FabSwingers.com > Forums > The Lounge > islands with no traffic
islands with no traffic
Jump to: Newest in thread
 |
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much.."
'cus they need time to put their slow-like brains in gear 
You find these creatures hogging the middle lane on motorways also  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much..
Oh, youd luv Hemel Hempstead then,,lol "
I think Hemel works quite well considering we are all going the wrong way round the massive traffic island lol |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much..
Oh, youd luv Hemel Hempstead then,,lol
I think Hemel works quite well considering we are all going the wrong way round the massive traffic island lol"
Queue the theme from the Magic Roundabout |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *ustyWoman
over a year ago
inverclyde |
sexy ray its 6 roundabouts in one...... it fun have to say and worse if you have no idea where you are going lol i used to love it and once my friend who had no idea where she was going went round every one and was just going to the main town shopping area lol |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
Even worse is this situation. Driving a tractor like I do, keeping up momentum is quite important, especially when I`ve got a heavy laden trailer hitched on. I`m approaching the roundabout - see a gap - enter the roundabout and then have to anchor on because the driver of the car I was planning to go behind has seen what I am doing stops because they think I`m going to hit them! Well I fekkin well will if they stop!!!!!!!  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
"sexy ray its 6 roundabouts in one...... it fun have to say and worse if you have no idea where you are going lol i used to love it and once my friend who had no idea where she was going went round every one and was just going to the main town shopping area lol "
Magic Rounabout in Swindon is 5 mini-roundabouts on 1 large one meaning you can go round in either direction!  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much..
Oh, youd luv Hemel Hempstead then,,lol
I think Hemel works quite well considering we are all going the wrong way round the massive traffic island lol"
Absolutely. Works like a dream in my opinion. Scared the crap outta Siren on the one occasion I took her round it. There's another one in Swindon I believe. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"we've just come home from an island where the only traffic was the odd golf buggy being used as a baggage cart - was bliss "
Where is this magical nirvana? My idea of bliss is that! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
Saddles farm roundabout in Essex is 5 mini roundabouts round 1 big one as well taken me 3 yrs to get use to it and now the buggers are changing back to 1 big 1 I'm more confused now as 1 day it's all 5 then next it's 1 while they do the work  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *umourCouple
over a year ago
Rushden |
Before that multi roundabout system was installed in Hemel, there would be a two mile queue of traffic at 5pm of cars coming off the main industrial estate, Maylands Avenue. That disappeared overnight but partly due to the number of people avoiding the new layout. Go there now and it moves freely and I have never seen those kind of tailbacks there since.
Mrs R was a learner driver a few years after that was put in and her instructor took her round it many times to get her used to it! I used to take her on it too… Not driving, but in the centre of the roundabout there were trees and bushes next to the small river that ran there too… Used to “take her” down by that river!
Hmmm... Is the river still in the middle? |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *andKCouple
over a year ago
Norfolk |
"we've just come home from an island where the only traffic was the odd golf buggy being used as a baggage cart - was bliss
Where is this magical nirvana? My idea of bliss is that! "
Marbul - Malaysia |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"sexy ray its 6 roundabouts in one...... it fun have to say and worse if you have no idea where you are going lol i used to love it and once my friend who had no idea where she was going went round every one and was just going to the main town shopping area lol
Magic Rounabout in Swindon is 5 mini-roundabouts on 1 large one meaning you can go round in either direction! "
and it works really well, must be loads of other multiple road junctions which would benefit from the same system |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much..
Oh, youd luv Hemel Hempstead then,,lol
I think Hemel works quite well considering we are all going the wrong way round the massive traffic island lol
Absolutely. Works like a dream in my opinion. Scared the crap outta Siren on the one occasion I took her round it. There's another one in Swindon I believe."
Yes there is. There are two more in the uk... Colchester and Southend on sea.
I can understand Siren getting a little worried at the Hemel one though... It took me a good 4-5 times of using it before I stopped breaking into a cold sweat on approach lol |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much.."
Read your highway code. You are supposed to stop and look to see what is approaching from the right cars coming or not. If cameras are on the junction or police around you will get nicked. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"
You find these creatures hogging the middle lane on motorways also "
dont get me started on that!
used to find loads of them in middle lane M40 when driving back n forth to heathrow when working there,they drive blocking up all behind them and quite oblivious to it too!,they seem to drive as though stuck in a tram lines!. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much..
Read your highway code. You are supposed to stop and look to see what is approaching from the right cars coming or not. If cameras are on the junction or police around you will get nicked. "
It doesn't say 'Stop' at a roundabout in the Highway Code. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"sexy ray its 6 roundabouts in one...... it fun have to say and worse if you have no idea where you are going lol i used to love it and once my friend who had no idea where she was going went round every one and was just going to the main town shopping area lol "
I've done that, gone around every roundabout because I did not know what the hell was going on. I've also just driven in a straight line over them as I have no idea what's going on (;-) |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"sexy ray its 6 roundabouts in one...... it fun have to say and worse if you have no idea where you are going lol i used to love it and once my friend who had no idea where she was going went round every one and was just going to the main town shopping area lol
Magic Rounabout in Swindon is 5 mini-roundabouts on 1 large one meaning you can go round in either direction! "
I read your words, i get a sense of what you're saying, then I drive to a place where cars are coming at me from all directions. It's too complex for my head but I am amazed there are few crashes so people must drive carefully because it's so complicated (;_) |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Saddles farm roundabout in Essex is 5 mini roundabouts round 1 big one as well taken me 3 yrs to get use to it and now the buggers are changing back to 1 big 1 I'm more confused now as 1 day it's all 5 then next it's 1 while they do the work "
I know just how you feel. I am told we now have "Hamburger" roundabouts where a main road cuts throught he middle but everyone else has to deal with roundabouts. Whatever happened to fly overs ? (;-) |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *umourCouple
over a year ago
Rushden |
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much..
Read your highway code. You are supposed to stop and look to see what is approaching from the right cars coming or not. If cameras are on the junction or police around you will get nicked.
It doesn't say 'Stop' at a roundabout in the Highway Code."
Quite right Frock! The lines are "Give Way" lines and as such you can drive straight out if nothing is coming! Really infuriates me when psople stop when there is nothing coming.
Yesterday on the way to drop off "'er indoors" one woman actually stopped with a car approaching at least 50 mtrs (54.16 yards!) away. She waited until the other person drove slowly to the roundabout and drove past..
Does kinda make me wonder how they passed their tests! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
"
I know just how you feel. I am told we now have "Hamburger" roundabouts where a main road cuts throught he middle but everyone else has to deal with roundabouts. Whatever happened to fly overs ? (;-)"
They`re just starting one of those on the A31 between Wimborne and Ferndown. There`s regularly queues from this rounabout back to Candam and the M27 in the summer (at least 20 miles) and local traffic cannot cross the rounabout either. I`ve taken over an hour just to travel the 1/2 mile from my work to the roundabout and often travelled in the opposite direction to take the Cookes Tour to get home! Can`t see the "improvements are going to work, especially for the A31 traffic! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *eppersCouple
over a year ago
telford |
Nice to hear it's not just a telford thing then, lol I don't suppose stopping at red lights is just a telford thing either, or lane dissapline
thats why i lets the mrs drive most of the time now as it drives me nucking fudse, i have such a low tollerance with peoples driving these days. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
The one that gets my goat every time..............You're driving on the motorway and the person on the slip road next to you matches your speed and then expects you to move over or give way to them, go figure. Try find that one in the hihgway code. I'll get off me soapbox now |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much..
Read your highway code. You are supposed to stop and look to see what is approaching from the right cars coming or not. If cameras are on the junction or police around you will get nicked. "
I think you may well find that there are not 'Stop' lines on a roundabout but 'Give Way' lines.....
As such you are required to approach a roundabout with caution and awareness of traffic approaching from the right...
But I could of course be wrong.....happy to be corrected if that is so. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"The one that gets my goat every time..............You're driving on the motorway and the person on the slip road next to you matches your speed and then expects you to move over or give way to them, go figure. Try find that one in the hihgway code. I'll get off me soapbox now "
You are right....it's just known as 'common courtesy'..... |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
"The one that gets my goat every time..............You're driving on the motorway and the person on the slip road next to you matches your speed and then expects you to move over or give way to them, go figure. Try find that one in the hihgway code. I'll get off me soapbox now
You are right....it's just known as 'common courtesy'....."
common sense in my book!.  |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much..
Read your highway code. You are supposed to stop and look to see what is approaching from the right cars coming or not. If cameras are on the junction or police around you will get nicked.
I think you may well find that there are not 'Stop' lines on a roundabout but 'Give Way' lines.....
As such you are required to approach a roundabout with caution and awareness of traffic approaching from the right...
But I could of course be wrong.....happy to be corrected if that is so."
No correction here, because roundabouts are designed to speed up traffic flow. You adjust your speed so you can intragrate with the vehicles already on the roundabout, just like you do for a motorway junction or similar. Of course, if there`s no room you slow down or stop until a space comes! Simples! |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"why do people stop at a an island when theres no traffic on it,or around it... !! grrr...annoying much..
Read your highway code. You are supposed to stop and look to see what is approaching from the right cars coming or not. If cameras are on the junction or police around you will get nicked.
I think you may well find that there are not 'Stop' lines on a roundabout but 'Give Way' lines.....
As such you are required to approach a roundabout with caution and awareness of traffic approaching from the right...
But I could of course be wrong.....happy to be corrected if that is so.
No correction here, because roundabouts are designed to speed up traffic flow. You adjust your speed so you can intragrate with the vehicles already on the roundabout, just like you do for a motorway junction or similar. Of course, if there`s no room you slow down or stop until a space comes! Simples!"
That's not actually true most roundabouts have a dashed white line at the approach to the roundabout. You are meant to bring a vehicle to a stationary stop at such road markings there for unless a mini roundabout or one without markings you are required to bring your vehicle to rest. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"That's not actually true most roundabouts have a dashed white line at the approach to the roundabout. You are meant to bring a vehicle to a stationary stop at such road markings there for unless a mini roundabout or one without markings you are required to bring your vehicle to rest."
A dashed white line at a junction/roundabout means "give way" to the right unless a clear road sign indicates otherwise.
A solid white line means at a junction means "stop"... handbrake to be used etc.
The poster above you was correct if you read the "integration of traffic" line as "join if your actions are not going to impede the traffic that has the right of way".
A solid eh |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"That's not actually true most roundabouts have a dashed white line at the approach to the roundabout. You are meant to bring a vehicle to a stationary stop at such road markings there for unless a mini roundabout or one without markings you are required to bring your vehicle to rest.
A dashed white line at a junction/roundabout means "give way" to the right unless a clear road sign indicates otherwise.
A solid white line means at a junction means "stop"... handbrake to be used etc.
The poster above you was correct if you read the "integration of traffic" line as "join if your actions are not going to impede the traffic that has the right of way".
A solid eh"
Wrong you are meant to bring your car to a stationary position before proceeding. |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
|
By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
|
"Wrong you are meant to bring your car to a stationary position before proceeding. "
Go on... have a little read of the Highway Code and get back to me with the same answer!
Copy n paste what it says... post that section in reply to me on this thread if you like (it's free to look at on-line).
......or don't waste your time... I am married to a qualified driving instructor |
Reply privately, Reply in forum +quote
or View forums list | |
» Add a new message to this topic
....I survived btw lol