FYI England and her roundabout addiction

[wiggins]

I have been driving near London in my hire car which I have thankfully just returned at Heathrow.

The traffic is unlike anything I've ever encountered. The motor ways flow into each other continuously and when you go off them you enter into some kind of roundabout hell. Many are like some nightmarish Venn diagrams in which figure 8's swirl around in flower like shapes sometimes with traffic lights thrown in to add colour to an otherwise drab scene. The GPS sat nav doesn't really help much as it is not accurate enough to tell you exactly which lane to be in to exit with the result that you sometimes end up back on another motor way for a while whilst the little electronic brain in the thing recalibrates.

I'm sure if you live here it all works seamlessly but it sure gave me some scary moments, and I drive on the left like they do here. I can only imagine what fun our American friends must have...

Below is an article about round abouts and the 'Roundabout Appreciation Society for those wanting further information on this nightmare...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/england-roundabouts-fredericton-embrace-1.5361048

 

[Vwj]

Ha ha ha you funny

 

[ThunderCat]

I'd NEVER drive around London or near it. Nope!!!
As for the motorway. To leave them, it's always in the left lane at junctions. Haha.
I am confused as to why you said which lane to leave from..?
Can you leave from other lanes in other countries?
😂🤣

 

[djdeeds]

Have you ever been to Canberra? I fucking went round in circles for what seemed like hours trapped in a maze of roundabouts and roads that all went in circles. There seems to be no straight roads in that friggin city, all just swirly shit. You go in headed north then blink, and end up facing south!!

 

[wiggins]

Have you ever been to Canberra? I fucking went round in circles for what seemed like hours trapped in a maze of roundabouts and roads that all went in circles. There seems to be no straight roads in that friggin city, all just swirly shit. You go in headed north then blink, and end up facing south!!

Burley Griffon was tripping on some great acid when he planned out Canberra...

 

[lovestruck]

They have roundabouts in the US, mainly in super rich areas. Seems as time goes on they are increasing. I personally like them because it beats sitting at a red light continuously. But I can see how it could be a confusing mess if to many are put on the road specially at short proximity to one and another.

 

[lechmich]

I drove Paris first and it was a great training course. Arc de Triomphmpe I had to physically drive several different directions a day. It's amazing how you find the French funk

 

[j.f.🔎]

I don't think we have any double roundabouts up north, well above Manchester but they are southerners really, I have been 'round' a roundabout in Yorkshire with only 2 exits though.

 

[Chank]

I employed a driver years ago, biggest fucking mistake I ever made.
He used to drive around roundabouts so many times to see how many times round made a mile.
What a boring twat he was.

 

[Interregnum]

I'd NEVER drive around London or near it. Nope!!!
As for the motorway. To leave them, it's always in the left lane at junctions. Haha.
I am confused as to why you said which lane to leave from..?
Can you leave from other lanes in other countries?
😂🤣

you can drive with me
in my fake taxi
the payment method is a bit unusual

 

[PinkE]

They're been building stupid round abouts all over colorado. I fucking HATE them

 

[Interregnum]

They're been building stupid round abouts all over colorado. I fucking HATE them

but baby girl it is safer for the traffic

 

[PinkE]

but baby girl it is safer for the traffic

Not when you're driving around thousands of old fucking retards that just started smoking Marijuana for the first time in their early 60s and can't drive in a strait line, let alone some new traffic pattern

 

[wiggins]

I'd NEVER drive around London or near it. Nope!!!
As for the motorway. To leave them, it's always in the left lane at junctions. Haha.
I am confused as to why you said which lane to leave from..?
Can you leave from other lanes in other countries?
😂🤣

It's when you have multiple left lanes with various arrows leading to multiple exit options... and half of those options are blocked by other traffic because you were not in the lane 50 metres away when you should have been...

It's ok, I'm home in Aus now, back in the rural country side with its lonely roads and lack of traffic...

 

[dwdays]

Jews

 

[Clendenon]

I have been driving near London in my hire car which I have thankfully just returned at Heathrow.

The traffic is unlike anything I've ever encountered. The motor ways flow into each other continuously and when you go off them you enter into some kind of roundabout hell. Many are like some nightmarish Venn diagrams in which figure 8's swirl around in flower like shapes sometimes with traffic lights thrown in to add colour to an otherwise drab scene. The GPS sat nav doesn't really help much as it is not accurate enough to tell you exactly which lane to be in to exit with the result that you sometimes end up back on another motor way for a while whilst the little electronic brain in the thing recalibrates.

I'm sure if you live here it all works seamlessly but it sure gave me some scary moments, and I drive on the left like they do here. I can only imagine what fun our American friends must have...

Below is an article about round abouts and the 'Roundabout Appreciation Society for those wanting further information on this nightmare...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/england-roundabouts-fredericton-embrace-1.5361048

See Chevy Chase in European Vacation.

 

[jfkisafk]

The walking dead, you can reanimate them with narcan.
stock up on Narcan, in case there is a zombie apocalypse