Online poll: Cayman National is favourite

Cayman National has the prettiest of the Cayman’s dual-carriage roundabouts according to the results of last week’s caycompass.com online poll. 

Of the 511 total respondents, 218 – 42.7 per cent – thought the Cayman National – sponsored roundabout at the intersection of Elgin Avenue, Huldah Avenue and Thomas Russell Avenue in George Town was prettiest. 

“Cayman National is amazing,” said one person. “I don’t understand the Tomlinson roundabout. It is distracting and odd.” 

“While Cayman National is the nicest, the Tomlinson Group’s leaves me asking: ‘What the heck?’” said someone else. “The idea of making a roundabout inviting for people to explore is nothing short of crazy! You may as well park an ambulance there full-time, especially when the tourists come off the cruise ships in Spotts and look left instead of right when they walk into it.”  

“Please don’t allow cheap neon signs on these,” said another person. 

The Tomlinson Group’s roundabout at the intersection of the East-West Arterial and Shamrock Road in Prospect came in a distant second, with 94 people – 18.4 per cent – saying it was prettiest. 

“It is new and fresh,” said one person. 

The Island Heritage roundabout on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway just north of the Strand Shopping Plaza was the prettiest for 92 respondents, or 18 per cent. 

“I do like the Cayman National roundabout at Christmas time, but the Island Heritage roundabout reflects Cayman more,” said one person. 

“The way idiot drivers negotiate roundabouts on this island, drivers shouldn’t be looking at what’s inside the roundabout, but most of all of the ones mentioned have their charms,” said someone else. “Kudos to the companies that sponsor the roundabout beautifications!” 

“Island Heritage is the nicest because it incorporates native plants and trees, some of which are found only in Grand Cayman and nowhere else in the world,” said another person. 

Thirty-five people thought the Butterfield roundabout at the intersection of the Esterley Tibbetts Highway, North Sound Road and Godfrey Nixon Way was the prettiest, and 17 people – 3.3 per cent – thought the Century 21-sponsored roundabout on the Esterley Tibbetts Highway behind the Galleria Plaza was prettiest. 

“I find them all beautiful and think it is awesome for these groups to pay for their beautification,” said one person.  

A large segment of respondents – 55 people or 10.8 per cent – responded “I don’t know’ to the question, with many of them objecting to the question. 

“Come on, Caymanian Compass,” said one person. “I am usually a rather fond responder to your poll questions but really? This is what you choose to have public opinion vote on and determine? The prettiest roundabout in Cayman? What’s next? Which judge has the best cropped wig? Seriously, there are too many important and undeniably serious issues that the public should be encouraged to get involved in and your institution is usually one of the better at performing that social/civic duty.” 

“This was the most relevant poll you could come up with?” asked someone else. 

“Nothing is pretty in Grand Cayman when death is in the air,” said another respondent. 

Next week’s poll question 

Who do you blame the most for Grand Cayman’s rise in gang crime? 

The police 

The elected government 

Parents 

The schools 

Expatriates 

Other [specify in comments] 

To participate in this poll, please visit www.caycompass.com.