> Roundabouts generally make streets safer for pedestrians as they slow the flow of traffic

They may be safer and reduce top speed when traffic is low but otherwise improve flow so that pedestrians have less opportunity to cross.

It's normal to have pedestrian crossings at our plentiful roundabouts in the UK. If they are particularly busy or multi-lane, they will also have traffic lights to stop traffic just for the pedestrian's benefit.

Are they going to add any crosswalks back?

Where else would it go based on where the curb cuts are?

The logical thing in this case seems to be to make the crosswalks an X pattern: have them go right through the roundabout.

Could probably add a mid-block crosswalk for crossing to the other side. I doubt that’s what will be done, but it seems like that could work.

>Roundabouts generally make streets safer for pedestrians as they slow the flow of traffic.

I wonder--if it's a busy roundabout. There's a lot going on and drivers are looking at traffic in the roundabout and in the upcoming entrance to the roundabout and mentally calculating if it's safe to merge in. At one particularly busy pair of local roundabouts (aka "the twin doughnuts of death") there's actually been a pedestrian/cyclist stop light installed because otherwise you'd be taking your life in your hands to get across the road.

Can you really call it a roundabout if they left the stop signs?

Some bureaucrat probably decided that too large a proportion of people wouldn't understand that you're supposed to yield to the traffic in the roundabout (and that a yield sign would somehow be insufficient) hence the creation of a "dual purpose roundabout and fishing stop pretext/revenue generator".

Nope. That would be a traffic circle.

> Roundabouts generally make streets safer for pedestrians as they slow the flow of traffic

This is rubbish. Roundabouts are a lot harder to cross, and more unsafe.