SALISBURY, Md. - There is a intersection in Salisbury off Route 50 that has several roads leading into it and 12 traffic lights regulating it.
Mount Hermon Road, Long Avenue, Truitt Street, East Williams Street, and Main Street all intersect at one central location.
People in the community have mixed feelings about the intersection. Some say it should be left alone because it regulates traffic just fine while others say it is a nuisance.
Ashley Hawk is a resident in the area and she said the intersection often interrupts her travels.
"You can't make a right on red. It's very difficult to make a left when you are on Main Street trying to turn on Mt. Hermon," Hawk said "Often times you will sit there through a whole green light before you can make that left."
There was a proposed idea to put in a single lane roundbabout at that intersection but it was stalled. It would have been similar to the one in Fruitland to regulate traffic but it wasn't seen as a priority.
Hawk agreed that the roundabout is a good idea.
"To keep everything going, no one would be sitting and waiting, it would keep the flow," Hawk said.
However residents like Jennifer Underwood said she thinks the intersection should stay the way it is.
"I think the intersection is fine the way it is. The lights regulate traffic, I mean sometimes you have to wait a little but iv'e never seen an accident,' Underwood said.
Mike Niederhauser, Roundabout Coordinator with the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration said roundabouts are proven to be safer than signaled intersections if they are properly designed.
Niederhauser said roundabouts lower the speed of cars and they keep traffic moving.
According to the Maryland State Highway Administration 4,441 cars pass through that intersection daily. There are about 1.6 million that pass through each year.
Currently this isn't a priority for the city or the state.
However, the city's top priority is to install one near downtown Salisbury.