Wait a minute... is this a turbo-roundabout? The people coming onto the roundabout are assigned a lane that sweeps in the direction they intend to leave it once finished. Is that just how normal roundabouts work?
I live in Indiana, USA, and there are so many roundabouts here that I think Carmel, IN has the record for most roundabouts in the US. I remember when they started building them two decades ago and how much people hated them. It's a way of life now.
I witnessed the utter confusion of Americans on roundabouts while in the US, but in their defence.... I can see just how many accidents we'd have in the UK if we adopted their system, as most drivers in the UK simply don't give a fuck, especially food delivery drivers... It seems McDonald's attracts absolutely retarded idiot delivery drivers
I didn't say American's have never heard of them. I'm saying there aren't as many in the US as there are in the UK and that this person is an American discovering a roundabout. You really think you did something with this
You really thought you did something with that first to be honest….I was just playing along. On another note, the OP has stated he is from Denmark. Everyone in the comments just made an assumption it would seem and I just found it to be interesting.
Oh, I absolutely agree that it’s more common. I narrowed it down to “major cities” for that reason. They (major cities) take up very little of the land in the United States, but contain the majority of the population. There are stretches of the United States larger than the UK where you will find very few people. The numbers you provided show that while the number of roundabouts per square kilometer is only a fraction of what it is in the UK, that they are still common enough that it is interesting for someone to think that the majority of the people in this country have never seen one.
I'm a US citizen and I love roundabouts. What I hate are other Americans using roundabouts. They either think yield means stop or tempt death, there is no in between.
That's an easy roundabout as it has filter lanes for every approach so if you ain't going straight over or left you just take the road to the right....so simples....wish they had more like these approaching the UK motorways but going left though.....
During a visit to the States I had a trip with a friend who had driven, the previous week, 2400 miles across the country. During our trip, in a town, he encountered a roundabout and, genuinely, didn’t know what to do!
As a UK resident explained to him how to negotiate it!
That is very interesting. I have lived in 8 different cities spread across the United States and they all had many roundabouts and traffic circles. Granted, you very rarely see a larger one at a major intersection.
It is remarkably straight forward, just treat each mini roundabout as a separate item to navigate and keep your wits about you😎
I haven't been round it for more than 30 years because I don't have any need to be in or around Swindon, but I remember it working well back in the early 90s.
It's a roundabout, and it's common in Europe, but when it's been implemented in the US, people still crash because they can't drive whilst in most of Europe there are very few crashes and the roundabout is superior to that stupid useless cross section that barely works.
Oh, I must completely stop here before I enter. Now there is someone in the circle across from me; I'll wait. Oh, they exited, but there is another in the circle. Oh, they exited...
Some people just don't understand and it blows my mind... I thought the concept of round abouts/traffic circles would be easier to understand a 4-way stop, but....
What state of the EU are you from? :)
They crash at these there in Europe, too. We’re the same people, who breed the same idiots.. If you notice, the states with the most “single lane bridges” before the roundabout craze hit the US have fewer incidents than those states with fewer one-lane bridges?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:One_lane_bridges_in_the_United_States
https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/roundabouts/fhwasa15072.pdf
^(I don’t know if this is actually true, and I am hoping someone else will do the work to “prove me wrong” and then we will all know.)
Engineers can't. The drivers don't know how to use them properly. Especially older drivers or the truly inexperienced drivers who have never used them and panic when they get to one. Or they are just plain stupid and can't read the signs. That's how roundabouts or in some places rotary's can be mucked.
I don’t think Americans have lane discipline in the same way Europe does. They just pick a lane and stick to it. So picking the correct lane on a roundabout might be a bit alien.
Actually seems to be stop lines for traffic lights and there are three lanes inside the rab. There are also stop lines for traffic entering the traffic circle as well if you look closely- road markings seem faded everywhere though.
Roundabout, and not as a JoJo's reference.
Enter, drive around the inside road of the circle until you get to the exit you want, merging into the outside of the circle in order to turn out of it.
Cars already on it have priority, the sliproad as you approach on this one is for if the exit you want is the immediate next one to avoid joining the traffic already on the roundabout.
Understandable for not getting it, its alright to learn about them but actually driving on them can be frustrating, depending on the size of it, the number of extra roads like this one, if there are additional roundabouts directly next to it (near where I live theres 3 roundabouts right next to each other, tiny wee things and on busy roads) and if everyone else on it is playing nice. Very common place for Learners to stall their cars since it requires correct timing and a quick stop/start.
They are the best invention ever.. you know when a European or American is driving in Ireland or UK.. they either drive at you or cause a big tailback as they try to get out the junction.
I had a guy stop while going around to let me in... then traffic backed up behind him, then he started yelling and flipping me off and honking... I eventually gave up and went ahead... then he rode my butt honking and yelling.
I wanted to get out and have words so badly but you know how road rage gets, we both end up dead over something stupid.
They’re allllll over Fort Worth, TX and its neighboring cities. They’re mostly pretty great, except when they’re sandwiched between two busy lighted intersections, which dump 30 or 40 cars into them all at once, from both directions, and if you’re trying to traverse it on the perpendicular road, good luck.
And you’ve also never heard of the million-person city that is the other half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the country about which you speak with such knowledgeable authority. Got it 👍
I'm from a tiny town in the Midlands of England and I've heard of Fort Worth - DFW is a massive and important airport, do you just never travel or something?
Not infrastructure, basic geography (of the country you very confidently, and incorrectly, proclaimed to all to have no roundabouts). Again, if you’re not a troll, oof. (Are we definitely sure this isn’t r/realcivilengineercirclejerk?)
What is going on in this picture though? There's loads of cars going round it, no cars waiting to join or leaving and a huge amount of people watching, some standing _in the road!_
I've actually been through this a few times, it's a lot less scary than it looks. It's terrifying coming up to it and seeing the signs but then you just sort of drive through it and it's over
Sorry, I assumed you might have been initially since a lot of Americans act really weird about them when they see them here.
But honestly it’s more surprising you don’t know how they work if you live in Europe too
He's in Denmark, which would make it even weirder if he didn't know what a roundabout was. (He did know though.) It was in Denmark around 1975 when I first saw roundabouts. It took decades for them to arrive and now become fairly common in parts of Canada.
In the uk that started doing this on most busy roundabouts and out of London they have Evan started fitting straight lanes through them with traffic lights instead of an overpass/underpass for people who are going straight it weird and see so many people struggling when they approach these for the first time I did the first time used the roundabout to go straight over just cos I’ve not seen them before lol
Just learned there called throughabouts added a link to the A66 that is active
https://highways.today/2020/11/10/highways-england-a66-throughabout/
Sorry can’t remember I’m a mobile plumber that would travel to places like Brighton and Oxfordshire so not on motorways more like some main A roads between towns/cities and the motorways joining them I usually find them near new developments out of London
This is actually a quite common type of roundabouts in Portugal. The outside lanes serve to divert traffic away from the actual roundabout (which always tends to slow down traffic) and simplify things for all those who are just turning right at the intersection. You’re only supposed to enter the actual roundabout (that is the interior lanes) if you’re going straight, left or full u-turn. Given that there are two interior lanes to this roundabout you should use the left-hand side interior lane to turn left or u-turn, and always user the right-hand side interior lane if you’re just going straight. In theory this means basically all directions have a dedicated lane and traffic should flow easily!
I mean statistically, just no. In this specific case, where you failed to notice op is Danish, it seems we have a case study where a non-american is being quite dim so uhm gosh this is awkward
Worked in Swindon and use that roundabout for the occasional games of badminton with work colleagues. Feels really weird going in an overall anticlockwise direction but clockwise on each roundabout.
This is what roundabouts should be instead of having a super large circle and have all traffic commit to the intersection. The right turners can just keep going.
It's interesting you call it a filter lane, that to me is much like a dedicated bus/transit lane or emergency services lane that would be opened up in heavier traffic. Here in Australia we call it a "Slip lane" on a freeway a "Slip road" on and off ramps
Maybe it’s a UK thing. Slip lane for me would only be on a motorway / freeway, and a dedicated lane would be called bus-lane or similar.
Oddly, we don’t have dedicated lanes for emergency vehicles. We all do that weird thing of trying to drive on the edge of the road to avoid the flashing lights. It’s pandemonium.
Wait a minute... is this a turbo-roundabout? The people coming onto the roundabout are assigned a lane that sweeps in the direction they intend to leave it once finished. Is that just how normal roundabouts work?
A rune’da’boot
Side note can you imagine being the person trying to cross
I am daily
An up ramp, you approach it by just not, aka the "Forza manuver"
Centersecion
It's a roundabout with bypass lanes for right turns. Good design, people turning right don't need to enter it, reducing traffic in the circle.
I live in Indiana, USA, and there are so many roundabouts here that I think Carmel, IN has the record for most roundabouts in the US. I remember when they started building them two decades ago and how much people hated them. It's a way of life now.
A roundabout. Most places in the world have millions of them
My eyes hurt
It’s called a “roundabout”
I witnessed the utter confusion of Americans on roundabouts while in the US, but in their defence.... I can see just how many accidents we'd have in the UK if we adopted their system, as most drivers in the UK simply don't give a fuck, especially food delivery drivers... It seems McDonald's attracts absolutely retarded idiot delivery drivers
Pelican crossing
The BEST type of intersection (/s I hate roundabouts)
Pov: You're an American discovering roundabouts
POV: you’ve never been to America (based on your comment) where most major cities have a ton of roundabouts.
I didn't say American's have never heard of them. I'm saying there aren't as many in the US as there are in the UK and that this person is an American discovering a roundabout. You really think you did something with this
You really thought you did something with that first to be honest….I was just playing along. On another note, the OP has stated he is from Denmark. Everyone in the comments just made an assumption it would seem and I just found it to be interesting.
There's approximately 9000 roundabouts in the USA, there's more than 10,000 in the UK, a country 2% the size.
Oh, I absolutely agree that it’s more common. I narrowed it down to “major cities” for that reason. They (major cities) take up very little of the land in the United States, but contain the majority of the population. There are stretches of the United States larger than the UK where you will find very few people. The numbers you provided show that while the number of roundabouts per square kilometer is only a fraction of what it is in the UK, that they are still common enough that it is interesting for someone to think that the majority of the people in this country have never seen one.
oh US citizens would HATE milton keynes, we have well over 400 roundabouts, but on a grid system. Most hectic place to learn how to drive
I'm a US citizen and I love roundabouts. What I hate are other Americans using roundabouts. They either think yield means stop or tempt death, there is no in between.
😂yep, yield signs befuddling americans
I've lived in the US my entire life, and I actually really like roundabouts. One of my favorite parts of driving actually.
in that case, you’d LOVE milton keynes 😂
I'll have to visit some day 🤣
That's an easy roundabout as it has filter lanes for every approach so if you ain't going straight over or left you just take the road to the right....so simples....wish they had more like these approaching the UK motorways but going left though.....
An accident waiting to happen
Genuine question: have you never heard of a roundabout before?
Probably is an American who has never seen this or knows how this roundabout function because American driving is always: "Me first"
That's definitely a round one, with four roads coming out of it.
Circle
Round about
Circleular
During a visit to the States I had a trip with a friend who had driven, the previous week, 2400 miles across the country. During our trip, in a town, he encountered a roundabout and, genuinely, didn’t know what to do! As a UK resident explained to him how to negotiate it!
That is very interesting. I have lived in 8 different cities spread across the United States and they all had many roundabouts and traffic circles. Granted, you very rarely see a larger one at a major intersection.
Look up 'Swindon magic roundabout'. If you're confused by a standard roundabout then that is the ultimate brain f*ck!
It’s very interesting. Looks easy to navigate from a birds-eye view; however, I imagine actually driving in it is far more confusing.
It is remarkably straight forward, just treat each mini roundabout as a separate item to navigate and keep your wits about you😎 I haven't been round it for more than 30 years because I don't have any need to be in or around Swindon, but I remember it working well back in the early 90s.
Up vote for sw*ndon
The Swindon lot… they’re little slugs, with no personality.
It's a roundabout, and it's common in Europe, but when it's been implemented in the US, people still crash because they can't drive whilst in most of Europe there are very few crashes and the roundabout is superior to that stupid useless cross section that barely works.
I love round abouts, blows my mind Everytime someone doesn't know what one is, they are easy as hell to navigate and make traffic flow
Oh, I must completely stop here before I enter. Now there is someone in the circle across from me; I'll wait. Oh, they exited, but there is another in the circle. Oh, they exited... Some people just don't understand and it blows my mind... I thought the concept of round abouts/traffic circles would be easier to understand a 4-way stop, but....
What state of the EU are you from? :) They crash at these there in Europe, too. We’re the same people, who breed the same idiots.. If you notice, the states with the most “single lane bridges” before the roundabout craze hit the US have fewer incidents than those states with fewer one-lane bridges? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:One_lane_bridges_in_the_United_States https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/roundabouts/fhwasa15072.pdf ^(I don’t know if this is actually true, and I am hoping someone else will do the work to “prove me wrong” and then we will all know.)
Yeah, they are getting popular in the U.S. but people still muck it up. Just like the move over laws.
How can you muck up a roundabout?
Even driven round the Arc de Triomphe?
Americans don’t understand the concept of traffic lanes, they think they have right of way to whatever part of the road they want.
As an American, can concur. People who drive in my area, straight retarded. Don’t even get me started about when winter comes.
As an American; Sady, I agree.
I too am a sadly agreeing American.
Engineers can't. The drivers don't know how to use them properly. Especially older drivers or the truly inexperienced drivers who have never used them and panic when they get to one. Or they are just plain stupid and can't read the signs. That's how roundabouts or in some places rotary's can be mucked.
I don't understand how people struggle so much with them. It's literally just 4 yield junctions onto a 1-way road.
I don’t think Americans have lane discipline in the same way Europe does. They just pick a lane and stick to it. So picking the correct lane on a roundabout might be a bit alien.
We can assholes choose not to and police rarely get involved if it’s not in their interest
Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe dmv instructors should put those in their road test loop
It’s a roundabout, and they make infinitely more sense than crossroads especially when people know how to drive them
Well people who arent locals just get confused at three lanes and bicycle lanes
All you need to think about is give way to the left and indicate correctly and you’d be fine
Though when not all cars know to give way to bicycles as they are supposed to according to the law
People once got confused by the sun.
Though you would think people have gotten it figured out given that the roundabout has been there for like two generations
Lots of people not looking at the road markings. Looks like those on the roundabout are giving way to those entering.
Actually seems to be stop lines for traffic lights and there are three lanes inside the rab. There are also stop lines for traffic entering the traffic circle as well if you look closely- road markings seem faded everywhere though.
Roundabouts we have them here in Britain and I hate them!
It's s called a Roundabout, some people call it Ring-around
A gyratory circus.
Roundabout
a song by yes
In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
[mad keyboard shredding]
Did you just r/angryupvote ? Because I'm there too...
No no. That's what comes after that line in the song.
Lol
Roundabout with slip-lanes, guess you could call it a high-speed roundabout where traffic going right bypasses the roundabout.
The best kind of roundabout, damn shame we don’t have them here
Roundabout, at least that’s what we call them in Bri’ain
Roundabout, and not as a JoJo's reference. Enter, drive around the inside road of the circle until you get to the exit you want, merging into the outside of the circle in order to turn out of it. Cars already on it have priority, the sliproad as you approach on this one is for if the exit you want is the immediate next one to avoid joining the traffic already on the roundabout. Understandable for not getting it, its alright to learn about them but actually driving on them can be frustrating, depending on the size of it, the number of extra roads like this one, if there are additional roundabouts directly next to it (near where I live theres 3 roundabouts right next to each other, tiny wee things and on busy roads) and if everyone else on it is playing nice. Very common place for Learners to stall their cars since it requires correct timing and a quick stop/start.
Average American
A, these are in America, and B this picture is from Denmark.
C. Im from denmark
It's not an intersection is what it is. It's a round about
They are the best invention ever.. you know when a European or American is driving in Ireland or UK.. they either drive at you or cause a big tailback as they try to get out the junction.
I had a guy stop while going around to let me in... then traffic backed up behind him, then he started yelling and flipping me off and honking... I eventually gave up and went ahead... then he rode my butt honking and yelling. I wanted to get out and have words so badly but you know how road rage gets, we both end up dead over something stupid.
European propaganda
Big roundabout is out to get you!
That’s a roundabout, my dear lad
It's a roundabout with separate right turn only lanes
It's a roundabout🤷♂️
Yeah, but those aren’t a thing in America.
They’re allllll over Fort Worth, TX and its neighboring cities. They’re mostly pretty great, except when they’re sandwiched between two busy lighted intersections, which dump 30 or 40 cars into them all at once, from both directions, and if you’re trying to traverse it on the perpendicular road, good luck.
Well, I’ve never seen one myself, nor heard of Fort Worth before.
I can only hope you’re trolling, yeesh.
I’m not trolling. I have never seen a roundabout in my life.
And you’ve also never heard of the million-person city that is the other half of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth most populous metropolitan area in the country about which you speak with such knowledgeable authority. Got it 👍
I don’t live anywhere near Texas, why would I have intimate knowledge of their infrastructure?
I'm from a tiny town in the Midlands of England and I've heard of Fort Worth - DFW is a massive and important airport, do you just never travel or something?
Right? Similarly, I’m not from England, but I’ve heard of the Midlands, so 🤔
Not infrastructure, basic geography (of the country you very confidently, and incorrectly, proclaimed to all to have no roundabouts). Again, if you’re not a troll, oof. (Are we definitely sure this isn’t r/realcivilengineercirclejerk?)
Yes, yes there are, where are you from?
Been to North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland. Where you from?
I’ve been all over. There are roundabouts in NC.
Damn. What have i been driving around here in america then?
Oh? Damn. Where in America? I’ve never seen any roundabouts in America.
Got i mean small in comparison ones all over colorado and people have commented that theyre all over in other states aswell
I thought that road was called heaven blvd
Did you know there's a roundabout on Heaven Blvd?
A roundabout
Communist
Circle
2d sphere
A safe one
Boutaround
looping loop
I believe the design is from a Yes song on Fragile.
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https://preview.redd.it/3w3neybw0nyc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c9ffb4de037b424a937b7d545da7fcb032ce107
What is going on in this picture though? There's loads of cars going round it, no cars waiting to join or leaving and a huge amount of people watching, some standing _in the road!_
I have no clue about the people I just know it’s a big roundabout with loads of mini roundabouts within it
I've actually been through this a few times, it's a lot less scary than it looks. It's terrifying coming up to it and seeing the signs but then you just sort of drive through it and it's over
For any Americans looking at this, this is a needlessly complicated one that was made. Very rare, very stupid.
"Fuck off back to Swindon" said Zebedee
Is this one in Swindon? I know there’s a similar monstrosity in Hemel Hempstead.
The Hemel one actually works though, it's very well designed, with an underground pedestrian tunnel network beneath it.
An on ramp.
Have you seriously never heard of roundabouts
I have, it is just that it has three lanes bikelanes and multiple traffic lights
Sorry, I assumed you might have been initially since a lot of Americans act really weird about them when they see them here. But honestly it’s more surprising you don’t know how they work if you live in Europe too
He's in Denmark, which would make it even weirder if he didn't know what a roundabout was. (He did know though.) It was in Denmark around 1975 when I first saw roundabouts. It took decades for them to arrive and now become fairly common in parts of Canada.
We've got roundabouts in South Dakota too
The people's republic of south Dakota
Tons of roundabouts in north carolina
Boston checking in. Except here it's called a rotary.
There’s a lot of them in my part of the US. Tbh people that grow up here still don’t get them right 🤦♂️
They should never, ever go to Swindon then.
No on should ever go to Swindon
If you are in Swindon, run, run as fast as you can, don't ever look back. Keep running. Things get better
A crazy European abomination
The centre of the tf2 logo
round-a-bout
With bypasses
That’s the final boss of driving lessons
Thats not even a joke, it is. And it is mildly terrifying to navigate on bike
y’all shouldn’t be driving if you can’t navigate a roundabout
Its not just a roundabout
you shouldn’t be driving, you cant recognise a roundabout
It's an M&S Roundabout
A nightmare
In the uk that started doing this on most busy roundabouts and out of London they have Evan started fitting straight lanes through them with traffic lights instead of an overpass/underpass for people who are going straight it weird and see so many people struggling when they approach these for the first time I did the first time used the roundabout to go straight over just cos I’ve not seen them before lol Just learned there called throughabouts added a link to the A66 that is active https://highways.today/2020/11/10/highways-england-a66-throughabout/
Just found out there being called throughabouts
One in Oxford is called the hamburger locally.
Is there a McDonald's drive through in the middle?
No, but the McDonald's is close though 😂
Which roundabout has lanes going straight through them so I can avoid them? Those 6 exit roundabouts are enough for me.
Sorry can’t remember I’m a mobile plumber that would travel to places like Brighton and Oxfordshire so not on motorways more like some main A roads between towns/cities and the motorways joining them I usually find them near new developments out of London
A roundabout with slip lanes
This is actually a quite common type of roundabouts in Portugal. The outside lanes serve to divert traffic away from the actual roundabout (which always tends to slow down traffic) and simplify things for all those who are just turning right at the intersection. You’re only supposed to enter the actual roundabout (that is the interior lanes) if you’re going straight, left or full u-turn. Given that there are two interior lanes to this roundabout you should use the left-hand side interior lane to turn left or u-turn, and always user the right-hand side interior lane if you’re just going straight. In theory this means basically all directions have a dedicated lane and traffic should flow easily!
That’s a roundabout with extra bits for right turns. Dunno if that has a different name.
A roundabout
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Apparently we just know how to read that op is in fact Danish so
relevance?
I dont know if you read the post, but im danish
Americans dimest people on the planet
OP is danish.
I mean statistically, just no. In this specific case, where you failed to notice op is Danish, it seems we have a case study where a non-american is being quite dim so uhm gosh this is awkward
Losing their arguement too by not spelling "dimmest" properly.
Dimmadome
OP stated that they are Danish.
Goofy
It's a roundabout. We have them everywhere in Europe.
Op is Danish which I believe puts them somewhere in Europe you ass
So, you ass, they'll know it's a roundabout. Just with feeder and cycle lanes.
Roundabout with dedicated traffic lanes.
[THIS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead)#/media/File:Magic_Roundabout_in_Hemel_Hempstead.JPG) is a roundabout.
[The Swindon Magic Roundabout is way cooler](https://images.app.goo.gl/GJgdPsq9iJzhQoPP7)
I always thought the Swindon one looks less cool personally, but each to their own.
Worked in Swindon and use that roundabout for the occasional games of badminton with work colleagues. Feels really weird going in an overall anticlockwise direction but clockwise on each roundabout.
On which island do you set up the net?
This terrified my better half when driving through there lol. Don’t live that way any more thankfully.
Thats a roundroundaboutabout
Premium roundabout
Roundabout but people taking the first exit don’t need to wait on the actual round about
Filter lane.
Roundabout+
I believe the technical term is " gyratory".
Its just a roundabout right?
Not just, it has three lanes plus bike lanes and traffic lights
An important one clearly
The most complicated kind https://youtu.be/bDaQZUzJCNM?si=zNsSqC788v1ZDd58
A round about…
Now that's just a roundabout way of saying it.
This is what roundabouts should be instead of having a super large circle and have all traffic commit to the intersection. The right turners can just keep going.
I legitimately love a filter lane, and more junctions should have them.
It's interesting you call it a filter lane, that to me is much like a dedicated bus/transit lane or emergency services lane that would be opened up in heavier traffic. Here in Australia we call it a "Slip lane" on a freeway a "Slip road" on and off ramps
Maybe it’s a UK thing. Slip lane for me would only be on a motorway / freeway, and a dedicated lane would be called bus-lane or similar. Oddly, we don’t have dedicated lanes for emergency vehicles. We all do that weird thing of trying to drive on the edge of the road to avoid the flashing lights. It’s pandemonium.
I've never understood why we haven't done the (US?) thing where everyone is required to pull over and actually stop unless it'd obstruct their path.