--- title: "Meet ‘Rhonda the Roundabout,’ The Traffic Feature With Its Own Theme Song and Fan Page" description: "The city of Clarksville, TN has been having a laugh watching drivers get flummoxed by its first roundabout—and it's only been open two days." date: "2024-08-08" modified: "2024-08-08" authors: - name: "Andrew P. Collins" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/andrew-p-collins" url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/meet-rhonda-the-roundabout-the-traffic-feature-with-its-own-theme-song-and-fan-page" categories: - "News" --- # Meet ‘Rhonda the Roundabout,’ The Traffic Feature With Its Own Theme Song and Fan Page ![Rhonda the roundabout in Clarksville, TN.]() *\Clarksville, TN traffic cam\* The good people of Clarksville, Tennessee seem to love turning pieces of infrastructure into local heroes. I'm here for it. Years ago, one particular guardrail there kept getting crashed into, and so "Gary the Guardrail" was named and celebrated. Gary's Facebook fan page doesn't seem to be up anymore, but "Rhonda the Roundabout," [a new traffic flow feature]() in town, has stepped into the limelight thanks to a live-streaming traffic cam that's caught the wacky antics of people getting lost on it. Clarksville is northwest of Nashville, right under the Kentucky line. Rhonda is the new intersection of Whitfield Road and Needmore Road there. It's so new that Google Maps is still displaying it as the regular old intersection it used to be. [![]()]() ![]() To me, it doesn't look all that unusual. And indeed, local news pub [*Clarksville Now*]() reports that most traffic has been flowing without incident. “The preponderance of folks know how to navigate these features, but it only takes a few to create a slowdown if they are unfamiliar,” David Smith, Street Department director, told the outlet. So, why are we talking about it at all? That traffic cam I mentioned—[which you can peek at here]()—has apparently caught people getting confused going the wrong way and, more hilariously, doing *laps.* As of Thursday, August 8, Rhonda's Facebook fans have clocked the top three "high scores" of 50 laps (gray SUV), 25 laps (three motorcycles), and 21 laps (red pickup truck). Surely those people were just having fun, or eager to test out the new blacktop. Big *European Vacation* vibes. Is anybody reading this old enough to remember that movie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAgX6qlJEMc Anyway, back in Tennessee, Rhonda opened just two days ago on August 6 and already has [its own Facebook page]() (5.5K members, as of this writing). It even has [a theme song]() which I assume was created with AI, but it kind of slaps all the same. It's at least as good as any pop-country song from the last decade, right? Time to gas the truck up, crank this track up, and spin around Rhonda until you *throw* up. Shoot, that could be another verse! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN0Ew3Kmhhc *Got tips? Send ’em to tips@thedrive.com* ## Author As Executive Editor, Andrew touches everything on the site from daily news coverage to feature stories, sponsored content, product reviews, road testing vehicles, ecommerce, and more. He's held pretty much every role there is to have at an automotive news site and has been with The Drive's publisher Recurrent since 2020. Andrew's a lifetime gearhead and longtime writer with a particularly strong penchant for road trips, off-road adventures, and archaic vehicles. His passions outside of the automotive world include skiing, obsolete video games, and his dog Bramble who occationally helps review cars. ### Author social links [Instagram]() [LinkedIn]()