SultanOfSwing

Stay away from Swindon, then.

Pulaski

And Milton Keynes, and Gloucester, which has some real corkers, including a large three-leg gyratory junction (effectively three scissor junctions combined), and several which since I left the UK have had low-curb paved rings cut out of the island, which allow you to pretty much straight-line across from right-lane entry to right lane exit at fairly high speed, a manoeuvre which has a very good chance of spooking the locals.

FWIW I love roundabouts.

SultanOfSwing

I like roundabouts as well, I was just thinking of the Magic Roundabout after reading that post.

Pulaski

I passed within a couple of miles of that, twice, recently but passed up the opportunity to pay it a visit.

SultanOfSwing

I've never been anywhere near it, but I have watched a few videos of people going around it if that counts.

spouse of scouse

I didn't have an opinion one way or another on roundabouts, until I was a passenger in my mother in law's car and she entered it the wrong way. And then proceeded to drive around it twice - the wrong way.

Pulaski

There was a similar "experimental" junction in Sheffield when I lived there as a child, so I never experienced it as a driver, but they paved over the entire junction - there was no fixed island, then they laid out the island and islets, five IIRC, made from tyres painted white with direction signs mounted in barrels. They could then move the junction around to different layouts, or adjust the layout easily, so you never knew exactly what the junction would be like when you arrived at it. I have never been able to find information about it on line, although I know it was removed and turned into a conventional junction after we left, or maybe even before, so I am not even certainly exactly where it used to be.

SultanOfSwing

That's a unique situation right there

I kind of like the idea of a variable roundabout. Keeps everyone on their toes when they don't know what configuration will be used on a given day.

Pulaski

The magic roundabout in Swindon? ….. There is no right or wrong way - it is perfectly possible to drive through the junction in either direction (there are actually multiple ways to cross the junction to each exit). That said what seems to spook people most is that the center island must be driven around the opposite way to conventional roundabouts in the UK.

Hotscot

One of those 4 lane spiral t̶r̶a̶f̶f̶i̶c̶ ̶c̶i̶r̶c̶l̶e̶s̶ roundabouts near Edinburgh airport, If you're not observant it's easy to drift into an adjacent lane as a young couple did to me.
Then they glared and honked at me as they thought I was the one in the wrong lane.
Bloody neophytes...

I gave them a good shake of the head and a definitive 'tut'.

markonline1

You know you’ve been in the US too long when you give the wife some pound coins to buy the kids some stuff at the little shop in Bracknell train station only to find out they aren’t legal tender any more LOL. I genuinely had no idea they had gone from the round pound coins to those 2 tone hexagonal type things.
I do want to thank the person who made the decision to abolish the Severn Bridge tolls 24 hours before I was due to cross though!

Redwing

Right about now, I'm fixin' to go to the house.

Jerseygirl

Was that the one near the university/St Phillips Road?

Nutmegger

Many years ago I was staying in London and went to the store to buy a few things -- the clerk (whose English wasn't too spectacular) informed me that the pound notes I was handing him weren't legal tender and I was starting to get "WTF are you talking about" huffy when some other people in the queue explained to me that it was this particular note that had been withdrawn from circulation! Red face . . .

Kooky.

We go round it at least once a year. My Swindonian husband tells me it's a fun place to go when you're learning to drive.

(Hello, just lurking around the US forums due to a potential move, trying to educate myself.)