The strange magic of Swindon’s seven-in-one roundabout
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The strange magic of Swindon’s seven-in-one roundabout
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#2Interesting topic but the article itself has no detail, just lots of advertising.
Re: The strange magic of Swindon’s seven-in-one roundabout
#3Is Swindon really better known for its art galleries than its ludicrous roundabout? It does have a massive train museum though, if you like that sort of thing.
Fun fact: you can go the wrong way around the magic roundabout due to its lovecraftian geometry.
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#4Interesting topic but the article itself has no detail, just lots of advertising.
I think the focus of the article is meant to be the video.
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#5There are several magic roundabouts - I grew up near High Wycombe which has one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Magic_roundabout
The Swindon one is notable because it was the first, and because it has the tightest geometry, which makes it harder to see how it works.
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#6Hemel Hempstead, North of London, has an even better one.
https://goo.gl/maps/aAq7pzA45eR2
It's actually 6 roundabouts forming a seventh (the Swindon one is only five forming a sixth) and it's also over a waterway.
As the taxi drove us through that madness, my boss turned to me and said "okay, you were right, it's best we didn't rent a car and try to drive to ourselves".
Re: The strange magic of Swindon’s seven-in-one roundabout
#7Interesting topic but the article itself has no detail, just lots of advertising.
That, and the video had that very insulting 'brexit' joke. Poor taste.
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#8Do most people just simply ignore the outer roundabouts? Otherwise I don't know how to explain this picture: https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/wired_see-h...
There's a group of cars on the very right simply driving through the roundabout instead of around the center dot; and the two red cars on the left side of the image also couldn't have ended up where they are without ignoring the roundabout right behind them.
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#9"Only one fatal crash in five years." (mentioned in video)
That's hardly a good fact to support the claim that roundabouts are safer that well-regulated conventional intersections... which they are actually, and more efficient in terms of the traffic flow. But the "1 fatality in 5 years" is an useless data point that proves absolutely nothing.
Re: The strange magic of Swindon’s seven-in-one roundabout
#10Do most people just simply ignore the outer roundabouts? Otherwise I don't know how to explain this picture: https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/wired_see-h... There's a group of cars on the very right simply driving through the roundabout instead of around the center dot; and the two red cars on the left side of the image also couldn't have ended up where they are without ignoring the roundabout right b…
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but that photo appears to be from some sort of staged shoot, which probably explains why it's not being used as you'd expect.
Edit: Here's another photo that appears to be from the same event http://matrixdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MTX_MAGIC_...
And a photo of the roundabout in a more typical setting: http://www.boostinspiration.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/S...
