Magic Roundabout

**CPHB** · 20th July 2005, 10:46

Hello

Is this for real or is it a joke

http://www.swindonweb.com/life/lifemagi0.htm

I would go nuts if I came (with my caravan) driving into this roundabout

Best regards
CPHB

**AJA** · 20th July 2005, 11:08

No mate, it's very real. I've negotiated it in an LGV. I wasn't expecting it either, nightmare.

**JCB** · 20th July 2005, 11:20

...easy!! if your coming up from bottom left and going straight on - i reckon theres a line dead straight...seems to have worked controlling traffic however - only a couple of cars dare go near it!!!

**Drinky** · 20th July 2005, 13:38

Theres one of these just out side Hemel hempsted i came across it 2pm on a saturday when it was full of shoppers absolute b1oody nightmare i havnt been back since !!!!!

**C19_CJB** · 20th July 2005, 14:00

That must be a nightmare.... a lot of drivers struggle with the concept of one mini roundabout nevermind 5!!!

It really p1sses me off when people forget that the 'give way to the right' rule still applies to mini roundabouts.... GRRR!

**Jamie** · 20th July 2005, 14:50

I've driven through it at 1 in the afternoon and 1 in the morning...... its great at 1 in the morning, just a huge expanse of tarmac..... 1 in the afternoon is a different story, nightmare.

**CPHB** · 20th July 2005, 15:04

This is unbelievable

I have looked at the pictures and tried to understand

In the centre you drive the opposite way around???

There should be some kind of punishment for this idea

**C19_CJB** · 20th July 2005, 15:05

That must be a nightmare.... a lot of drivers struggle with the concept of one mini roundabout nevermind 5!!!

It really p1sses me off when people forget that the 'give way to the right' rule still applies to mini roundabouts.... GRRR!

Edit: sorry I posted this twice... keep getting a server error whenever I try to post a reply?!

**Jamie** · 20th July 2005, 15:07

Originally Posted by C19_CJB

It really p1sses me off when people forget that the 'give way to the right' rule still applies to mini roundabouts.... GRRR!

Even worse when you get to the middle of the Magic Roundabout, where it changes to give way to the left!!!!

**GARY3306** · 20th July 2005, 15:13

I lived in Colchester for 10 yearsafter leaving the Army. They tested the first one of these out there and it still causes a few

Women drivers are the worst, they haven't got a clue. Mind you some of the blokes aren't much better. You can go either clockwise or anti-clockwise around the main one but the normal rules apply to the small ones