MOULTRIE, Ga. — When the Georgia Department of Transportation discussed a roundabout at Highway 37 and Cool Springs Road with the Colquitt County Commission two weeks ago, The Observer’s coverage of the proposal generated a massive response on Facebook.

Both supporters and opponents voiced their opinions, although it seemed more comments criticized the proposal than supported it.

Here’s a sampling of the comments. See them all at The Moultrie Observer’s Facebook page.

Christina Henderson: I feel like a red light would be better here because of semis that use this intersection. I’m sure those roundabouts are a pain for them.

Tim McFarland (Reply): You are exactly right. During peak hours it is a pain in the butt for us to pull out into a roundabout when the traffic just keeps coming. They put a roundabout there it won’t be long people will be complaining about trucks pulling out in front of them, but they don’t realize sometimes you have no choice when the traffic just keeps coming at you.

Lacey English: I think this intersection is way too busy for a roundabout!

Tommy Kenyon: What’s broken about the four-way stop that is there now? Nothing in my opinion, so the only reason to change it is because idiots don’t know how to successfully navigate through a four-way stop, so you’re suggesting to spend taxpayer money to assist absolute idiots to pass through an intersection, that’s the Moultrie way for you.

Brad Ruis (Reply): Actually it’s the state doing this. … so it would be the state’s way not the Moultrie way.

Brad Ruis: I live on this road and I believe a large roundabout like we now have at the Rich Oil intersection would be wonderful! A roundabout that size works well with the semis and would keep the traffic flowing.

Ryan Burgess (Reply): Well the roundabout at Rich Oil works horribly with semis so …

Sherry Walker Ruis: Roundabouts work wonderful with all types of vehicles if the driver knows what he’s doing.

Dianna Hampton Flowers: Seems like a redlight would be so much better for that intersection, but I know that the state will do what they want and doesn’t care what people that live there want.

Michael Snyder: Roundabouts are great at increasing traffic flow, the problem is most people don’t know how to use them or understand the concept of YIELD.

Amber Willis Sullivan: I have noticed at the Rich Oil roundabout, many people do not understand yield. They stop, sit, and wait. Forever. It should be smooth traffic flow, not sitting and waiting to see if anyone is coming a mile away.

Bob Dorough: Moultrie doesn’t need roundabouts. It needs smarter drivers.

Ragan Ringsrud: When people know how to use roundabouts, they are wonderful.

Chris Smith: Most of ya’ll would be lost in a larger city or European country if a roundabout is too difficult to figure out. Geeze If you can understand the concept of YIELD you should be able to figure out how to use this simple intersection and no way does a red light provide better traffic flow not even close.

Lisa Swinson Tillery: Really? Why spend so much money when a simple red light would suffice?? I’m quite certain there are better ways to utilize the money.

Priscillia Swinson Ward (Reply): Lol. Heck Lisa Swinson Tillery we are moving up in the world. I love roundabouts. We had them in Germany and the traffic went great. Well except the first time I got on one…. Got a little dizzy and car sick because I didn’t want to get off.

Lisa Swinson Tillery: I’d rather see the potholes fixed myself.

Melanie May Williams: A roundabout with the congestion in the morning of the highschool kids going through there … disaster.

Leonard Craig McMurphy II: Cost way too much. Be better off paving some roads around Moultrie with all that money they’ll spend by making a roundabout.

Rena Lindsey: No roundabout at this intersection. Save the money for something else that really needs to done in Moultrie. We travel in this area several times a day. The four-way stop seems to be working fine on most days. Traffic seems to move fairly good. No roundabout!

Bettie R. Johnson: No, no roundabout. Why even try to fix something that’s working fine? If you want to spend the money spend it on something that is really needed.

Gail Darby Thompson: Too many SEMIS. I go that way to CCHS all the time. Needs widening, a red light with turn signal. Not roundabout.

Kim Thompson: Traffic light is needed, not a roundabout. Mainly because half of the county still doesn’t know how to navigate through them. 4-way stops seem to be complicated for some people as well…so a traffic light is definitely needed.

James Kinnett: They don’t build roundabouts big enough for trucks. Experienced that in a lot of states.

Jay White: I love the roundabouts! Make things much smoother.

Sherry Walker Ruis: A roundabout would be great. I love them, so does my 83 year old mom. Traffic studies will be done and it will be built large enough to accommodate the type of traffic that comes through that area, including semis.

Sierra Rain Bullard: CCHS students do not know how to drive on a roundabout.

Tammy Worrell McHan (Reply): Most of the students I’ve seen act like they don’t know how to drive at all.

Heather Gay: The first roundabout sucks. It’s too small. Love the  one by Rich Oil but I do not think a roundabout would be a good idea on 37 and Cool Springs. The 4-way works perfect; it’s an easy flow for a 4-way.

Tonya Osborne: A red light with turning lanes because a roundabout wouldn’t be good because people in Moultrie and Colquitt County don’t know how to use blinkers to let others know when they are turning so they don’t know when to go at a roundabout.

Astrid Palomares: Yes! We need more roundabouts. They’re very efficient in keeping traffic moving, do not need a lot of maintenance, and there’s no energy bills. They are used extensively throughout the world. If people in other countries can use them so can we.