Life changing experience

[Deleted account DD]

I've just had a horrendous experience, sent to Swindon for two days with work......................

Have you ever tried negotiating their road system

 

[Damian Strudley]

What They have built roads down there now!!!!

 

[lacroupade]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Melinda Messenger...drool ep

 

[zippy656]

I've just had a horrendous experience, sent to Swindon for two days with work......................

Have you ever tried negotiating their road system

and whats wrong with them!!!!!!

I LOVE MAGIC ROUND ABOUT!

OH next time your down drop in for a cuppa!

 

[extreme-4x4]

i read somewhere . the worlds first roundabout was in wales


i dont know if its true ...............................:nenaubut it makes seance

 

[lacroupade]

i read somewhere . the worlds first roundabout was in wales


i dont know if its true ...............................:nenaubut it makes seance

yeah, to turn the english round and send 'em back again LOL

 

[Deleted account DD]

i read somewhere . the worlds first roundabout was in wales


i dont know if its true ...............................:nenaubut it makes seance

Swindons got more, in random spots and (safety in numbers??) grouped together

Who on earth puts 4 mini roundabouts on one junction ? and why ?

 

[Deleted account DD]

Should have said as well....................

I was that amused by the roundabouts , not just the magic one, that I was going to stop and get some photos


But as theres no decent parking either :augie.............................................

 

[lacroupade]

Swindons got more, in random spots and (safety in numbers??) grouped together

Who on earth puts 4 mini roundabouts on one junction ? and why ?

you'd better hope they never send you to Milton Keynes mate!

 

[zippy656]

you'd better hope they never send you to Milton Keynes mate!

Milton Keynes makes Swindon look like a round about free zone!!

 

[zippy656]

Should have said as well....................

I was that amused by the roundabouts , not just the magic one, that I was going to stop and get some photos


But as theres no decent parking either :augie.............................................

dont look like the swindon one to me.. loads of parking by the Swindon one.. at the football club.

 

[Deleted account DD]

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?i...out&hl=en&sa=N&um=1&ei=i7nbSfSzA5yqjAfB7IHNCA


I googled for the pic, brought that back , might not be it, I was in trauma negotiating them

Football club :naughty

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

theres a magic in hemel hempstead too though each island has less lanes
coming upto each junction and more space, a green park in the centre.
theres less sensation of travelling with traffic going in opposite direction
to your nearside as there appears in the piccy above.

seen smaller versions where a staggered crossroads has two mini islands
but you can still meet traffic 'wrong/near' side. all good fun. think it was
cheltenham or gloucester.

 

[lacroupade]

no thats it alright, there not another one like it....

 

[zippy656]

Ok just done so myself, your right it is the swindon one, i didnt think there was any grass at the top of the pic, thats where the swindon town football ground parking is..

so sorry.. for douting

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

no thats it alright, there not another one like it....

'cept hemel, though not identical as has 6 mini islands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Hemel_Hempstead)

Wiki suggests there are also similar senses of humour in colchester and high wycombe.

fortunately something only to be found in south. that said in sheffield we have a large
island called park square, sheffield humour as its round which could be a redone as
a magic. indeed years ago before it was modified to be trafic light controlled as was
referred as the magic roundabout as it was magic if you got on and off it unscathed as
unregulated traffic on it could reach 40/50 mph so really took life in hands joining it!

 

[zippy656]

if i remember right both were in a calender of round abouts too!

 

[extreme-4x4]

if i remember right both were in a calender of round abouts too!

see zipps.... why is it i guessed you'd say something like that

roundabout's calender:doh... "yes you typed that out loud " , whats wrong with a perelli one ???

 

[zippy656]

oh my god !


i MUST be getting old!!

 

[Damian Strudley]

I thought it was supposed to be Zebadee and the magic roundabout not ZIPPY:lol