• WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Wait until you see the magic roundabout in the UK. It’s a “close your eyes, pray and hit the gas” type of place.

    • Asetru@feddit.org
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      4 months ago

      I’ve seen this so often before and I still don’t understand why they didn’t just build an ordinary roundabout. It’s just six roads that meet there. That’s not beyond ordinary roundabout capabilities. Who said “you know what, let’s just do a circular arrangement of five roundabouts here, that’s so much better than what people are used to”?

  • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I knew a girl who was instructed to turn left at a roundabout, so she proceeded to turn left when merging into the roundabout.

    Poor girl, fortunately everything was fine (she did fail, but no accidents) but that’s a special kind of ‘too literal’ that loops back around to being dumb.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      And that’s why turn-by-turn navigation systems phrase it as “take the third exit from the roundabout” these days.

      • gnu@lemmy.zip
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        4 months ago

        One of the work trucks used to have one that said “Go straight through the roundabout”. It was pretty tempting sometimes to take it at its word…

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Turnabout fucking sucks.

    Way more go wrong than lights, increase car to car interactions massively, inappropriate european fad. This for place that don’t mind getting bog down doing more than an hour to get 50km away because they don’t have important things to do

    • kuhore@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I’ll just put this here so people can actually get som real info and not the nonsense you are spewing.

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        3 months ago

        I won’t be reading roubdabout propaganda and the reader shouldn’t either. We seen first hand these things proliferate and make driving even more of a chore dumped on travellers willy nilly.

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      4 months ago

      Traffic circles are safer, reduce maintenance costs, slows the fucking speeders and more efficient than your fucking stop sign and signal intersections.

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        3 months ago

        Turns travel into a slog. Turnabout land is infected, essentially a cancerous mass growing out of the city, taking over the land, urbanisation.