 Whether you love them or hate them, another roundabout is about to make its way to Brainerd. In January, the Brainerd City Council approved a project to put a roundabout at the intersection of 4th and Jackson Street as well as extending a median from James to Jackson Street. After a road study was conducted in 2016, it was found that a high number of crashes occur at the James and 4th Street intersection as many vehicles try to make a left-hand turn. Along with reducing the number of crashes, the project also plans to add a pedestrian corridor to 4th Street. The state is funding nearly three-quarters of the project through its local road improvement program. Left turns are just generally a bad movement for crashes, especially when they're crossing four lanes of traffic. So the inclusion of the median only allows right-hand turns, which are generally not a conflicting movement to traffic. And then the roundabout is a way for the people that have to turn right and head back the other direction to get turned around and go the other way. The city is hopeful that construction will begin in the spring of 2020.