Form Follows Function. What's The Function of the Boothbay Roundabout?

Placing a roundabout in an unobstructed thruway serves no sensible traffic function- so what is the function?

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(Truth told with fictional license)

As global war erupts, on the local front we confront the scepter of weaponized landscaping. We could call it the War of the Petunias, the politics of perception, but as much as flower power insists, it’s not polite society.

The assault against economic development artist, Lester Spear, the protagonist of our story, continues. Spear has become the figurehead of the grassroots working-class entrepreneurial community in Boothbay. It’s class warfare on the Peninsula.

The antagonists, the Thibodeaus, representing the party of the new, lead the assault against Lester Spear. The Thibodeaus moved to the region to be close to the Botanical Gardens and the Common which they say is iconic and should stay iconic according to their wishes. They say it is an unpleasantry to see a food vendor’s truck and advocate the banning of food trucks from the Common, to keep it natural, as they perceive natural to be, cultivated landscaping reflective of the w…