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Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
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.
 

T4tomo

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

I did indeed. :okay:

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.
 

T4tomo

Legendary Member
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

There is no mercy
Location
Inside my skull
motorists don't what the fark they are doing

True
 
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palinurus

palinurus

Velo, boulot, dodo
Location
Watford
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.
 
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