• 7-Circle Roundabout --- Swindon, UK

    From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 7 14:16:59 2024
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    Is this really safer than the alternative???


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGvj7GZSIo

    1:32 (only 90 seconds)


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    Your first thought upon seeing Swindon's 'magic
    roundabout' might be: man, the Brits have really lost the plot lately.

    But this thing—which is actually seven roundabouts in one—has been
    working for 60 years.

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    You just point your vehicle toward where you want to go, yield to cars already in the midst of the magic then [brexit] on the other side.

    Many Americans May hate roundabouts but they can actually cut serious
    crashes by 30%.

    Swinden says its roundabout has only seen one fatal crash in the past 5
    years.

    So to celebrate, a town anniversary they paraded over 60 vintage cars
    through this feat of traffic engineering.

    Is this madness? Nope it's Swinden.


    ------------ Maybe for a year or two, they sometimes threw in the
    word [brexit] in place of [exit]... Interesting!

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  • From LionelEdwards@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Sun May 12 15:13:10 2024
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    HenHanna wrote:


    Is this really safer than the alternative???


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OGvj7GZSIo

    The Hatton Cross (Heathrow) roundabout predates this and works
    just as well.

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