Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "1978: Ruislip ROUNDABOUT Is BAFFLING | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive" video.

  1. Who knows of the famous magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead? A totally fantastic idea that is so cheap to make and maintain, does not depend upon power and cannot be broken. The two previous layouts of that junction were a total nightmare!
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  2. @carruthers100 I know, or rather knew Aylesbury a few years back and it was getting bad then. There used to be a huge roundabout along the road from me here on a 5 way junction. It was always fairly dodgy because it was too wide and people went too fast round it. It is now a traffic light controlled junction and extremely confusing. Quite a few people end up going the wrong way up one of the lanes due to the odd stagger. When the power goes or someone takes out a set of lights it is carnage! It would have been the perfect place for a magic roundabout and smoothed the traffic flow wonderfully.
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