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That's not even the best "Magic Roundabout", the one in my town is much better! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead) https://en.wiki

That's not even the best "Magic Roundabout", the one in my town is much better! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempst...

martin-adams 7y ago
Ahh yes, this roundabout where I managed to enrage a white van driver who then proceeded to tailgate right up the A1
Symbiote 7y ago
That one at least has the normal sign, with the small roundabouts marked as black circles. Swindon is a weird exception for using the blue mini-roundabout sign on this type of junction. I think that makes the junction look more confusing than it really is.
Vaanir 7y ago
Has yours had "Mad Mike" drift around it? ;) https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/videos/mad-mike-whiddett-drifts-the-magic-roundabout https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/videos/mad-mike-whiddett-drift...
- chrishannah 7y ago
  There'd probably be a crash, it's never that empty.
mabbo 7y ago
I'm Canadian. We had a work trip to the UK. My manager kept saying "I think I can handle driving in there, how bad could it be?". I told him we'd die. As we went through the Hemel Hempstead magic roundabout in the back of a cab, he turned to me and said "Okay... you might have been right."
- Reason077 7y ago
  Statistically, you are less likely to die compared to driving in Canada. UK roads may be confusing, but they are significantly safer than Canadian roads, as measured by fatalities per billion km driven. (And Canada is already among the safest non-European countries, with significantly fewer fatalities compared to the USA)
  - mabbo 7y ago
    This was years ago and I have actually now driven in the UK myself. Yes, I'm sure overall I'd be less likely to die if I were driving every day in the UK vs driving every day in Canada. But let me tell you, the first day driving on the other side of the road is a real doozy. And I nearly died a couple of times. And I was doing my very best to avoid "magic roundabouts". (I actually drove all week through rural Wales, which was a different kind of adventure)
- JdeBP 7y ago
  As a Canadian, you should be proud that for almost 60 years you had a junction that was much worse, and possibly unique: the infamous Armdale Rotary, where traffic on the rotary and traffic joining the rotary alternated in priority. * https://web.archive.org/web/20190816111546/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armdale_Rotary https://web.archive.org/web/20190816111546/https://en.wikipe...
Nursie 7y ago
Ha, I learned to drive around there in the late 90s, absolute nightmare. But I'm pretty fearless these days!
hermitcrab 7y ago
Pah! I laugh at your pathetic 'magic roundabout', where the roundabouts don't even overlap.

martin-adams 7y ago

Ahh yes, this roundabout where I managed to enrage a white van driver who then proceeded to tailgate right up the A1

Symbiote 7y ago

That one at least has the normal sign, with the small roundabouts marked as black circles. Swindon is a weird exception for using the blue mini-roundabout sign on this type of junction. I think that makes the junction look more confusing than it really is.

Vaanir 7y ago

Has yours had "Mad Mike" drift around it? ;) https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/videos/mad-mike-whiddett-drifts-the-magic-roundabout https://www.redbull.com/ie-en/videos/mad-mike-whiddett-drift...

chrishannah 7y ago
There'd probably be a crash, it's never that empty.

mabbo 7y ago

I'm Canadian. We had a work trip to the UK. My manager kept saying "I think I can handle driving in there, how bad could it be?". I told him we'd die. As we went through the Hemel Hempstead magic roundabout in the back of a cab, he turned to me and said "Okay... you might have been right."

Reason077 7y ago
Statistically, you are less likely to die compared to driving in Canada. UK roads may be confusing, but they are significantly safer than Canadian roads, as measured by fatalities per billion km driven. (And Canada is already among the safest non-European countries, with significantly fewer fatalities compared to the USA)
- mabbo 7y ago
  This was years ago and I have actually now driven in the UK myself. Yes, I'm sure overall I'd be less likely to die if I were driving every day in the UK vs driving every day in Canada. But let me tell you, the first day driving on the other side of the road is a real doozy. And I nearly died a couple of times. And I was doing my very best to avoid "magic roundabouts". (I actually drove all week through rural Wales, which was a different kind of adventure)
JdeBP 7y ago
As a Canadian, you should be proud that for almost 60 years you had a junction that was much worse, and possibly unique: the infamous Armdale Rotary, where traffic on the rotary and traffic joining the rotary alternated in priority. * https://web.archive.org/web/20190816111546/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armdale_Rotary https://web.archive.org/web/20190816111546/https://en.wikipe...

Nursie 7y ago

Ha, I learned to drive around there in the late 90s, absolute nightmare. But I'm pretty fearless these days!

hermitcrab 7y ago

Pah! I laugh at your pathetic 'magic roundabout', where the roundabouts don't even overlap.