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They look scarier than they are in practice. What I hate more is those massive roundabouts with traffic lights on where dual carriageways meet. On those things
by laumars 7y ago
They look scarier than they are in practice. What I hate more is those massive roundabouts with traffic lights on where dual carriageways meet. On those things you still have a mix of cars who don't know where they're going and lanes to be away of, but in addition you have traffic lights and cars moving at much higher speeds than on magic roundabouts.
- andybak 7y agoI've resigned myself to a massive detour to avoid one of those beasts. After a few incidents that were a bit scary and a few where I just went round it three times trying to figure out when to change lanes I just gave up and found a different route.
- dmitriid 7y agoBarcelona. It's fine to have a roundabout where several roads meet, each with multiple lanes, and the circle itself to have 6 or more lanes [1] [1] As an example https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3748215,2.1491456,232m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3748215,2.1491456,232m/data=...
- laumars 7y agoThat does look a busy junction but I was thinking more like when motorways cross. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stansted+CM24+8JT/@51.8715988,0.1993421,304m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x47d88f64abc6132b:0xe9579511ff3bb274!8m2!3d51.905225!4d0.19691 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Stansted+CM24+8JT/@51.8715... This example is by no means the worse in the UK -- far from it -- but it does illustrate how cars can be going round at high speeds even when it's not really safe to. It amazes me there aren't any fatalities on these kinds of junctions because it's a horrible mix of speed, heavy traffic, lighter and heavier vehicles (eg you get plenty of lorries on there too) and clueless drivers. A real bad recipe. But it might just be my lack of faith in other drivers that makes me nervous on those junctions rather than them being inherently unsafe.