I`m surprised there are not more accidents on our local, Crittals Corner off A20

not many actually take any notice of what lane goes where, as long as they can cut others up getting to the exit they want, if you happen to be in the right lane and someone cuts you up, according to them your in the wrong.

a bottleneck arises due to those overtaking the cue then cutting in very sharp into a single lane.

I wonder why people dont read signs there are enough of them

Tackling large unfamiliar multi-lane roundabouts can be a pain. Too often if you follow the lane marking signs you are expected to change lanes as you progress and the lane markings either come too late or are obscured by traffic until you are right upon them. When you are mixing with "regulars" who swoop from lane to lane there is the risk of a bump.

Rather than make a dangerous manouvre to make my exit, if necessary, I will take another loop around the roundabout so that I can take the safe route next time round. Not great for traffic flow but needs must.

I hasten to add I am not averse to well designed roundabouts. I used to transit the Swindon Magic Roundabout daily and in many years' use never saw an accident or major hold-up. Even near misses were rare.

Road marking for junctions, on the road surface, are crazy - when it's busy you can't see them until too late to get in the right lane - when it's not busy, they aren't really needed.

It's time these were outlawed.

Around here most of the roundabouts have been turned into a traffic light mess but the remaining ones are an example of how not to paint road markings.

More often than note the lanes are too thin for anything other than a bubble car and trying the stay within them is impossible. They also are so poorly laid out they mean you need to change lanes at the last minute to take your exit, causing confusion for those on the roundabout and also those giving way.

Durham county councils genuis department was at work on one roundabout, covering it with traffic lights and claiming they'd improve traffic flow by adding an extra lane. All they did was make 2 normal lanes into 3 thin lanes, in which everyone overspills and general treats them as 2 lanes anyway.

I'm not sure who designs these but they obviously have never driven a car around one of their cockups!

Well, we have in the Keston Kent area, a new roundabout just about to open being a month behind schedule, according to what I read some months ago. This roundabout replaces a dodgy Y-junction where the main Westerham Rd meets Heathfield Rd coming from Hayes and Keston.

At the moment the new roundabout is being re-surfaced and everyting getting ready for normal traffic and many weeks of traffic lights control.

From what I have seen, and bearing in mind that double decker buses have to negotiate this new roundabout I can foresee problems but I'm a typical pessimist perhaps.

In order to accentuate its rounabout status, sinuous kerbs have been built out at various parts where I can see some vehicles hitting or mounting these nasty edges but no doubt most traffic will manage to miss them, with sufficient illumination and observation.

The centre piece is fashioned from blockwork and is also level with the road surface only in places where I can imagine it would be impossible for large vehicle to negotiate the roundabout if it had a raised kerb. However, diagonally opposite, there are raised kerbs on the centre area and so its geometry is not consistent and I suppose, like painted circles on mini-roundabouts, they want to encourage traffic to keep to the tarmac.

I am sceptical as to how well this will work but hope it will alleviate the morning and evening traffic jams we had befored, with traffic queueing to exit Heathfield Rd onto the main Westerham Rd. However I can see the possibiltiy of damaged wheels or blown tyres on the unobserved and unexpected projecting kerbs.