For the second time in less than a month, a sharply divided Martha’s Vineyard Commission voted Thursday night to back the controversial roundabout plan for the blinker intersection in Oak Bluffs. With chairman Chris Murphy again casting the deciding vote, the commission deadlocked 6-6 over whether to rescind its first 7-6 vote to approve the roundabout. The move to rescind was led by commissioner Leonard Jason Jr., an outspoken opponent of the project. At a meeting that saw impassioned speeches on both sides, in the end the commission stuck with its first decision.

“I just think we’re sending the wrong kind of message,” said Mr. Jason Jr. “We really didn’t approve a plan. I think we approved a concept,” he said.

But commissioner John Breckenridge had another view. “At the end of the day I made a decision and voted yes on the roundabout and I’m proud of it,” he said.

A complete story about the MVC vote will appear in the Friday Gazette.