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During my college years, all three of my siblings lived in Europe. Naturally, all of my vacations were spent visiting them, and I loved driving through roundabouts instead of having to stop at stop lights.  I’m sure the lack of traffic congestion would have struck me more if I had not grown up in rural Montana, where heavy traffic is scarce. The thing that impressed me most was how these roundabouts fit in with their community surroundings while providing better traffic control than traditional stop lights. 

It was not long after I started working at Reid Middleton that I was assigned to work on my first roundabout project. I was excited to see what I had thought had been strictly a European traffic control utilized effectively in the U.S., and to be part of it! Thus far in my engineering career, learning the theory behind roundabout design and then applying that theory has been the highlight. I have spent the last five years happily helping to develop methods to make roundabout design more efficient and to create plan sets that communicate these designs in a way that is understandable to the contractors.