Tips For Riding Through Roundabouts?
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RE: Tips For Riding Through Roundabouts?
ORIGINAL: Gaffy52
Once you master just one roundabout - you may then graduate to this one:
The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, was constructed in 1972 and consists of one large roundabout containing five mini-roundabouts.
It is an innovative system which was constructed after consultation with the British Road Research Laboratory. Traffic flow around the smaller, inner roundabout is actually anti-clockwise, whereas traffic flows in the usual clockwise manner around the five mini-roundabouts and the outer loop.
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Why would you do that - it's a cluster f**k!
Once you master just one roundabout - you may then graduate to this one:
The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, was constructed in 1972 and consists of one large roundabout containing five mini-roundabouts.
It is an innovative system which was constructed after consultation with the British Road Research Laboratory. Traffic flow around the smaller, inner roundabout is actually anti-clockwise, whereas traffic flows in the usual clockwise manner around the five mini-roundabouts and the outer loop.
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Why would you do that - it's a cluster f**k!
Been there, done that! Ever been down to Poole in Dorset? They have variable timed stoplights at the bigger roundabouts. They changed the layout of the Stony Lane one in Christchurch and it caused so many accidents that they had to change it back! All it really requires is that everybody follow the rules, not a strong point \\; of most folk when it comes to driving. When everybody cooperates they work fantasic compared to a normal junction. However, these days it's all about me me me, I'm in a hurry and too busy eating/talking/drinking/watching DVDs, etc. to give a flying fork about the rest of the world. AS for another motorsit mistaking eye contact for permission to pull out in front of me:
(a) What eyes contact? Most never look where they're going at all
(b) I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times anybody has had the decency to let me out into busy traffic!
This is a lot more common in the UK, hence my reluctance to run lights in the daytime over there. On a rough road (most UK roads) your light is going to look like you're running a modulator and some dip might mistake it for the more common flashing of the lights for permission to enter in front of you!
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