Seeing all those roundabouts confused me when I first came to this country...
...but this is just beyond imagination..!
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Seeing all those roundabouts confused me when I first came to this country...
...but this is just beyond imagination..!
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We seem to be losing roundabouts up here in Scotland. There was a hellish roundabout junction over not far from Cumbernauld, but they are doing it up and making an over-pass thingy instead, with a plethora of slip roads.
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That just looks horrific. Can you imagine being a learner around there, and your test including it? Be like an automatic fail.
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On my 3 mile cycle to work I have to cross 9 roundabouts, seems like someone had a brainwave one day and everyone believed him
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All I know about roundabouts is they've got 'em in Guadalajara in Mexico and they are a pain in the ASS to navigate on foot. Because there are no crosswalks and no clear indication of which cars are going when. You never can know when a wall of traffic is going to come around the bend and plaster you.
And it's no IF, notice, but WHEN, because like I said there are no crosswalks and the cars are always moving in some direction.
But that may more just be a Mexico thing. I hate them, though.
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Ah, that would be the so called 'magic roundabout'. Seen it before. I agree, it is a bit ott, and whoever thought of it was obviously on something at the time, and must have slipped something into the tea at the meeting that agreed to build it, but apart from that monstrosity, roundabouts are okay. You can drive round and round, so if you miss your turn off, you just go round again.
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Indeed it is, my tyke friendAh, that would be the so called 'magic roundabout'
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I quite like roundabouts, actually (sensible ones of course). As MC says, if you miss your turn-off, you just go round again (and again and again...).
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