Roundabouts gone wrong!

[nerdly_dood]

Yeah - and it's a two-way rouundabouut too - very rare...

Also I found one of those flawed roundabouts I posted above in Madrid, so they aren't only in Barcelona like i'd thought...
But the first one TTC showed is truly the murdered roundabout...

[threestooges]

If I were old enough to drive, I would probaley get killed at that first UK "roundabout." Did you notice that the red car in the third picture looks like it just drove over the center!

That it does, but looking at the pic above it, it looks like that truck's trailer is about to roll right over the center (or may just miss it entirely) and go on the opposite side. I'm guessing that wasn't the anticipated vehicle for that area.

[Pat]

Derry I would say that you would be easier to just go straight on your bike threw those roundabouts that have gone sooo wrong lol.......

[j-dub]

Sorry for this old picture with the crossroads not there yet, it makes it look accident free, but the truth is there is no stop signs here, and people here for some reason think YIELD means go, but there are no signs even informing you need to do that. In fact, my life sort of is the reason they selected my suburb to put one of these circles in, since I almost got smooshed by this old lady, they promised to improove the intersection, since she didn't know what yield meant, then they put school crossing signs up on the right of way, then they replaced yield with stop, and finally a traffic circle was constructed for always to slow down, except the 2 stop signs crossing stayed. However, it was so bad, they made 7 attemts to change the signs in the middle of the traffic circle, until they finally got custom arrows, but you can still speed straight through at 40 mph on the one side, due to uncareful foreign labored construction, not curved enough. Roundabouts are so bad, my grandfather couldn't get to my house, because he got spun around, he only missed it by a block. My state's policy is traffic improovement, only After a fatality in incorporated areas.

From what I understand, TTC's roundabout, despite the complication, really gets you to slowdown. Although I don't see why so much. America on the otherhand, this round about, there is just no control here, and they allow the right lanes to go through all the way, rather then turn off. I think that is dangerous, because you can be crossing in that right lane, while someone from the left is speeding through the middle lane, and broadsides ya, but maybe vice verca. Its just again, no stop signs. There is heavy 8 way round about in this state, that actually says STOP, with the 2 right turn only arrows. Maybe this circle here, it very right lanes should have been strictly for only turning at that spot. Now you see how there is an arrow left before the entrance, I have seen trucks drive the wrong way through here but I've also seen them try to drive the wrong side of oneway streets in neighborhoods as well. Stop signs or not, since they get blown anyway, this state just has issues with controlling traffic, and is considering more roundabouts.
And I guess funny enforcement in this state the federal government didn't like.
In an unrelated story, stop signs in my state gone wrong.

[Pat]

LoL J-Dub gotta love IDOT and their way of thinking when traffic control is warnted...  I also love the way Oak Lawn is thinking there too!!!

[CasperVg]

More gone-wrong roundabouts (I hope they weren't posted before  )

[Pat]

those are truly gone wrong there Cas!!

[sim-al2]

You wonder why the second to last has an overpass, which sorta defeats the purpose of the roundabout in the first place(unless it's off a highway or something), and in the fourth, fifth,and last, you wonder what the drivers were (or weren't) thinking!