[nfitz]

I wouldn't call the ones with stop lines before entering, roundabouts. We used to call those traffic circles.

 

[reaperexpress]

There are 19 now on Regional roads in the Region of Waterloo - http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/gettingaround/roundabouts.asp

I've spotted several on local roads as well in the City of Waterloo - they seem to be increasingly common there on roads at shopping centres and around big box store areas.

Update 10 years later: by my count there are 112 roundabouts in Waterloo Region, of which 47 are on Regional roads:

Here's a comparison of the per-capita roundabout prevalence in a selection of areas:

Waterloo Region's number of roundabouts per capita is closer to the Netherlands' than it is to Toronto's. But Waterloo actually uses roundabouts in places where the Netherlands would use a traffic signal, namely large intersections with lots of traffic and pedestrians crossing at-grade. The Netherlands has far more single-lane roundabouts, often in rural areas. There are surprisingly few roundabouts in rural areas in Waterloo Region considering how much safer they are in that context and how much experience the Region has with building roundabouts.

For example, all of the roundabouts in Rotterdam are single-lane roundabouts, except 3 multi-lane roundabouts in the port which are all 2+1 lanes (2 lanes on the main street, 1 on the side street). There are some 2+2 (or more) lane roundabouts in the city, but they're all signalized so I don't count them in the total.

 

[ZEBuilder]

Update 10 years later: by my count there are 105 roundabouts in Waterloo Region, of which 47 are on Regional roads:
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Here's a comparison of the per-capita roundabout prevalence in a selection of areas:
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Waterloo Region's number of roundabouts per capita is closer to the Netherlands' than it is to Toronto's. But Waterloo actually uses roundabouts in places where the Netherlands would use a traffic signal, namely large intersections with lots of traffic and pedestrians crossing at-grade. The Netherlands has far more single-lane roundabouts, often in rural areas. There are surprisingly few roundabouts in rural areas in Waterloo Region considering how much safer they are in that context and how much experience the Region has with building roundabouts.

The crazy thing is the Region still has way more roundabouts in construction/design.

This year alone they would have built 5 more. Two of those are on the map (Bleams at Trussler and Bleams at Isaiah) then 3 others aren't on the map. They're at Ottawa at Westmount, New Dundee at Robert Ferrie, and Hespeler at Maple Grove (one of the main truck routes to Toyota).

Then last year but missing from the map are Fountain at Maple Grove (other main truck route to Toyota), Wilson at the Bleams Rd extension and a rural roundabout at Trussler and 97 (Cedar Creek Rd).

Then for projects within KWC that are contemplated in an EA/in detailed design/waiting for construction by the Region or one of KWC you have: Fischer Hallman at New Dundee, New Dundee at the Strasburg Rd Extension (this is waiting on Kitchener from my understanding), Ottawa at Trussler, Goodrich at Wabanaki, Goodrich at the River Rd extension, Franklin at Can-Amera, Franklin at Elgin, Saginaw at Green Vista, Maple Grove at Beaverdale, Erb St at the Canadian Tire entrance, East Boundary Rd at Gore, East Boundary Rd at Clyde, East Boundary Rd at Main, East Boundary Rd at Wesley, East Boundary Rd at Dundas, McQueen Shaver at Branchton.

There will be a pile of developer led projects containing roundabouts in KWC, many of which will be in the New Dundee Secondary Plan area (lands are owned by Schlegel, Branthaven and Activa) and what's left of the Rosenberg Secondary Plan lands (Mattamy Homes and Schlegel), then a couple of odd ones in Waterloo (along Conservation) and Cambridge in a smattering of places.

Then for projects in the townships that are contemplated are Roseville Rd at Dickie Settlement, Sawmill Rd at Ebycrest, Roseville Rd at Edworthy and Synder's at Nafziger. There are two in Elmira that are subject to council approval that will likely get the go ahead as well. Then there's whatever comes of the Elmira bypass which may include some roundabouts.

There will also be a bunch of developer led projects with roundabouts in the townships thanks to the East Side Lands and the various subdivisions going in around Breslau and New Hamburg.

All in all there's easily going to be another 30 roundabouts just on Regional Roads and way more in subdivisions in South Kitchener.

 

[reaperexpress]

The crazy thing is the Region still has way more roundabouts in construction/design.

This year alone they would have built 5 more. Two of those are on the map (Bleams at Trussler and Bleams at Isaiah) then 3 others aren't on the map. They're at Ottawa at Westmount, New Dundee at Robert Ferrie, and Hespeler at Maple Grove (one of the main truck routes to Toyota).

Then last year but missing from the map are Fountain at Maple Grove (other main truck route to Toyota), Wilson at the Bleams Rd extension and a rural roundabout at Trussler and 97 (Cedar Creek Rd).

Then for projects within KWC that are contemplated in an EA/in detailed design/waiting for construction by the Region or one of KWC you have: Fischer Hallman at New Dundee, New Dundee at the Strasburg Rd Extension (this is waiting on Kitchener from my understanding), Ottawa at Trussler, Goodrich at Wabanaki, Goodrich at the River Rd extension, Franklin at Can-Amera, Franklin at Elgin, Saginaw at Green Vista, Maple Grove at Beaverdale, Erb St at the Canadian Tire entrance, East Boundary Rd at Gore, East Boundary Rd at Clyde, East Boundary Rd at Main, East Boundary Rd at Wesley, East Boundary Rd at Dundas, McQueen Shaver at Branchton.

There will be a pile of developer led projects containing roundabouts in KWC, many of which will be in the New Dundee Secondary Plan area (lands are owned by Schlegel, Branthaven and Activa) and what's left of the Rosenberg Secondary Plan lands (Mattamy Homes and Schlegel), then a couple of odd ones in Waterloo (along Conservation) and Cambridge in a smattering of places.

Then for projects in the townships that are contemplated are Roseville Rd at Dickie Settlement, Sawmill Rd at Ebycrest, Roseville Rd at Edworthy and Synder's at Nafziger. There are two in Elmira that are subject to council approval that will likely get the go ahead as well. Then there's whatever comes of the Elmira bypass which may include some roundabouts.

There will also be a bunch of developer led projects with roundabouts in the townships thanks to the East Side Lands and the various subdivisions going in around Breslau and New Hamburg.

All in all there's easily going to be another 30 roundabouts just on Regional Roads and way more in subdivisions in South Kitchener.

Thank you for all those! I'll add the U/C or existing ones to my map and keep an eye out for the planned ones.

 

[drum118]

Mississauga has 3 more plan that I am aware of and they will be duel lanes. One is at Rathburn Rd W and Sq One Dr and not sure what they plan on doing with the current traffic lights a block away at Elnora Dr. The second one is at Rathburn Rd E at Shipp Dr that will see the future Sq One Dr extension coming in on an angle or a 5 road intersection. The 3rd one is at Central Pkwy and Bloor St that will not be a normal one with the southbound-westbound a lot straighter at this time. They should put in one at Cliff Rd and Central Pkwy to cut down on the speeders of Central Pkwy. The city looked at one for Mississauga Valley Blvd, but land was an issue for it and was killed.

There was talk about one at Confederation and Sq One Dr and it maybe dead now, now the LRT will be using Confederation for the loop in place of Duke of York. They maybe more, but don't follow road construction.

Have used a number of Waterloo Region roundabouts with no issues other running into drivers who are unsure how to use it like other places that use them with the same issues.

Ran in to a fair number in the US the last few years and becoming very common with 2 lanes.

 

[afransen]

Mississauga has 3 more plan that I am aware of and they will be duel lanes. One is at Rathburn Rd W and Sq One Dr and not sure what they plan on doing with the current traffic lights a block away at Elnora Dr. The second one is at Rathburn Rd E at Shipp Dr that will see the future Sq One Dr extension coming in on an angle or a 5 road intersection. The 3rd one is at Central Pkwy and Bloor St that will not be a normal one with the southbound-westbound a lot straighter at this time. They should put in one at Cliff Rd and Central Pkwy to cut down on the speeders of Central Pkwy. The city looked at one for Mississauga Valley Blvd, but land was an issue for it and was killed.

There was talk about one at Confederation and Sq One Dr and it maybe dead now, now the LRT will be using Confederation for the loop in place of Duke of York. They maybe more, but don't follow road construction.

Have used a number of Waterloo Region roundabouts with no issues other running into drivers who are unsure how to use it like other places that use them with the same issues.

Ran in to a fair number in the US the last few years and becoming very common with 2 lanes.

The multilane four way stops in the Square one area are madness. Roundabouts would make more sense.

 

[sixrings]

The multilane four way stops in the Square one area are madness. Roundabouts would make more sense.

I actively drive down that street beside the mall just for the roundabout. That’s weird but it’s one less stop.

 

[BrenWilson]

The thing with 2 lane round-abouts is that they *really* suck for pedestrians. If the area around square one is designed to become more of an urban core then they'll need signals eventually. Roundabouts and pedestrians should only mix when the car volumes are low which precludes any multi-lane set-up, and should be radial designs. Sadly this is not how canadian design guides work and we'll get 2 lane tangential designs with dangerous ped crossings until someone who doesn't primarily drive gets into the right job.

 

[jamincan]

Update 10 years later: by my count there are 105 roundabouts in Waterloo Region, of which 47 are on Regional roads:
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I think you may even still be missing some - notably, Hespeler & Beaverdale/Queen has been a 2-lane roundabout for some time now, and they are in the process of constructing one (likely 2-lane) at Hespeler and Maple Grove.

 

[jamincan]

Waterloo Region's number of roundabouts per capita is closer to the Netherlands' than it is to Toronto's. But Waterloo actually uses roundabouts in places where the Netherlands would use a traffic signal, namely large intersections with lots of traffic and pedestrians crossing at-grade. The Netherlands has far more single-lane roundabouts, often in rural areas. There are surprisingly few roundabouts in rural areas in Waterloo Region considering how much safer they are in that context and how much experience the Region has with building roundabouts.

Wellington County has actually been building a number on rural intersections, but there are a bunch in Grey County and Waterloo Region as well. Without trying to be exhaustive, these are a few I'm aware of that are in rural areas:

Edit:

I immediately recalled a bunch that I forgot on Wellington 34 and I know there are also several in the rural areas east of Guelph too.

 

[sixrings]

The thing with 2 lane round-abouts is that they *really* suck for pedestrians. If the area around square one is designed to become more of an urban core then they'll need signals eventually. Roundabouts and pedestrians should only mix when the car volumes are low which precludes any multi-lane set-up, and should be radial designs. Sadly this is not how canadian design guides work and we'll get 2 lane tangential designs with dangerous ped crossings until someone who doesn't primarily drive gets into the right job.

Duke of York, living arts, square one drive all fit the roundabout criteria.

 

[BrenWilson]

Duke and Square One is already one, at least they reduced the lanes to a single lane except for that one right turn. However I still see roundabouts as primarily driven by keeping automobile traffic flowing, they reduce the pedestrian right-of-way to a yield vs a signal. A couple of these are already signalized, but they aren't ped friendly either. The ideal scenario for these is a signalized intersection with turn restrictions and smaller radii but they are likely still designed to accomodate full sized freight trucks so any solution is going to be poor right now.

 

[nfitz]

A timely announcement this morning about a new MTO roundabout on Highway 15 in Crosby (east of Westport).

Ontario Newsroom

news.ontario.ca

 

[afransen]

I drove cross country in France (Paris to the Cote d'Azur) and France is chockablock with rural roundabouts. It's quite something. Even the rural concession type roads, you have a roundabout every few hundred meters in some cases. I still have vivid memories of Google Maps saying "in 400 m, at the roundabout, take the second exit to continue on Rue de la whatever" for quite a long time. Was tempted to turn off the turn by turn but worried about missing the eventual turn.

 

[reaperexpress]

I've updated the map in my earlier post to include the updates noted by @ZEBuilder. There are now 112 roundabouts in Waterloo Region.

I think you may even still be missing some - notably, Hespeler & Beaverdale/Queen has been a 2-lane roundabout for some time now, and they are in the process of constructing one (likely 2-lane) at Hespeler and Maple Grove.

Hespeler & Queen was already in my layer, not sure why it was missing from the map. Anyway it's there now.