Passed my theory test lads

[Ming the Merciless]

Oh. I wondered why the head of NASA laughed and ordered security to beat me up.

I thought he said to stick a rocket up your arse, after you’d mooned Aldrin and dared him to land on it.

 

[palinurus]

Are you taking in Boundary Way's new dutch roundabout on your commuting route?

You mean Britain's "most woke £2m roundabout"? It's on the wrong side of my commute, but I tried it!

 

[CXRAndy]

My dad passed his test driving forward 20 yards then reverse back

This was end of WW2

 

[T4tomo]

You mean Britain's "most woke £2m roundabout"? It's on the wrong side of my commute, but I tried it!

I did indeed.

I haven't been thru since it opened, but as I would be going on a weekend morning, its always quiet anyway I imagine I probably use the car route anyway. I do use the Buncefield lane "quiet-way" or whatever its called quite a bit as a route out to Gaddesdon Row or Rebourn and beyond. I would have been happy with them just resurfacing the woke roundabout to remove the potholes and trenches from it.

I'm not sure your average Hemel driver will get used to giving way whilst leaving a roundabout as well as when joining it.

 

[richardfm]

That's nothing. I met Buzz Aldrin at a book signing and he gave me a spaceship licence.

I got an astronaut's licence from The Cité de l'Espace in Toulouse

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Dutch roundabouts are great, and prioritise the right forms of transport

 

[T4tomo]

Dutch roundabouts are great, and prioritise the right forms of transport

They are, especially if they feature in numbers.

The issue with having the odd one in a random town is that the motorists don't what the fark they are doing and there is a an increased risk that the mow down the right form of transport in error.
particularly when its sited in the middle of an industrial estate so a lot of the traffic is HGV's, mixed in with lots of cars using it as a rat run to the M1 junction.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

motorists don't what the fark they are doing

True

 

[Bristolian]

My dad passed his test driving forward 20 yards then reverse back

This was end of WW2

I wondered what ended WW2 so suddenly

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I wondered what ended WW2 so suddenly

Reversed over you know who, and that was that. Apparently the instructor had asked him to take the Third Reich.

 

[palinurus]

They are, especially if they feature in numbers.

The issue with having the odd one in a random town is that the motorists don't what the fark they are doing and there is a an increased risk that the mow down the right form of transport in error.
particularly when its sited in the middle of an industrial estate so a lot of the traffic is HGV's, mixed in with lots of cars using it as a rat run to the M1 junction.

To drive this thread further off topic it probably also helps if the local authority had done anything effective to increase cycling share of journeys in the years leading up to building the roundabout- there's just not many cyclists around to use it. The Buncefield lane Quietway has some use but links to it are patchy or non-existent (in all likelihood the maintenance will be the same). Even the local authority's best planning scenarios are retaining car traffic at the 2024 baseline and trying to reduce growth by modal shift to PT/ active travel.