Last year, the traffic talk around Fruitland, MD, centered around the roundabout that was constructed at the intersection of Cedar Lane and Division Street. Many local motorists fretted over the possibility that we would not know how to circumnavigate such a complex engineering project. The naysayers are quiet now, and it seems that we have survived a year of school buses and trucks and everyday traffic passing through the new roundabout. The feature is much more friendly to pedestrians, and when the power goes out, law enforcement agencies don’t have to worry about dispatching an officer to control the intersection. Roundabouts are effective traffic control features, and it seems that Fruitland was out front in the roundabout game. Residents of Montgomery County, MD, are currently witnessing the construction of several roundabouts, including three in the Deer Park neighborhood. According to Just Up the Pike, local citizens are glad to have them. There are lots of cliches about change. Changes aren’t permanent, but change is. The more things change, the more they stay the same. In the case of the Fruitland roundabout, change was a good thing.