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The beauty of these kind of junctions is you can drive clockwise or anti-clockwise. Essentially it's not a roundabout but rather one junction comprised of lots
by laumars 7y ago
The beauty of these kind of junctions is you can drive clockwise or anti-clockwise. Essentially it's not a roundabout but rather one junction comprised of lots of roundabouts.
The Colchester equivalent better demonstrates this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Colchester) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Colchester)
Personal anecdote: I had to drive around one of these junctions during my driving test
- twic 7y agoThe article explains why the Colchester one is particularly cursed: it's built on a native burial ground!
- twic 7y agoIn other Colchester roundabout news, the one at North Station is fun - it's a normal roundabout, but with a road cutting right through the middle of it too: https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2005/QBlog160705A.html https://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2005/QBlog160705A.html There are lights to make sure nobody crashes - effectively switching it between being a roundabout and being a through road - but it's still pretty weird.
- laumars 7y agoI worked in Colchester around the time that was being built. It's much nicer now than what was there before (in my opinion). The only annoying thing about that junction is it can sometimes take a long time to traverse it because of all the lights. The problem with Colchester is that it's plagued with heavy traffic and bad drivers.
- JdeBP 7y agoNuneaton has one such, at the junction of the A444 and A4254. Nottingham also has one, on the junction of the A52 and B6003.