31-01-2015, 04:56 PM
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Re: Mini roundabouts
The whole point about roundabouts is that you are supposed to give way to your right.It gets confusing though when cars arrive at millisecond intervals at various exits - who has the right of way?
For us older folk it's not always easy - our reaction times are well-down on the 17-year-old boy racers in their 10-year-old bog standard Fiesta with silly wheels and lowered suspension so I thought, why not have one of those green-tinted window stickers stuck inside your windscreen with Daft old git on board then you can carefully lurch out in your Fabia, give them the old forgot-me-dentures-again smile and off you go, knowing full well they won't get too close in case you go for the sudden braking-for-now-apparent-reason!
Sounds like a plan to me. stevmk2
31-01-2015, 11:40 PM
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Re: Mini roundabouts
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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They have installed one of those in Kettering where there used to be traffic lights. I think the traffic flow is improved but you really do have to keep your wits about you.
That's very true Alan, though I haven't met the Kettering one yet. There are a couple of awful double ones at Bedford, and I find them horrible things to negotiate, and there are always those drivers who try to nip in when they shouldn't.
01-02-2015, 06:49 AM
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I was fortunately lucky enough to see the first roundabout in Orlando Florida or at least where we stayed when we went to see Disney World for the first time. The confusion of the American drivers was something not to be missed. They actually had to have the police there to get drivers to use it properly|
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