Swindon's Magic Roundabout from the air

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Swindon's Magic Roundabout from the air

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Mark Winter

Күн бұрын

The Magic Roundabout, Swindon, from the air.
(Music Credit: Klangkarussell - Sonnentanz)

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@matteofalduto766 2 жыл бұрын

“Magic” here refers to the kind of mushrooms the engineers ate before sitting down at this design.

@HookerHeels 2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao

@tripflare66 6 ай бұрын

If you look closely there is a pedestrian standing on the island in the center.. He's been there two years.

@BrunoFinger 7 жыл бұрын

It's actually extremely simple once you realise you shouldn't try to keep track of the whole thing but instead just your surroundings.

@DanielSadjadian 7 жыл бұрын

Haha really? I still avoid when I can.... wouldn't one big roundabout work just as well?

@DanielSadjadian 7 жыл бұрын

So what you're saying is that you basically just make your way around and forgot about every highway code rule (apart from the 'give way to your right').

@Karibanu 6 жыл бұрын

There's two paths to anywhere you want to go, it's an interesting design & more capacity than a big roundabout.

@owenking7928 5 жыл бұрын

What is that advice just treat every roundabout as a single roundabout what is this keep aware of your surroundings nonsense, Swindon drivers don't do that

@underneonloneliness2 3 жыл бұрын

Or just hope for the best

@shifty2755 4 жыл бұрын

I can say I have used this junction. And yes, I indeed did shit myself.

@NuisanceMan 2 жыл бұрын

If they tried this in America, within one hour of opening there would be a 27-way collision.

@danielbum912 3 жыл бұрын

Fun to pick an approaching vehicle at random and track it on its journey through this

@beckyg9831 5 ай бұрын

I did this!

@andyskittrall7944 3 жыл бұрын

I had to navigate this three times on my driving test back in 1988! Mind you, any learner driver from Swindon gets plenty of practice going through this junction before taking their test. Just keep giving way to the right and you’ll be fine.

@Anon54387 3 жыл бұрын

No wonder they only had one fatal accident in 5 years. No one can move fast enough to kill anyone.

@Chris-et2fm 2 жыл бұрын

Yet the traffic moves quicker than before they put the roundabouts in

@ixlnxs 2 жыл бұрын

FUN FACT: roundabouts cause more pedestrian and cyclist deaths than normal intersections, both with and without stop lights. That's why nobody builds them anymore, and existing ones are being phased out.

@TheSmithyChannel 2 жыл бұрын

@@ixlnxs where have found found this info? Everything I’ve just looked up says the opposite

@ixlnxs 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSmithyChannel Everything you've found is sponsored by the car lobby. In Europe and Asia, where roundabouts were all the rage in the 1970s and 1990s respectively, they are being phased out. Now you only still see new ones in very very regressive societies. The USA, KSA, UAE, Russia, those places.

@JimmyNewCakes Жыл бұрын

@@ixlnxs That's exactly the opposite of everything I've seen and read. Fatalities are down. Because of their success, they're building a lot more of them. They're installing several more each year in my city and especially at any locations with odd-angle intersections or where high-speed collisions seem to be a substantial issue.

@davidhand312 2 жыл бұрын

I was living 100m from this roundabout when it was being built. They tried a number of designs before settling on this one. They would hold the traffic up at each entrance during the rush hour and then a bloke on a platform in the middle would blow a whistle and all the traffic would flood onto the roundabout. The most hair raising test I saw was when they tried just a small central island, acres of tarmac and zero marked lines. Drivers on the front row would accelerate hard to get across befire the traffic jam formed. Then they'd stop the traffic, let the chaos clear and do it again. That trial didn't last very long. It was named the Magic Roundabout because there was a popular kids TV show by that name on at the time and the wierdness seemed, well, wierd. For the nerds, there's another one at the eastern end of Heathrow Airport.

@davidebiaz92 6 жыл бұрын

Best thing to do would be coming from a place where you drive on the right and then go to this roundabout :)

@Bean-cg4ub 5 жыл бұрын

"coming from a place where you drive right" oh so you basically mean every place on earth besides you guys and your (former) colonies :D

@user-ez4ny5kd7x 4 жыл бұрын

Bean 6549 Your comment makes no sense, He means if someone comes from a country who drives on the right, Yes that is most countries but they still do drive on the right. Your reply is unnecessary

@agirlisnoone5953 3 жыл бұрын

@@Bean-cg4ub 🤣 can't tell if you hate Americans or left side drivers. You're quite bitter though so I'm sorry.

@robversteeg8799 3 жыл бұрын

As a Dutchie i did it acouple of times and no probs at all.

@malcolmabram2957 2 жыл бұрын

@@Bean-cg4ub Japan drives on the left.

@nia4me1 Жыл бұрын

I LOVE this roundabout. when I first drove through Swindon at 19 my then husband thought it would be hilarious to put me through it. I was terrified but I survived. The Swindon folk say, close your eyes and pray. I've now used it for many, many years and it is an amazingly safe roundabout.

@mikeygoatley9767 2 жыл бұрын

We are visiting Swindon . Lost at the moment. When the Sat nav said go onto the Magic Roundabout I though it was taking the piss!!🧎‍♀️🙃😂😅

@gustavoluiz2723 3 жыл бұрын

The good thing is that everyone seems to respect the speed limit because of the complexity involved.

@markylon 2 жыл бұрын

Nonsense, you don't go round any junction at anywhere near the speed limit. Who in their right mind would approach a roundabout and navigate at 30mph?

@Jack0Corvus 2 жыл бұрын

@@markylon my neighborhood has exactly one roundabout and no one brakes before entering it lmao, no one understands that you need to give way to people inside the roundabout either so it's just a matter of who can elbow their way in first

@jamescrock2213 2 жыл бұрын

yes, if its daunting just looking at it anyone is gonna def slow their asses down.

@Rye-b7t 6 ай бұрын

Number of cuts in this video: 3 Number of cuts we needed : 0

@kaerzokled 23 күн бұрын

Ikr ffs don't even move the bloody drone just hold it and let us watch for like 20 minutes this would be the best video on youtube

@smollsquishytaeil 3 жыл бұрын

I can see why we Americans might not like it , everyone here yields by pure instinct.

@markylon 2 жыл бұрын

2 ways to make this video a million times better. 1 Hold the drone still and don't move, let people watch lots of different cars navigate the roundabouts and go different ways. Moving the drone does not allow the viewer to see all the different possible routes at once. 2. Turn off the Sh1te music.

@DanielTejnicky Жыл бұрын

Engineer "oKAY BOSS, how complex do you want that roundabout?" Boss: "YES"

@mogznwaz Жыл бұрын

I have lived in Swindon for 20 years and never heard of the Magic Roundabout before that. I love it - it keeps traffic moving, I’ve never experienced a traffic jam there. I don’t find it that intimidating at all you just take it a step at a time. As my driving instructor once said about the ‘infamous’ Clockhouse roundabout in Farnborough - it’s just a roundabout!

@memybikeni9931 Жыл бұрын

I’ve never seen a traffic jam at a normal roundabout where I live in Reading either, this is just dumb, it only works for people who live there. 11 people were killed on it last year.

@jeebuschristos8423 4 жыл бұрын

If they made one of these in USA... they'd be a mountain of piled-up cars in the middle within ten minutes...

@Anon54387 3 жыл бұрын

@Per Sunn I'm an American that really likes roundabouts. In my area, they've been replacing the four way stop intersections with roundabouts so now a person doesn't have to stop. The cost is a little more room used, and I'm not sure how the property owners at the intersection feel about that since a bit of their property was taken. It might also be a detriment to the business owners at those corners in that someone might be less likely to stop at the business when they don't have to stop at the intersection.

@karennaylor7138 3 жыл бұрын

@@Anon54387 The property owners may just be glad that the cars can move along through quickly. Where I live some new ones have been put in, and one sits very close to a house that used to have a busy intersection, and I was often just waiting at the red light with so many cars, and we were SO close to that house! I would have felt paranoid living there, with so many cars stopped practically just outside my door 😅

@mrcaboosevg6089 2 жыл бұрын

That video in Texas of a new roundabout is comical, it's like people just don't know how to drive

@fmjkevlar 2 жыл бұрын

Americans are binary drivers. Intersection lights: Red means stop, green means go. If this simple rule isn't followed, you have a big problem. Roundabouts in uk are simpler: give way to cars joining from the right, join when there is a gap use your indicators to signal where you are coming off. Its not a skill its similar to using a revolving door in a hotel or department store, only you have more exits.

@NuisanceMan 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrcaboosevg6089 It doesn't involve shooting people... therefore confusing to Texans

@allanmacbadger5692 6 жыл бұрын

Even Brunel would have been proud of this simple but clever design, it only stops working when the roundabout is gridlocked, but there again everything stops when gridlocked.

@pubbiehive Жыл бұрын

it's pretty smart, especially because it makes it so that you don't have to circle the entire thing to go to the exit to the right of where you enter.

@lindadunstall1790 Жыл бұрын

I am still trying to fathom this, sent to me by Swindon folk. At almost 69 years of age, female & Australian, I have been a driver since I turned 16. I have not had accidents & driven a variety of cars, manual (3 & 4, 5 & 6 speed) from an old Anglia to a Jensen Interceptor, 5.8L V8 muscle car, Mini, VW Kombi van, tractor, 16 seater bus on a ladies outing.... etc. Driving is a favourite thing of mine even today. Just follow the RULES people, in all situations, & we would all get where we want to go, safely. Thank you!🥰🙏🦘🦘🦘

@onkelmadin Жыл бұрын

This is the best roundabout, of the world!

@georgedeane2564 4 жыл бұрын

Little red car at 0:32 has right of way, you should never stop on a roundabout

@sgtreyal 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but it does say "keep clear" in front of him, in this situation he would have to stop

@georgedeane2564 4 жыл бұрын

@@sgtreyal he shouldn't have entered the roundabout then

@0saintclark0 4 жыл бұрын

All the usual roundabout rules go out the window with this one.

@TheRip72 4 жыл бұрын

@@0saintclark0 Only if you think of it as 1 roundabout...which is wrong. It is people who think of it as 1 which make the whole thing a pain. Treat it as 5 separate ones & it is not too bad.

@0saintclark0 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRip72 dude there are roundabouts within this where you are going round anti clockwise, like it or not that ain't the norm 😂

@dragonbutt 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing how simple it actually is. Probably a nightmare for a pedestrian

@dinamosflams 3 жыл бұрын

Oh please No city cares about pedestrians

@Maxence1402a 3 жыл бұрын

As for most if not all roundabouts, pedestrians walk around the roundabout and don't cross towards the center.

@dragonbutt 3 жыл бұрын

@@Maxence1402a Yes, but having to cross more than one 'street' to get to the other side without stoplights or proper crosswalk signals. Thats where the nightmare lies

@randomnobody660 3 жыл бұрын

@@dragonbutt Is it? It looks like just short distance away from the roundabout in 4 of the 5 directions there are pedestrian crossings, with what looks like excessive numbers of lights. For example pause at 1:30 and look at the top right quadrant of the video. The only branch that doesn't seem to have a pedestrian crossing is a 1 way street with 2 lanes with practically a stop sign type of deal (as in all lines in the roundabout are stop signs anyways). I really don't see crossing that as an issue.

@kolasillers7776 2 жыл бұрын

When first one crossed this roundabout, had big party and been knighthooded.😂

@StonerAmongstUs 6 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine an American trying to navigate this, they cannae even manage a regular roundabout. Recently some states have introduced roundabouts and the crash rate went up. Even calling them by a less intimidating name a "circle-a-round" did nothing to reduce crashes. Driving "counter-clockwise" only makes it all the more difficult.

@esspeecy 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone here after watching the Tom Scott video about this?

@starman5754 3 жыл бұрын

A traffic circle on the interior and a Texas U-turn concept on the exterior to flow in the opposite direction between every junction. Can go either way and get where you want to go. Nice!

@ChauffeurGoPro 3 жыл бұрын

I crashed my screen by watching this

@IndonesischeBapao 2 ай бұрын

Organised chaos. This tops Nijmegen’s roundabouts

@petroniogracias5942 3 жыл бұрын

No traffic signals, no policeman to control the traffic, yet the traffic moves smoothly, thanks the person who planned it, I have to use it regularly, just follow the right hand rule n you r safe all the hazards.

@catzfive Жыл бұрын

anyone fancy stealth camping that juicy roundabout?

@CareersbyJenn 2 жыл бұрын

This is pretty fantastic...and I know I'd be afraid at least the first time through...but what a great idea for not idling and for keeping things moving!

@martika14 Жыл бұрын

I actually see a great deal of idling happening.

@thebikemike 4 жыл бұрын

What will your navi say when you reach this roundabout? 'Out of service'?

3 жыл бұрын

nope, it shows which lane is good for, Google works pretty good.

@kolasillers7776 2 жыл бұрын

"you reached your destination."😂

@mrcaboosevg6089 2 жыл бұрын

My Tom Tom Professional had a mental breakdown when i was on it

@mikebolton2388 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrcaboosevg6089 you can hold your head up high because you are a genius

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

@ exactly!

@Dennis-J-Vandennouweland Жыл бұрын

If I drive in, someone has to take me out in 2060 😂

@darwinwins 3 жыл бұрын

this video would be more useful if the camera didn't circle around.

@yazraf Жыл бұрын

I actually think that it is simple and very good way to distribute traffic in the intersection.

@karlmcaidey1084 Жыл бұрын

I'll stop in the middle circle and cry, I'll stuck there forever by going into circles..

@theanyktos 11 ай бұрын

Ok, I've been staring at this for 5 minutes and I think I've got it. If you want to go to an exit that's left of where you're coming from, you move clockwise along the outer circle until you get to your exit. Technically I think you could get to all exits like that, treating it like a regular roundabout and ignoring the circle in the middle. But if you want to go to an exit that's right of where you're coming from you could also go through the mini circle at your entrance and onto the middle circle, move counterclockwise until you get to the mini circle by your exit and follow that to your actual exit.

@GrasshopperKelly Жыл бұрын

0:40 poor guy stuck on the foreground roundabout giving way to people who don't have right of way xD

@dreistein 9 ай бұрын

So this roundabout is real? Holy moly... there is NO need at all for the inner circle. You get anywhere from the outer one as well. To use the inner circle as a short cut, you have to cross TWICE the other traffic. That makes sense at 3 a.m. when you're alone. Even to think about all the decisions that have to be made drives me crazy.

@20firebird 3 жыл бұрын

it doesn’t seem that bad!

@BR-dj8ep Жыл бұрын

I can’t get around driving on the left , than to throw this in too . Nope not me

@operator8014 3 жыл бұрын

As part of Brittain's ongoing battle to eliminate traffic, they have decided to simply force all drivers into untimely graves.

@AggroSamurai 3 жыл бұрын

What happens when there is a layer of snow on that thing.

@aw_1890 3 жыл бұрын

You don’t drive it it’s snowy

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

nothing different. If your inexperienced and need road markings, don't drive

@MusiCatsKing 4 ай бұрын

It looks quite disruptive. It's not like once you're in it, the traffic just flows out.

@farnhamclose11 2 жыл бұрын

I cant believe that there isnt an easier way to sort out that intersection.

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

easier yes, but not safer

@EkayLaive Жыл бұрын

Confusing at first but really simple once you’ve got it

@bensteel3944 3 ай бұрын

Just decide where you want to exit and when you enter just give way. It's easy.

@route.de.zach. 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Mark, Doing a project for my transportation engineering class, would you mind if i used a few clips from this footage in my video, will give credit of course.

@reoreborn1209 4 жыл бұрын

Limmy sent me here!

@jesseandrews6506 Жыл бұрын

We could never have something like this in America. People would not understand how to use it.

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

yes. Hence not the circle is to blame

@DuongDiaLy Жыл бұрын

Hi brother. I'm Dương. May I use some seconds of this video, I'm making a traffic video. Thank you very much! Thank you!

@DallasHVac 3 жыл бұрын

If you like this, you’ll like the organized chao in Ho Chi Minh city traffic

@ianfroud70 3 жыл бұрын

Easiest roundabout to cross , just remember your lessons , look to the right 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@danieldaniel2 2 жыл бұрын

XTC brought me here 🇧🇷

@SS7CPhilip Жыл бұрын

I still can't figure out who has the right of way when you get in

@chriswilliams6613 2 жыл бұрын

One round about at a time

@MalcolmXpat 6 ай бұрын

Unsure why they didn't make the center roundabout clockwise

@tparadox88 Жыл бұрын

As one of the few Americans who's fine with roundabouts, seeing this in action actually made me more afraid of it. It's got more traffic and less flow than I expected.

@kimnewton8530 Жыл бұрын

Looks fairly straight forward. At least it's not littered with traffic lights that stop you for no reason, let you go when the road ahead is full and expect you to change lanes before they change back to red........of course this video is a few years old and the planners may have succumbed to temptation!

@TheByard 2 жыл бұрын

I have used a couple of times and found it no bother, there's another one at I think it's Milton Keynes, Strange that all the problems and cutting one another up seams to be on the mini ones.

@certifiedhalfwit7714 3 жыл бұрын

You haven’t been over this until you have been through it in a 25ft lorry

@IAmJonnariffic 2 жыл бұрын

Jon Richardson brought me here 😌

@vargancsikandras3023 6 ай бұрын

Maybe this is one of the reasons i will never try to drive in th Uk if i will reach there.I'am watching to this for about 30 minutes and my brain just can't realize the rules, because everything is upside -down for us ,for who are used to drive on the left.

@pineapplepenumbra Жыл бұрын

Swindon, with all these lanes you're really spoiling us; the one in Hemel only has 2 to 3 lanes in any one direction. Btw, I just discovered that I can't count. I thought this one had 7 mini roundabout, but it's only got 5.

@yegfreethinker Жыл бұрын

Pretty awseome video except for that damn elevator musak in the background

@iannickCZ 2 ай бұрын

What is the point of the inner circle? I think one circle can do the same thing. You still need to stop and give way.

@Ythishate Жыл бұрын

Dont understand why the additional complexity of the 5 small roundabouts.One big roundabout is much more simpler and serves the purpose.

@simonr-vp4if Жыл бұрын

This allows you to circulate both clockwise and counter-clockwise. If you want to take the first exit on the right, you don't have to go all the way round.

@Normadus 3 жыл бұрын

gl with using navi on that thing :o

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

then simply don't but look

@simonr-vp4if Жыл бұрын

Red car sitting in the middle of the near mini-roundabout from 0:33 to 0:47 making me angry.

@revwpitt2347 Жыл бұрын

Yes but as others have said there is a "Keep Clear" sign directly in front and he wants to join the queue the other side . Although it doesn`t look right he is doing the right thing by holding back and allowing the traffic to his left to move through.

@simonr-vp4if Жыл бұрын

@@revwpitt2347 you don't enter a roundabout unless your exit is clear.

@revwpitt2347 Жыл бұрын

@@simonr-vp4if where is that rule in the Highway Code ?

@simonr-vp4if Жыл бұрын

@@revwpitt2347 rule 185: "Look forward before moving off to make sure traffic in front has moved off."

@ROCKGRINDER12 2 жыл бұрын

in the way my partner drives, if she has to take this roundabout, I think I would expect her to be at home in the year 2050 if any luck.

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

maybe then she should not drive at all

@malcolmabram2957 2 жыл бұрын

A near by scrap dealer heavily invested in this 'roundabout.'

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

and probably went broke

@szbszig 3 жыл бұрын

I have driven through several Albanian roundabouts, but I must admit this shit scares me at first.

@JAPB Жыл бұрын

rotondas dentro de rotondas y encima circulando en contra dirección el mas difícil todavía están locos estos ingleses

@marcsee4072 Жыл бұрын

madness

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

not when you are an experienced driver, looking at the road and the traffic at all times

@skerr661 2 жыл бұрын

In my head this could have been so much more simple.

@kolasillers7776 2 жыл бұрын

No much fun in simple.😂

@eviwillems9793 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Mark, I was wondering if I could use this video on my website. I will ofcourse name you in the copyrights. Thank you in advance!

@Scallion_D 2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't seem that bad tbh, just usual roundabout rules more than once.

@MrDemonchild71 5 жыл бұрын

You made me dizzy

@91Durktheturk 4 жыл бұрын

It seems that traffic from the right always has right of way. So actually not that complicated.

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

wow! what a finding!

@twoflyinghats 2 жыл бұрын

Swindon where?

@thomasyip1925 2 жыл бұрын

Somebody knows Cities Skylines roundabout in real life

@DamonGarfield 6 жыл бұрын

What a nightmare!

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

ever considered not driving at all?

@DamonGarfield 4 ай бұрын

@@eberhardh flyin cars would be nice

@manuelhung7571 Жыл бұрын

This will sort out the early onset Alzheimer's folk from the Boys? 😂

@dermotdermotdermot 2 жыл бұрын

Can anyone tell me why this isn’t just a normal, 5-exit roundabout??

@TheByard 2 жыл бұрын

Because roundabouts often get blocked by a single road entering or leaving, where the Magic ones have another way round cutting out having to go the long way round. In Vietnam if they want exit 3 they take the short and go the wrong way.

@dermotdermotdermot 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. Thank you!

@antechinus100 5 жыл бұрын

Would never work in Australia.They can't negiate any with more than 2 (two) exits.

@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042 5 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is, this roundabout actually has just about no rules. Some of the cars in this video may be "doing it wrong" but the reason why this thing works is because it relies on common sense. - Common sense not to crash into people. It is a cool throwback to the days of horses and no road rules, yet it works.

@cheryldahl9192 Жыл бұрын

holding the camera still would have been less nauseating.

@bryantwalley Жыл бұрын

Works great until an idiot drives into the intersection and stops. Never ever drive into any intersection if you are not certain you can get out of it.

@marcogilbert4230 3 жыл бұрын

swindon, aroundbutt

@user-pk1ih7vd6e 3 жыл бұрын

Please help me,what is this music?

@odoil74 3 жыл бұрын

klangkarussell - sonnentanz

@gunnygt49 2 жыл бұрын

This wouldn’t work in America. You will always get that one person who doesn’t know wtf their doing and just keep yielding forever….

@simonr-vp4if Жыл бұрын

That little red car at 0:33 must be an American then!

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

@@simonr-vp4if nope. it is behaving correctly why not moving in case the road ahead is not clear. Ever heard of this rule?

@simonr-vp4if 4 ай бұрын

@@eberhardh if the exit is not clear then he shouldn't have entered the roundabout.

@eberhardh 4 ай бұрын

@@simonr-vp4if agree in general, i.e. in a one lane circle, however not in this case. when entering the whole thing (where his lane was free) he could not see that later he would not be able to cross the intersection. So clearly he had to come a stop until the road turned clear

@fredflintstoner596 2 жыл бұрын

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