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GUEST,DaveRo BS: driving on the wrong side of the road (66* d) RE: BS: driving on the wrong side of the road 19 Nov 14


The Magic Roundabout at Hemel might seem complicated but you just have to break it down into its components. It's 6 mini-islands joined by 6 very short roads that happen to be in a big circle. It works really well!

The words roundabout and island are more-or-less interchangeable, BTW. A mini-island is one with no middle to go round, or just a painted circle or a raised lump. It's acceptable to drive straight over it. I call it a 'logical island'.

More common than the Magic Roundabout (are there others?) is the double island, two logical islands with co-incident edges. Sometimes three. These need caution! Again, break it into parts: it's just two island with a zero-length road between. I call them 'occluded islands'

Aylesbury had a nice collection of doubles and triples but has recently taken to reinstalling traffic lights which is a backwards step IMO. (I was driving in the US recently; God! All those traffic lights!)


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