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The traffic circle on 9th street has been full of holes for several years now. With it being a city bus and school bus area plus all the traffic from all directions going to Maryland and Crocus school you would hope this would be a priority to be repaired but apparently not. Is there anyone else out there that feels the same. I have contacted the city councillor for the area but did not get a reply.

Yes i agree with you an i was just thinking about it this week.  
Its getting really bad , pot holes all over the place .  
Even south on 9th after the traffic circle is getting bad .  
If nothing done this year , i wonder what it will be like this up coming spring .

Instead they are repaving what was a perfectly fine Princess Ave East.. that was repaved not that long ago if I recall correctly? Maybe 3 years ago? Rosser East made sense, it was in rough shape! Anyone know the reasoning for repaving Princess East?

I'm just thinking out loud here, but with 1st street closed for the construction of a new traffic circle at the intersection of 1st Street and Maryland Avenue, closing down the traffic circle at 9th and Maryland would have created a disaster for traffic in that area.

Yes the traffic circle needs to be replaced. They also need to improve road conditions on Maryland from the traffic circle to 1st street traffic circle. They need to redo the road infrastructure in that area.  
 
City of Brandon have poor decision made for this area. The neighborhood have been complaining, especially those that used to have a quite street, now have a very busy street during peak hours.  
 
Stop spending money and giving away money to non-essential things for brandon and start repairing road properly!

I am assuming the traffic is a result of the school being there.  
 
What sort of steps could the City take to reduce traffic on a street that services a high school, a curling club and an elementary school?

And consider that between the two schools, there is close to 2000 students who come to that stretch of road on a daily basis.  
 
It's pretty quiet there during non-peak times.  
 
I think the traffic circles (the existing one on 9th and the new one on 1st) are reasonable compromises to keep traffic flowing. I went through the 1st & Maryland intersection daily for the past 2 years, and often thought it could use lights, but then it's pretty dead during non-peak times.