Anyone who has driven in Europe (or in a few cities in the eastern US) has encountered roundabouts. Call them what you will -- rotary, roundabout, traffic circle, ring-junction -- they confound most drivers who run into them the first time. Once you've driven a few, they are less of a problem (although I honestly cannot think what the inner lanes of roundabouts are for, really).
Still, this roundabout in Swindon, England, would confuse even the most roundabout-inured driver (Picture from the Urbanthought blog)
It's a huge roundabout with FIVE mini-roundabouts in it (which is actually called a Magic Roundabout). Someone was taking a serious amount of drugs when they designed this one!
It even has a Wikipedia entry describing the traffic patterns.
1 comment:
In general, I'm for roundabouts. But this is rather over the top!
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