username.exe

Given the conversation on another thread, post of link or screenshot to the best your local area has to offer.

*Hits play on top 40 countdown music*

Here's a stonker to kick us off, up twenty places from last week from the Westside of Phoenix... counting four exits and...

*needle slip*

Two lanes!

*music resumes*

celticgrid

Sometimes, one just isn't enough...

Mrs Danvers

Which is the UK town that has the magic roundabout? Swindon?

username.exe

I'd never thought I'd see one of those over here... lucky you

N1cky

Yep.

Having lived in Milton Keynes for 2 years, I really miss roundabouts. There was one that was utterly ridiculous though, it appears to have been re-designed 3 years ago, to this. Which still seems quite silly.

http://www.stevesdriving.co.uk/wpima...ae0d_05_06.jpg

It used to be one large one, onto a smaller one that flowed in the opposite direction. Planning decided to allow B&Q to build on one side, a giant Walmart superstore on the other side, and Ikea then moved in on another. Thankfully, we moved away before MK Dons moved in to their new stadium that occupied the final exit of the roundabout

markonline1

2 roundabouts built in my town. So new they aren't even on google earth. I still remember my wife rushing home from work like she'd won the lottery, she couldn't wait to tell me LOL. Of course, in a country where no one knows how to use an indicator, roundabouts are an extremely bad idea.

Mrs Danvers

Here's a fun one I actually use sometimes in Brighton CO

TimFountain

Loads of them 'round here. You just just have to be careful for numpties who stop in the middle of the roundabout to let someone on, idiots who don't stop for traffic already in the roundabout (see above) and morons who go the 'wrong way' around the roundabout. Apart from that they are good. I'd prefer them any day over the truly time wasting 4-way stop. I never did understand why everyone needs to stop, especially when one road is a major road and the other is a minor one.

This one is in an interesting location:
Chaos: A roundabout way to defeat traffic | OregonLive.com

scrubbedexpat091

They are gaining popularity in US and Canada, most seem to be starting slow and working up to larger ones.

We have 2 where I live, both built in the last 7 years when the road was built, but they have not replaced any existing intersections with one.

The roundabout never makes the list of top accident prone area's so it must do well despite being busy.

username.exe

I used to live in Vancouver. I don't think I saw a single roundabout in all the years I was there. Glad to hear they're coming on to the scene.

Yorkieabroad

I nearly had a wipeout with one of those a while back....

I was the one going round the smallish roundabout, effectively making a left turn. It was my first time round it, in the dark, and some twunt coming from the opposite direction decided just to shoot straight across it right in front of me. Lots of screeching tires, leaning on horns and there may even have been a middle finger or two (from him, not me)..

Unfortunately, going round it some time later, in the daylight, it was much easier to see the (unlit) Stop sign on the left hand side, behind the tree, instructing the people already on the roundabout to Stop in favour of cars entering the roundabout. Apparently I deserved the middle fingers because, the twunt,indeed, was me!

ChocolateBabz

This is mine, the only one in our city as far as I am aware. The locals seem to think it's a dart board for cars and often land in it...

retzie

I read this thread title as "Roundabout Bride". Could've been the traffic/greencard reality show to take us through the summer.

I am disappoint

scrubbedexpat091

I am not in Vancouver proper, but a suburb, and in the burbs there are more showing up now.

There might be some in Vancouver proper, but I haven't come across one.

Redwing

We were in Hilliard OH last month, and saw some there, particularly in the old part of town.