Mega Roundabout outside UK?
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Re: Mega Roundabout outside UK?
Unfortunately, in practise, you still encounter lane-changers part way around. This might be due to them not knowing their destination's name/number, or unfamiliar drivers not realising that it is spirally marked. The fact that there are two modes of lane marking (minority spiral versus majority concentric) causes the confusion and problems.
Re: Mega Roundabout outside UK?
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Re: Mega Roundabout outside UK?
These are the absolute worst, and far too common.Chris5156 wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 10:58 You also get - distressingly often - attempts at spiral marking that don’t work because whoever painted them thought they had a clearer idea of how to do it than they really did. The worst of them start you off in a marked lane that changes it’s destination halfway round, so you have to change lanes anyway, or where the markings vanish around each entry and exit point, reappearing totally misaligned with the flow of traffic afterwards.
White City Circle in Salford/Trafford must be one of the worst for this, as it actively encourages you to cut up two other lanes of traffic at one point. As it straddles the border no one wants to take ownership.
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Re: Mega Roundabout outside UK?
Now long vanished, thankfully, but the roundabout below the A1 at the Selby Fork interchange (A1/A63) was a horror show. It had two lanes marked around it, but the destinations painted on the road kept moving left a lane as you went round.Bryn666 wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 11:42These are the absolute worst, and far too common.Chris5156 wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 10:58 You also get - distressingly often - attempts at spiral marking that don’t work because whoever painted them thought they had a clearer idea of how to do it than they really did. The worst of them start you off in a marked lane that changes it’s destination halfway round, so you have to change lanes anyway, or where the markings vanish around each entry and exit point, reappearing totally misaligned with the flow of traffic afterwards.
White City Circle in Salford/Trafford must be one of the worst for this, as it actively encourages you to cut up two other lanes of traffic at one point. As it straddles the border no one wants to take ownership.
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Re: Mega Roundabout outside UK?
The other design faux pas is trying to fit spiral layouts onto tiny circulatory carriageways, such as those on the new Congleton Bypass.Chris5156 wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 15:26Now long vanished, thankfully, but the roundabout below the A1 at the Selby Fork interchange (A1/A63) was a horror show. It had two lanes marked around it, but the destinations painted on the road kept moving left a lane as you went round.Bryn666 wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 11:42These are the absolute worst, and far too common.Chris5156 wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 10:58 You also get - distressingly often - attempts at spiral marking that don’t work because whoever painted them thought they had a clearer idea of how to do it than they really did. The worst of them start you off in a marked lane that changes it’s destination halfway round, so you have to change lanes anyway, or where the markings vanish around each entry and exit point, reappearing totally misaligned with the flow of traffic afterwards.
White City Circle in Salford/Trafford must be one of the worst for this, as it actively encourages you to cut up two other lanes of traffic at one point. As it straddles the border no one wants to take ownership.
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Re: Mega Roundabout outside UK?
It reminds me a bit of an enormous Owler Bar!Owain wrote: ↑Tue May 25, 2021 15:58I got lost on it once, in the middle of the night. The really funny thing was a local followed me off at the wrong exit - even though I had an obviously foreign car - and we both had to U-turn to get back to the correct route!
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From the SABRE Wiki: Owler Bar :
Owler Bar is an elongated roundabout/longabout in Derbyshire, near Chesterfield.
It appears that there was an "Owler Bar Turnpike Trust" so presumably the bar is in reference to it being a turnpike gate (the Toll House Cottage next to the Peacock Inn being another clue).
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