Shirtback

The first one I recall around here showed up ~ 15 years ago. With stop signs at each entry point ... And a series of articles in the local paper about how to drive around a roundabout...

Jambodj

Wait until someone does a magic roundabout like Swindon! All hell will break loose

Shirtback

(Makes note to avoid driving through Swindon. Ever. !!)

Jambodj

It is certainly a unique experience, everyone seems to either crawl and not know what they are doing OR put their foot down trying to dodge everyone and also, not know what they are doing!

Oakvillian

There's a slightly bigger one of those in Hemel Hempstead.



We have a couple of local roundabouts - mostly in residential areas. A little further afield from me, just outside the township of St Jacobs (a significant Mennonite community) there's a major intersection with a roundabout that has the added excitement of quite a lot of horsedrawn traffic. An instructive place to spend a few minutes watching some remarkable near-misses...

Cardienscarf

Greenstead Roundabout(s), Colchester. Went round it this morning. Sometimes I go round it one way and then go round the other way just because I can.

Pulaski

I used to be fairly sure that you are a woman. Now I am having doubts.

I used to take the Magic Roundabout at Swindon and if I needed to go clockwise by two roads in the rush hour it was invariably quicker to keep in the righthand entry lane, then go anticlockwise round the core than to take the conventional left lane entry/ keep left route.

N1cky

I'd forgotten about that one. Used to drive around it regularly when I went to the Hemel office.

GeoffM

The north side was always quieter. I found the trick with it was to be quick on the gas.... you snooze you lose (And in complete contrast, here I often wave others across at all-way stops if I'm not sure who ought to go first - just simpler).

GeoffM

Our local (an hour away!), Lancaster CA.

There's another in Claremont IIRC, tiny one on side streets though. Didn't stop somebody nearly rear-ending the preceding car giving way (incorrectly) to a car waiting (correctly) on the approach though.

Anian

Zebra crossings next to roundabouts are dumb. Cars can't leave the roundabout when they need to, which blocks at least one lot of traffic from getting onto the roundabout. Anything that involves traffic stopping on a roundabout is a bad idea.

RoadWarriorFromLP

There's pride, and then there's hubris.

RICH

The only one of significance in my county, I just learned, has a history. Used to have a fountain.

Dorothy

We lived in the West End of Vancouver 23 years ago and we definitely had them then. We were told they were put in to help stop the "ladies of the evening" from standing on street corners. If cars don't stop then the ladies are less likely to have a chance to solicit.

Anyway, we moved to Lions Bay shortly after.

username.exe

Wonder why they never put them in the Downtown Eastside (where I was) then?!!