I’m not anti-roundabout but for $15 million could they have made it a highway interchange instead, raising one road, lowering the other to go under? Looking online it seems like it’d cost about the same amount for an interchange.
They do intend to build a highway interchange, but noted that since it will be at least 2028 before it’s finished, that they wanted to put in an immediate safety mitigation to reduce crashes for the next 5-10 years while that’s planned and built.