The Magic Roundabout

We have two of these magic roundabouts near to where I live - one is the Colchester one mentioned in the Swindonweb article you linked to. They look scary when you first come up to them but actually they are very easy to drive around when you've done it once or twice and they do seem to improve the flow of traffic.

Nik, how exactly is this supposed to work? To my understanding, once you are inside a roundabout, you have the right of way. Now in this mindtwister, who is stopping for whom? And don't you just get lost? I know I would.

Guys, may be you should just ask someone who knows this thing ;-) Like me. I live about 5 minutes away from it. The right of way only applies to the roundabout you are in, so as soon as you switch to another one you have to wait. As long as you know which ones of the exits you want it's also very easy to find your way through it. Apart from the fact there are various possibilities to get through it ;-)

Who are you? Why do you have a site commenting on mostly banal matters without having the inside knowledge, experience or intelligence to know what is really going on? A classic example is your comments on Swindon's "Magic Roundabout" You call it very confusing after the Road Research Laboratory call it a revolutionary idea. Don't you get it? A "Revolution" - something that goes round as well as a force of change. It was a joke comment by the RRL. But, of course, you are German and like all your fellow compatriots had a sense of humour bypass operation at birth. You wouldn't know a joke if it was wrapped round a bratwurst and stuck up you dumb kraut arse.

I used the Magic Roundabout today! The worst bit is the sign that warns you about it; it's a bit of a shock as I hadn't seen anything like it before. Then you realise the whole thing goes the wrong way around, but if you understand the principle of a mini roundabout, then it's very simple, because you just hop from one to the next, keeping an eye on where you want to go ultimately. It really isn't confusing, although it might LOOK it at first.

By the way, I found "Jonny G"'s comments totally unacceptable. Just the sort of xenophobic cultural stereotyping that gives Britons a bad reputation abroad. If you must be of a Teutophobic disposition, try not to embarrass your "fellow compatriots" with it. It isn't difficult to see who has had the sense-of-humour by-pass operation in this case.

C. Fear,
Wessex.

I lived, quite literally, next to the magic roundabout in Swindon for 17 years.
There was not a day that went by that I did not use it. It is a very simple and efficient way to get to your chosen exit road.
All you need to do is get in the correct lane (these are marked) and give way to vehicles to your right. As long as other drivers do not obstruct the mini roundabouts the traffic flows freely.
You can travel clockwise or anti-clockwise to reach your chosen exit which means that if you see one way is congested, you can go the other way around to reach the same point.
I now live in Australia and actually miss 'the magic'. I do not miss the noise or pollution though!

I have lived 800 metres from the Magic Roundabout for 20 years and walk past it 4 times a day to take my dog for a walk. in that time I have only seen 2 accidents on it both involved Germans. Not only do they not understand a joke but they are crap drivers as well

The roundabout is famous for other things. Somebody actually got murdered in the middle of it! I say if you can't handle a bit of engineering brilliance then don't bother coming to Swindon.

"Johnny" is an idiot, most likely one of those yobbos that have ruined the reputaion of English football supporters.

Ignore him.

All the best,

Tamar

I am an American who lived in Swindon for 2 years. I had to drive through the Magic Roundabout every workday. I have to say that roundabouts in general are a most efficient method for getting traffic quickly through an intersection. They require that drivers have a reasonable level of intelligence to negotiate them safely. This is why they never seem to work here in the USA. However, at a certain saturation point, roundabouts go smooth sailing to gridlock without much middle ground. The Magic Roundabout was an ingenious solution to allowing a far greater flow of traffic without resorting to stop lights.

I loved driving in England, first of all all drivers are required to actually learn how to drive before taking to the streets (a novel idea we should try here). And most pleasant is that the Brits are so polite and civil when they drive. Never had I seen someone try to drive around a long queue at an exit and attempt to cut in at the last moment. I really miss England.
Cheers!

I had the classic foreigners' experience of arriving at the sign for this roundabout unawares and momentarily freaking out. Can mere words describe what the sight of those 5 pinwheels does to the uninitiated?? I'd been driving in England about 5 weeks at that point (I'm a US driver), and thought I had roundabouts nailed. Ha! My passenger and I survived our passage through, thanks in part to the fabulously courteous English drivers who found themselves in there with us. Later I learned about the principle behind the traffic flow, and it's brilliant (in both the American and British sense of that word). It's such a rational, clever, simple solution! But it sure is intimidating when you find yourself caught between two lorries at the edge....

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