Talk:Columbus Circle
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[edit] First traffic circle in America?
Are you sure of this? Pierre L'Enfant sprinkled maybe a dozen circles into Washington DC during Jeffersonian times. If this article is correct on Columbus Circle being built in 1905 with no circle there before, something's wrong. IvyGold 02:40, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
No responses, I chopped that reference out.
Here's L'Enfant's map of DC, circa 1802:
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Cities/wld/05830/05830a.jpg
My bet is that traffic circles are sui generis. There's no way to determine which was the first in the USA.
IvyGold 03:35, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
