roundabouts

by **fat cherry** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:59 am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13863498

You'll be starting to call taps 'taps' next, instead of that funny word you use.

by **Mr. Brian** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:15 pm

I was just in a small US roundabout so the rules are simple because it is just one lane but it has a few blind spots and people seem baffled by it in general. They stop in it and wave other cars in or turn the wrong way. It's pretty funny.

by **In The Margins** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:52 pm

In New England, we call them "rotaries."

If you want some fun, there's a great one in Revere, Mass., where Route 60 and Route 107 intersect. There's no such thing as yielding or showing any weakness when driving in that rotary. Good times.

by **Mr. Brian** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:56 pm

I think they call them traffic circles here in Ohio. I saw one once that had tire tracks right through the middle of it.

by **moses (2)** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:49 pm

In The Margins wrote:In New England, we call them "rotaries."

If you want some fun, there's a great one in Revere, Mass., where Route 60 and Route 107 intersect. There's no such thing as yielding or showing any weakness when driving in that rotary. Good times.

Here in Irleland we got rid of our most famous roundabout - the one at the red cow
it was an interchagne with our two busiest roads -- the M50 motorway and the Naas daul carriageway

they had to put lights on it

it was so bad it was named the mad cow roundabout

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cow_interchange

and this is what it now looks like

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/18947980

by **fat cherry** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:39 am

which way round do you drive in the us then?

by **Voodoo Billy** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:10 am

Whichever damn way they choose for they are the USofA.

by **JackT** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:20 am

fat cherry wrote:which way round do you drive in the us then?

Counter-clockwise.

by **fat cherry** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 8:51 am

that would make sense.

by **Dr Cheese** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:44 am

JackT wrote:Counter-clockwise.

Surely you mean anti-clockwise?

by **fat cherry** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:30 pm

have you got one like this?

http://www.swindonweb.com/index.asp?m=8&s=115&ss=289

by **Ivan** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:37 pm

fat cherry wrote:have you got one like this?

http://www.swindonweb.com/index.asp?m=8&s=115&ss=289

Does that thing come with a user's manual?

by **Ivan** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:38 pm

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoe ... tions.html

by **moses (2)** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:41 am

Ivan wrote:Does that thing come with a user's manual?

that is not a roundabout - that is art or is it one of those crop circles

by **fat cherry** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:32 am

been there a few times and from the air the logic's kind of obvious (not that i've flown over it, just that piccie), but tea time on a friday night at ground level its a bit of a mare. First timers tend to go round the outide and the locals drive straight across.

PC Steve Dudley, one of the police officers involved with the introduction of the new system, recalled: "There was someone from the RRL up on a crane and officers on each of the five junctions. We would let the traffic build up and then let one lot go at a time. After a few trial runs we let the whole lot go at once. It was quite nerve-racking, but it did work."

That website even has teeshirts. great. Secret is you go the proper way round the little ones but the wrong way round the big one. or just shut your eyes and hope for the best.

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