Roundabouts gone wrong!

[Vandy]

Hi, Pat.

You're more than welcome for the link.  I'm glad I could provide it for you.

Here are some more links you might be interested in:

Roundabouts - How roundabouts work

Dakota County Roundabouts

Modern Roundabouts

All About the Roundabout

Caledonia Roundabout

Roundabouts FAQ

Italian Round About
Even though this is just a rendered drawing, I thought it was interesting enough to include.

Roundabout Search
Select Wisconsin as the State and leave allother choices default.  It will return a list of roundabout information that can be viewed in detail.  No pictures, though.

I think you'll find some interesting items to view and read about in the above links.

Enjoy.

Regards,

Gary

[Pat]

thanks a million here Gary you rock!!!

[threestooges]

I noticed this thread and just had to take a look. The first one isn't so bad (though it has certainly gone wrong), but the one Vester posted... that just scares me. I tried following it visually but wow... we have a roundabout just a few blocks south of my law school (just one, and it's only two lanes wide). I'm curious to know if that multi-roundabout system works well or if it is just fun to drive around.

[Shadow Assassin]

If you Americans don't like roundabouts, don't even think about visiting Milton Keynes in the UK. 

Americans, approach with great caution.
Let's see how many roundabouts we can count in the picture...

[RippleJet]

About a month ago, one Saturday morning at 05:00, two youngsters jacked a car in a small town in the middle of Sweden.
Obviously they weren't too familiar with the traffic layout in their neighbourhood...

Considering where they ended up, the local authorities are now planning more roundabouts.
All in order to catch future potential car jackers...

[Pat]

LoL now that is sad really sad there Tage....

[Ennedi]

About a month ago, one Saturday morning at 05:00, two youngsters jacked a car in a small town in the middle of Sweden.
Obviously they weren't too familiar with the traffic layout in their neighbourhood...

I don't know if the driver was enough experienced, but this roundabout is simply too small for an average car and it is horribly uneven!
And I was thinking only in Poland roadworks are made carelessly...

[Pat]

LoL Adam it seems that Finland and polish have something in common when it comes to road design lol

[metasmurf]

Ok, these might not be that crazy, but they're perfect examples of what happens when you make cutbacks in funding for the road department. Both pictures are from my hometown Umeå, north Sweden.

E4/E12 interchange. Instead of building a real interchange, with on/offramps, they made this one. A huge roundabout with a slip lane.



Well, this one is a bit crazy actually. These are roundabouts around Teg's Centrum connecting to E4. Confusing? Very much so!

[nerdly_dood]

Yeah I know that instead of chastising someone for bumping a thread I'm adding my own input... But I have some roundabout pictures that I feel need to be shown.

Here are a couple satelllite photos I, um, borrowed, from Google Earth. These roundabout variants are somewhat common in Barcelona and throughout Spain for intersecting a primary road with a secondary street. IMO they entirely defeat the purpose of a roundabout...

[Pat]

Smurf those are very confussing indeed and Nerdly I agree that does defeet the purpose of a roundabout lol..

[threestooges]

It may have bumped the thread, but these things are interesting enough that I think it is warranted. Nice finds guys.

[MandelSoft]

LOL! That Spanish roundabout is completely useless! It could have been a normal 4-way intersection

[Ryan B.]

Michigan's gotta be laughing right now . . . . . that's totally a jughandle gone wrong!

[papab2000]

Speaking of Michigan  Engineers had a better idea and decided if one roundabout was good then why not try a double!    Check this out, this double is located at US 23 and Lee Rd in Brighton, MI. Not only is there a double but if you look closely you will see 3 more in a very short space on the right side of US 23.

[Sheep49]

How about masters of the worst road-building - Polishman!


Roundabout in Częstochowa - As you can see, the road of 21st century

BONUS:

In Gdynia, it's nothing special, you know.

[MandelSoft]

Strange, we dutchmen hire in polish workers for construction 

[TheTeaCat]

Some weird variations on roundabouts there folks

Not only in Spain do they managed to build weird roundabouts
they do it here in the UK too
for example how about this



But can you top this?

5 mini roundabouts in a roundabout


Yes that's correct 5 in 1



Now let me tell you this is not a nice junction to navigate by bicycle
Not one bit - tooo many close shaves here


TTC

[sebes]

The roundabouts that look useless because they are at a 4-way crossing are in fact very handy - and the ONLY roundabout that I like (i hate the normal ones). The purpose of these "roundabouts" is to avoid that straight on traffic is hampered that way by left-turning cars waiting for oncoming traffic....

[sim-al2]

I could say that Europeans are crazy , but since this is an international site, I will say that European traffic engineers are crazy(or out of a job! )


EDIT: 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!