The magic round-about in Hemel Hempstead is a good one if you've never been there.
One huge round-about with 6 little round-abouts around it. Sound crazy. Go and look if you can. Its been there for years. Very fist time you go around it it's very much, WHAT THE....!!
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>>One huge round-about with 6 little round-abouts around it>>
There is one in Swindon.
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The Swindon one is the SON of Hemel Hemstead crazy for a first time or nervous user.
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OP wrote >>but now much of it has painted road hatchings to turn it into single carriageway<<
Single lane, dual carriageway, surely ?
So a 70 MPH limit (for cars) would still apply, rather than the 60MPH for single carriageway
I remember the magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead being installed - it's a big improvement over the dangerously fast, big roundabout that was there before (and forms the 'ring')
I have to agree about the white paint and road furniture springing up everywhere - along with those fences that have been built on the approach to roundabouts so you can't see traffic on the roundabout till you're at the Give Way line. Unless you buy a Toyota Amazon of course :-)
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Another example of crazy road markings is Oatlands Drive between Weybridge and Walton-on-Thames in Surrey. Until a few years ago this was a reasonably wide single carriageway road. The council, in their wisdom, put occasional islands in to narrow each carriage, but at the same time marked cycle lanes only at the pinch points created by the islands. So the only way to drive down this road past the islands is to drive IN the cycle lanes. And you have to swerve round the islands to avoid kerb build-outs. Quite mad.
The Hemel roundabout has always worked well by the way - never flummoxed me when I was learning 25 years ago!
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The Swindon one is the SON of Hemel Hemstead crazy for a first time or nervous user.
And they are both the offspring of the one in Colchester, where you have to go round the satellite roundabouts ant-clockwise. Very alarming at first.
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There is one in Swindon.
The one in swindon only has 5 mini roundabouts. That aside, I don't know why so many people find it so difficult to navigate.
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The one in swindon only has 5 mini roundabouts. That aside, I don't know why so many people find it so difficult to navigate.
There's one in High Wycombe as well at the bottom of the A404 hill. I learnt on it - you get used to it and it's easier than the old version.
Course, it's a nightmare for new people!
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It's due to the governmen only funding council's 'projects' if they meet certain criteria, all funding is now 'project-based' rather than general maintenance and improvements. This is the £5Bn of road 'improvements' announced years ago by two-jags Prescott.
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Surrey was designed for blasting around on a 'big traily' style motorbike.
Why do you think I drive such a boring car? 'Traffic calming' has sucked most of the fun out of driving.
Now, the same obstacle course on a high, fast, fairly powerful motorbike with off road ability? Game on.
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Yes I have been to surrey..in fact I go twice a week to work in the Guildford area. Watch those speed traps on the hog,s back I have been warned.
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