Magic Roundabout (Swindon)
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Magic Roundabout (Swindon)
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#2Imagine coming from mainland europe and having to drive on the other side of the road (thus also taking roundabouts the other way round), and then navigating this baby...
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#3I find the whole "inner ring for people who know what they're doing and outer ring for people who have no business driving in heavy traffic" concept highly attractive but the fact that the safety claims revolve around injuries and makes no mention of overall accidents (if it reduced overall accidents surely they would mention it) makes me suspect this thing is a fender bender (and therefore traffic jam) factory.
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#4The traffic engineer who managed to convince authorities that this was the solution to their problems must've been very charismatic.
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#5Imagine coming from mainland europe and having to drive on the other side of the road (thus also taking roundabouts the other way round), and then navigating this baby...
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)
Personal anecdote: I had to drive around one of these junctions during my driving test
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#6I grew up near a city called Birmingham in the UK which has it's share of... disturbing junctions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ways,_Birmingham
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelly_Hill_Interchange
They look insane on a map, they must have been hellish to navigate before GPS.
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#7My driving instructor sketched The Magic on paper and asked me to draw various routes before he let me drive on it. My driving test went over it, so at least I was prepared!
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#8I live close to this magnificent piece of engineering, AMA.
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#9I live close to this magnificent piece of engineering, AMA.
Ah, a fellow Swindonian!
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#10I grew up near a city called Birmingham in the UK which has it's share of... disturbing junctions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ways,_Birmingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravelly_Hill_Interchange They look insane on a map, they must have been hellish to navigate before GPS.
Spaghetti junction is still hellish...