughter's and to the school two of my grandchildren attend. The difference between using the traffic circle route and a parallel route, that in the same eight mile stretch has nine traffic light intersections, is twelve minutes. I can make the traffic circle stretch in 13 minutes, the traffic light road takes 25 minutes (on a good day), so I've become a convert to the efficiency of the traffic circle.
But now, within two weeks, I will have a new driving challenge to face - a diverging diamond intersection - a new configuration at the junction of Interstate 69 and Dupont Road. A diverging diamond?? I've studied the diagrams printed in the local newspaper and I still don't understand how this will work. My brother assures me it will be easy and wonderful but I'm still skeptical. Will I learn this new trick? Only time will tell.
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