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The Great Roundabout Uprising: How One Small Town's Traffic Circle Became the Most Divisive Infrastructure Project Since the Berlin Wall (According to Facebook, Anyway)

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When a quiet Indiana town replaced a four-way stop with a roundabout, nobody expected it to unleash a three-year cold war between neighbors, spawn seventeen competing Facebook groups, or produce a man who now drives forty minutes out of his way on principle. It turns out the circle is not just a shape — it is a threat to freedom, a foreign concept, and somehow, a political statement.
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