Re: she won't budge!

That looks like pure evil. I bet the car body repair and paint shops love that thing.

.................That magic roundabout is awsome. How big is it? I mean, how fast could you go on the small circles?

I last went round it a year or so ago, before that, 10 years previous, so from shady memory, the small ones are only about 8 foot across, but nobody gets really close except busses & lorries which drive over them. When i was younger & more carefree (!!) me & mates used to drive over there just to go round it. You sort of go round the whole thing clockwise on the outside, and anticlockwise round the inside. Its really not as bad as it looks if you are used to individual roundabouts. The signs coming upto it do not help, mind. Just don't hesitate, or you've had it.

a pic of a smaller version here

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:10:04 +0300, Jan left Mt Vesuvius in a state of jealous awe as he began spewing from the mouth thusly:

I'll have you know that I have a single cab, non-dualie, Ford pick-up truck. Get your stereotypes right! ;-P

-- Travis '63 VW Camo Baja...

Hey now, I resemble that remark.

Randy

~ > > They have round-a-bouts in boston? wow....... I thought that was just a ~ > > european thing. ~ >

~ > And an ACVW is what, Bumsenkopf? ~ >

~ ~ This is what we have to deal with here... ~

Well thanks, I know now never to drive in Hemel Hempstead lol

I would not even want to venture close to one of those here in the USA. Most SUVs would just run right through them at full speed, while talking on the cell phone, sipping starbucks, curling hair and reading the morning paper.

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:20:28 +0100, "Juper Wort" left Mt Vesuvius in a state of jealous awe as he began spewing from the mouth thusly:

All kinds of free stuff! Look here:

-- Travis '63 VW Camo Baja...

I've read, that once people wrap their head around it, this style of roundabout is actually quite efficient:

The interesting bit is that the system has scaled well over the years, and traffic remains fluid even during rush hour. I'd like to see a standard four way intersection make that claim. ;)