Round abouts a great idea 20yrs ago, But now!!.

Axle

Methinks its time to hand your licence in and move into the Old Age Home.....hehehehehehe

If you want to see Roundabouts gone mad, go to Darwin. Its claustrophobic!!!!


Cheers

Maaaate!
You ain't seen nothin' til you see the Brittania roundabout in Adelaide. It's a real doozy and the government has spent millions on consultant fees to redesign it. They reckon it is going to stay the way it is. For information it is just near the Victoria Park racecourse and was part of the F1 GP track. It seems like a car race is still on there every time I drive through.

Kingo

Hi All if you want round-about fever, try wyong shire council and gosford, between the two shires i think there up around 60 mark @ 100,000 a pop roughly???? these councils know there roundabouts allright as most of these are dual carriages and the in Wyoming is 5 ways and its chicken season everytime you approach during rush hour and no jackie chang or chris tucker to entertain!!!!

More and more are being replaced in Brisbane now with traffic lights.

The volume of traffic is so large that only the through-traffic on the main routes gets a go - the minor road entries to the round-a-bouts just build up huge lines of stationery traffic.

Always fun driving through Noosa shire on the way to tewantin. Fatsos not the quickest off the mark at the best of times, let alone when w@nkers in convertable BMW's are trying thier best to beat thier PB time from the Country Club to the Cafe.

Was reduced almost to tears last saturday, was coming back from a surf at Tee Tree point when I was cut off by a current model Jaguar sedan; number plates (I $hit you not) 'DICK01'. Some people have just got more money than sense!

Was stationary for almost a minute till I regained my composure, smart car behind me wasn't impressed though :).

"1. Give Way to any vehicle on the round-a-bout approaching from your right "

If you drive defensively you often have to give way when they are 30m before the roundabout!

There's one near us where the minor road traffic doesn't get a look in and you have to nudge out into the lane until someone displays some courtesy, or can't get around you, and waves you in.

It's another horses for courses and what work at one time or place doesn't work at another.

common sense is more important that courtesy...........sometimes.

Oh, and approach the roundabout at an appropriate speed..ie. be able to stop comfortably, whatever the priority of the road.

Met my first round about in the UK in 1977. I went round..and round...and round..looking for the right exit in the snow and ice.
One in Sheffield was just plain dangerous at peak hour.
But if ya REALLY luv em, try Paris. There's no rules...you can even reverse backwards on the roundabout..if you're French.
I'm told the "smart cars" there can be lifted into a parking spot. Kinda makes a 3 point turn look cruisy :))

Here in QLD its "when in doubt put in a round a bout" and if that doesn't fix it put in traffic lights as well.

Regards
Rocky

How about this sucker:



Andrew

Yes well done for that pic Andrew, it says it all, have done spaghetti junction over there and also a roundabout in Edinbrough {spelling} with traffic lights have way round WTF !!!
took me by surprise but made me a bit more alert LOL
regards,
dave

Strewth - that's going to be hard to beat.

It looks like car parking spaces in the centre of that roundabout photo LOL

(what time of day did they take it? - bugger all cars to be seen!)

Don't show Brisbane Council that one.............

Try the one in Colchester, UK, same as Swindon but bigger!!! I had to negotiate my way round on my driving test and then every other week going too and from college!!!!
Believe me I don't complain about roundabouts in Australia no matter how busy they are, only the people who don't know how to use them and indicate!