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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha
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PostPosted: 06:51 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: maddest junctions Reply with quote
What're some strange junctions you know? I nominate the series of random roundabouts, bonsai intersections and abstract lane changes that make up Smallthorne roundabout between Hanley and Burslem in Stoke. Essentially it's three roundabouts a few yards apart, but has myriad other ins and outs thrown in for bad measure. Smiler will know it, I reckon. The funny thing is despite the anarchy of it, it kind of works (probably cos locals know what to expect):

https://members.modernvespa.net/fabio_dougie/uploads/4722_12_11_07_4_32_37_114.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSP2ZRAln0w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGlvQTtrRTs
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PostPosted: 06:59 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Poor effort that.


https://i.imgur.com/GbkIN.jpg
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PostPosted: 07:54 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
Poor effort that.


https://i.imgur.com/GbkIN.jpg



How the hell does this even work?! D:
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PostPosted: 07:57 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Knight wrote:
CaNsA wrote:
Poor effort that.


https://i.imgur.com/GbkIN.jpg



How the hell does this even work?! D:


Been round it once in a car and oddly enough its piss easy. You just have to remember the middle roundabout goes the wrong way. Everything else is just normal roundabouts. It just looks scary.

I vote any junction in Portsmouth on a weekend at around midnight when Aquacabs are out in numbers taking chavs to and from the nightclubs. Its dicing with death at every turn and even some straight roads are death traps.
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PostPosted: 07:57 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
Poor effort that.


Yeah soz about not living in Wiltshire. Mr. Green

So on that note let me make it a bit more explicit - maddest junctions you know.
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PostPosted: 08:08 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
CaNsA wrote:
Poor effort that.


https://i.imgur.com/GbkIN.jpg


Poor design, it would have been better as one larger round about.
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PostPosted: 08:31 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is probably the strangest one near me, its on a roundabout.

Confuses the shit out of non-londoners and foreigners.

Caused a lot of accidents.

Know which one is the right one to follow?............ none, its a sculpture lol
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PostPosted: 09:23 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
CaNsA wrote:
Poor effort that.


https://i.imgur.com/GbkIN.jpg


Poor design, it would have been better as one larger round about.


Apparently it used to be a massive roundabout with traffic lights and was a complete nightmare. Don't know if that's true or not, but it works pretty well now most of the time.

It is a bit daunting at first though Smile
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PostPosted: 09:39 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
WindyMiller wrote:


Apparently it used to be a massive roundabout with traffic lights and was a complete nightmare. Don't know if that's true or not, but it works pretty well now most of the time.

It is a bit daunting at first though Smile


Sometimes road planners go for the most complicated answer. Many a time just getting the light phase right by a second or so will cure a lot of issues, or getting rid of so many white lines on the road. Keep things simple and it will work.
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PostPosted: 10:36 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
This one is similar to the Swindon one in Colchester
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PostPosted: 10:51 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
pinkyfloyd wrote:


I vote any junction in Portsmouth on a weekend at around midnight when Aquacabs are out in numbers taking chavs to and from the nightclubs. Its dicing with death at every turn and even some straight roads are death traps.


I agree about Aquacars!
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PostPosted: 11:19 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
When I saw the title I automatically thought of the Smallthorne islands. It looks a lot neater on that aerial view than it actually is and typical of a council the last alterations have made it worse than it was originally. Locals only survive because they know to pick a lane then just go for it Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 11:45 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
raesewell wrote:
This one is similar to the Swindon one in Colchester


Hemel Hempsted and High Wycombe both have a magic roundabout too. I went over the High Wycombe one on my CBT.

Just buying a flat in Colchester so I'm sure I'll experience it sometime soon!
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PostPosted: 12:23 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bezzer wrote:
When I saw the title I automatically thought of the Smallthorne islands. It looks a lot neater on that aerial view than it actually is and typical of a council the last alterations have made it worse than it was originally. Locals only survive because they know to pick a lane then just go for it Mr. Green


Yeah my uncle stan rolled a mini on there once back in the early '70s. God knows how fast he was going. You a Stokie then Bezzer?
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PostPosted: 13:08 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Skudd wrote:
CaNsA wrote:
Poor effort that.


https://i.imgur.com/GbkIN.jpg


Poor design, it would have been better as one larger round about.


Not so - this layout allows you to nip from one junction to the next without needing to go the whole way around.

Basically a smaller version of this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Sadlers_farm_roundabout.jpg
(Which has now been redeveloped with flyovers)
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PostPosted: 13:13 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
trevor machine wrote:

Yeah my uncle stan rolled a mini on there once back in the early '70s. God knows how fast he was going. You a Stokie then Bezzer?


Yep, unfortunately Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 13:15 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sadlers Farm is so much easier now with the new flyovers, some of the light patterns coming from Basildon end need to be changed though, dont stay green long enough, and even when they do turn green, you are stopped because the ones ahead are red.
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PostPosted: 13:24 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Supermoto_Fan wrote:
Sadlers Farm is so much easier now with the new flyovers, some of the light patterns coming from Basildon end need to be changed though, dont stay green long enough, and even when they do turn green, you are stopped because the ones ahead are red.


For me it's brilliant, these days I go along the A130, underneath the A127 and out towards London, so now I don't need to touch Sadlers at all.
But the old 'multi-roundabout' layout used to work way better than the old single big roundabout.
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PostPosted: 13:50 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Josh.silverman wrote:
This is probably the strangest one near me, its on a roundabout.

Confuses the shit out of non-londoners and foreigners.

Caused a lot of accidents.

Know which one is the right one to follow?............ none, its a sculpture lol
It's not been on that roundabout for quite a while now, in fact the roundabout has gone.

The traffic light tree is currently in bits, stored in a warehouse. It's going back up soon, most likely outside Billingsgate fish market, depending on the results of our trial holes.
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the A130 haha, always full of traffic cops trying to catch speeding bikes especially on a Sunday, they always sit in one of the many laybys on the road.

Where abouts are you from? Smile
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I'll never forget rolling into Hemel about a week after passing my driving test, I'd checked the A-Z Road Atlas carefully so I knew exactly where to go Cool , and then I see this sign! Shocked WTF that AIN'T in the highway code. Then I find I'm in a sea of roundabouts with cars going round in both directions. Shocked Shocked


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PostPosted: 18:04 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
the only one near me is Chester's "hamburger roundabout" its not on areal view but from this link you can see what its like I've seen cars do all sorts and lorries having to do 90 degree turns to get round.

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=chester&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl
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PostPosted: 19:46 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
Supermoto_Fan wrote:
the A130 haha, always full of traffic cops trying to catch speeding bikes especially on a Sunday, they always sit in one of the many laybys on the road.

Where abouts are you from? Smile

Hockley area, yourself?
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PostPosted: 19:53 - 08 Jan 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote
yen_powell wrote:
Josh.silverman wrote:
This is probably the strangest one near me, its on a roundabout.

Confuses the shit out of non-londoners and foreigners.

Caused a lot of accidents.

Know which one is the right one to follow?............ none, its a sculpture lol
It's not been on that roundabout for quite a while now, in fact the roundabout has gone.

The traffic light tree is currently in bits, stored in a warehouse. It's going back up soon, most likely outside Billingsgate fish market, depending on the results of our trial holes.


I haven't been round there for a while now tbh

That's interesting, would be great to see how them Adderson lee guys treat it!
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[/quote]Hockley area, yourself?
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West Thurrock Smile

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