Although long used in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe, roundabouts are fairly a new concept of traffic control in many areas of the United States.
According to the Tennessee Driverâs Handbook, a roundabout âis an intersection control device with traffic circulating around a central island.â
They are in use in many residential areas of Johnson City to help slow motorists and to discourage cut-through traffic. Roundabouts can also be found on the campus of East Tennessee State University and in Jonesborough and Kingsport.
Drivers often struggle with the rules for navigating a roundabout. Not surprisingly, these same motorists have difficulty in dealing with three-way stops.
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn took to Twitter last week to tear to shreds President Joe Bidenâs proposal to address jobs and infrastructure, what the White House calls The American Jobs Plan.
The senator objected to the cost of the $2 trillion package and took issue with the relative lack of attention the plan pays to roads and bridges, what Blackburn argued was true infrastructure.
Bidenâs plan, which includes $621 billion for transportation infrastructure like roads, bridges and electric vehicle-specific needs, $111 billion for clean drinking water, $100 billion for broadband expansion and $100 billion for power infrastructure, is a âTrojan horse for the radical left,â Blackburn explained.
A recent study by researchers from East Tennessee State University and Appalachian State University confirmed two things we journalists already knew about our industry.
For their work looking at the COVID-19 pandemicâs effects on news reporting, Dr. Mimi Perreault and Dr. Gregory Perreault interviewed working journalists and examined articles and discussions about journalism in industry-specific publications and websites.
What they found was, much like everyone else, the people who gather and report news are taking this yearlong pandemic day by day.
Before March of last year, we didnât know the term âsocial distancing,â and calculating seven-day averages was not something we could do so effortlessly. Since the start of the global pandemic, weâve had to learn new and complex concepts and then figure out how to explain them to our readers.
This is a dangerous time of the year for construction crews and motorists who fail to respect the rules of work zone safety.
Hereâs some simple advice for drivers to follow whenever they encounter an orange cone or see a âWork Zoneâ sign on a street or beside a highway: Slow down and begin merging into the appropriate lane as quickly as possible.
More than 1,000 Americans are killed in work zone accidents annually. Most work zone accidents are caused by drivers who speed or fail to yield the right of way.
There are a number of infrastructure and repaving projects going on in Johnson City now. Some of that work has impacted traffic flow this week as manhole rehabilitation continues in the downtown area.