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Posted: Saturday, September 14, 2013 6:32 pm  To The Editor:
This letter concerns the roundabout on Washington Avenue and
Independence Drive.  It did not need a roundabout since there
was no bottleneck traffic. I spoke to various people and told
them the roundabout would not work there for the trucks.  The
Missourian had articles about the location of axles on some
trucks, but some trailers have axles that are stationary and you
cannot move them.  It is a safety hazard and would break up the
concrete on the roundabout.  It would be no use to tell the
aldermen or the engineers as they think they know everything
since they have their certificate.  Now they have to tear it
out.  The Missourian stated that the city does not have to pay
for the redo and I hope this is correc