In another thread, R75 linked to a juntion on Google maps which set my tiny brain in motion. I found a helicopter-view of a roundabout which aged me 10 years not long ago.
tinyurl.com/6vnk6q
Apparently, 20% of users never make their destination, marooned as they are in triple laned cross-roundabout madness. I once took a right from the road on the left top to Stockley Road South-bound. God's been with me ever since...
I trust this is an acceptable topic for discussion but I, for one, would be very interested to see examples of semingly dangerous or confusing road junctions. Particularly arial views - available from several sources, not only the ubiquitous "G". I hope that I'm not alone in finding this an interesting topic...
Edited by rtj70 on 02/01/2009 at 00:10
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I know that junction well FD and i've turned right many times at the wrong bit, its as confusing as hell.
The amusing thing being as i havent used that particular road for probably 12 months and i know very well i'd get it wrong just the same tomorrow.
The whole area thats covered by the M6 toll road is (in my opinion and most of my colleagues too) signed deliberately confusingly, but by sheer coincidence you always end up on the toll rd by mistake, particularly at the Southern end A446/A38/A5 junctions.
And despite travelling South down the A446 or M42 onto the 4/6 lane section near Coleshill dozens of times, i still often make a pigs ear of it and end up in the wrong lane for M6n/s or M42s...is it me?
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Crooked Billet junction - tinyurl.com/79j6at needing to be in the left hand lane to turn right when headed east along the Staines bypass is not intuitive.
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Colchester always surprised me. tinyurl.com/7gq5qw
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A bit like the magic roundabout in Swindon that.
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and another one in Hemel Hempstead. Can't understand what is the point of "magic" roundabouts!
They probably later realized it was a crazy idea - otherwise we'd have seem even more magics :)
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M42/M6 toll/A446 junction northbound.
Used it today and it always causes confusion to someone. I think at one point there are five lanes.
A car in front of me started in the left hand lane (A446), moved to the right (M42), moved back to inside lane, moved back to M42, took moved back to take the slip road to A446, then moved back onto M42 as the slip road chevrons disappear then it becomes a 4 lane motorway with 2 for A446 and 2 for M42 (!), at the last moment the driver moved back onto the A446.
Thankfully it was quiet at 9.30 this morning, any more traffic and it could have been a pile up.
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Its a bit naughty that one.
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I'm a delivery driver, and I cover all the M6 Toll area every day. I never deliberately use the Toll road because I'd get charged GBP9 even for going one junction up it. I have accidentally joined it once in 18 months though, at the Burntwood junction - the signs were ambiguous, a fact confirmed to me in writing by the Toll co. when I tried to appeal the charge, as they told me there is a yellow temporary sign 100yds before the junction to clarify things!
Further down at the northbound M42/A446/M6 Toll split, I have seen everything from last-minute multi-lane swervers to hard shoulder reversers to, on one occasion, as I bore left for the M42, the driver of a car on the M6 Toll looking aghast at me as it dawned on them they had just taken an expensive and unnecessary detour.
Dave TD.
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