Anyone live in Swindon?

[Gef]

If so can you please explain to me how the fuck this roundabout works? I think the designer must have been on some pretty strong acid...

"Heh yeah man lets make pretty shapes"

 

[Will]

We have some unusual roundabouts in Edinburgh. You just treat each section as its own roundabout, and its fine.

Did that make any sense? Its easier to drive it than to explain it.

 

[dysfunction]

Yes but in that one....

The Large Circle In the centre you go ANTICLOCKWISE!! And the small ones you go CLOCKWISE!!

 

[Gef]

I think the safest bet is to just follow the car in front

 

[mank!]

heh, the football ground is just to the left of that pic \o/

one sec and I'll find a diagram.

Here, you'll need to scroll down to 'Places of interest' and it explains how it works with a diagram to boot.

 

[Testin da Cable]

lol that roundabout is insane

 

[Gef]

Heh quote from that site mank..

"Located near one corner of the ground is the 'Magic Roundabout'. Whoever designed this must have been on something. It is a large island surrounded by five mini roundabouts, which effectively means that traffic can go round the main roundabout the wrong way! Confused? I was!"

 

[Wij]

That is fucked.

 

[Summo]

Curiously fascinating. I've been staring, trying to 'drive' my eyes round it and several times I've collided with cars and killed pedestrains, long-since separated from their vehicles yet unable to leave The Arena.

:/

 

[xane]

Full instructions for contra-rotating roundabouts were in the old style Highway Code.

Edit: I referred to an AA book before, forgot the name

 

[dysfunction]

Originally posted by dysfunction
The Large Circle in the centre you go ANTICLOCKWISE!! And the small ones you go CLOCKWISE!!

Its quite simple really


And the very large circle you can go clockwise around...

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by Summo
Curiously fascinating. I've been staring, trying to 'drive' my eyes round it and several times I've collided with cars and killed pedestrains, long-since separated from their vehicles yet unable to leave The Arena.

:/

ditto, and to make it nastier I drive on the proper side of the road too!

 

[mank!]

It's the thing I really dread about learning to drive. Fortunately I think you can get into town without going round that abomination, something I shall avoid for all of eternity :/

 

[Gef]

Originally posted by mank!
It's the thing I really dread about learning to drive. Fortunately I think you can get into town without going round that abomination, something I shall avoid for all of eternity :/

Your instructor will probably avoid it for fear of his life, but you just know that when you take a test the examiner will be in a particularly cunty mood...

 

[Wij]

If you look at it in a certain way it vaguely resembles a 5-way goatse.

 

[Summo]

*shudder*

 

[Testin da Cable]

we should have a :goatse: smiley

 

[Wij]

There is one but they never put it on BW.

 

[Sawtooth]

Yes I live in Swindon and shoot through that roundabout everyday.
It works quite well but does get a bit gridlocked Saturday lunchtime.

 

[Summo]

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by Summo

hmm. not quite what I expected tbh

 

[ECA]

Nobody mentioned the bunny goatse smiley i posted on a thread a while back....

 

[Testin da Cable]

post it again!!1

 

[ECA]

I can't remember where I found it or what thread I posted it on.