The Magic Roundabout, Swindon, from the air. (Music Credit: Klangkarussell - Sonnentanz)
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@matteofalduto7662 жыл бұрын
“Magic” here refers to the kind of mushrooms the engineers ate before sitting down at this design.
@HookerHeels2 жыл бұрын
Lmfao
@tripflare666 ай бұрын
If you look closely there is a pedestrian standing on the island in the center.. He's been there two years.
@BrunoFinger7 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.
@DanielSadjadian7 жыл бұрын
Haha really? I still avoid when I can.... wouldn't one big roundabout work just as well?
@DanielSadjadian7 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').
@Karibanu6 жыл бұрын
There's two paths to anywhere you want to go, it's an interesting design & more capacity than a big roundabout.
@owenking79285 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
@underneonloneliness23 жыл бұрын
Or just hope for the best
@shifty27554 жыл бұрын
I can say I have used this junction. And yes, I indeed did shit myself.
@NuisanceMan2 жыл бұрын
If they tried this in America, within one hour of opening there would be a 27-way collision.
@danielbum9123 жыл бұрын
Fun to pick an approaching vehicle at random and track it on its journey through this
@beckyg98315 ай бұрын
I did this!
@andyskittrall79443 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.
@Anon543873 жыл бұрын
No wonder they only had one fatal accident in 5 years. No one can move fast enough to kill anyone.
@Chris-et2fm2 жыл бұрын
Yet the traffic moves quicker than before they put the roundabouts in
@ixlnxs2 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.
@TheSmithyChannel2 жыл бұрын
@@ixlnxs where have found found this info? Everything I’ve just looked up says the opposite
@ixlnxs2 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.
@davidhand3122 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.
@davidebiaz926 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-cg4ub5 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-ez4ny5kd7x4 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
@agirlisnoone59533 жыл бұрын
@@Bean-cg4ub 🤣 can't tell if you hate Americans or left side drivers. You're quite bitter though so I'm sorry.
@robversteeg87993 жыл бұрын
As a Dutchie i did it acouple of times and no probs at all.
@malcolmabram29572 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.
@mikeygoatley97672 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!!🧎♀️🙃😂😅
@gustavoluiz27233 жыл бұрын
The good thing is that everyone seems to respect the speed limit because of the complexity involved.
@markylon2 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?
@Jack0Corvus2 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
@jamescrock22132 жыл бұрын
yes, if its daunting just looking at it anyone is gonna def slow their asses down.
@Rye-b7t6 ай бұрын
Number of cuts in this video: 3 Number of cuts we needed : 0
@kaerzokled23 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
@smollsquishytaeil3 жыл бұрын
I can see why we Americans might not like it , everyone here yields by pure instinct.
@markylon2 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.
@jeebuschristos84234 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...
@Anon543873 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.
@karennaylor71383 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 😅
@mrcaboosevg60892 жыл бұрын
That video in Texas of a new roundabout is comical, it's like people just don't know how to drive
@fmjkevlar2 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.
@NuisanceMan2 жыл бұрын
@@mrcaboosevg6089 It doesn't involve shooting people... therefore confusing to Texans
@allanmacbadger56926 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!
@georgedeane25644 жыл бұрын
Little red car at 0:32 has right of way, you should never stop on a roundabout
@sgtreyal4 жыл бұрын
Yes, but it does say "keep clear" in front of him, in this situation he would have to stop
@georgedeane25644 жыл бұрын
@@sgtreyal he shouldn't have entered the roundabout then
@0saintclark04 жыл бұрын
All the usual roundabout rules go out the window with this one.
@TheRip724 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.
@0saintclark04 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 😂
@dragonbutt5 жыл бұрын
Amazing how simple it actually is. Probably a nightmare for a pedestrian
@dinamosflams3 жыл бұрын
Oh please No city cares about pedestrians
@Maxence1402a3 жыл бұрын
As for most if not all roundabouts, pedestrians walk around the roundabout and don't cross towards the center.
@dragonbutt3 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
@randomnobody6603 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.
@kolasillers77762 жыл бұрын
When first one crossed this roundabout, had big party and been knighthooded.😂
@StonerAmongstUs6 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.
@esspeecy3 жыл бұрын
Anyone here after watching the Tom Scott video about this?
@starman57543 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!
@ChauffeurGoPro3 жыл бұрын
I crashed my screen by watching this
@IndonesischeBapao2 ай бұрын
Organised chaos. This tops Nijmegen’s roundabouts
@petroniogracias59423 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?
@CareersbyJenn2 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.
@thebikemike4 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.
@kolasillers77762 жыл бұрын
"you reached your destination."😂
@mrcaboosevg60892 жыл бұрын
My Tom Tom Professional had a mental breakdown when i was on it
@mikebolton23882 жыл бұрын
@@mrcaboosevg6089 you can hold your head up high because you are a genius
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
@ exactly!
@Dennis-J-Vandennouweland Жыл бұрын
If I drive in, someone has to take me out in 2060 😂
@darwinwins3 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..
@theanyktos11 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
@dreistein9 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.
@20firebird3 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
@operator80143 жыл бұрын
As part of Brittain's ongoing battle to eliminate traffic, they have decided to simply force all drivers into untimely graves.
@AggroSamurai3 жыл бұрын
What happens when there is a layer of snow on that thing.
@aw_18903 жыл бұрын
You don’t drive it it’s snowy
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
nothing different. If your inexperienced and need road markings, don't drive
@MusiCatsKing4 ай бұрын
It looks quite disruptive. It's not like once you're in it, the traffic just flows out.
@farnhamclose112 жыл бұрын
I cant believe that there isnt an easier way to sort out that intersection.
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
easier yes, but not safer
@EkayLaive Жыл бұрын
Confusing at first but really simple once you’ve got it
@bensteel39443 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.
@reoreborn12094 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.
@eberhardh4 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!
@DallasHVac3 жыл бұрын
If you like this, you’ll like the organized chao in Ho Chi Minh city traffic
@ianfroud703 жыл бұрын
Easiest roundabout to cross , just remember your lessons , look to the right 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
@danieldaniel22 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
@chriswilliams66132 жыл бұрын
One round about at a time
@MalcolmXpat6 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!
@TheByard2 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.
@certifiedhalfwit77143 жыл бұрын
You haven’t been over this until you have been through it in a 25ft lorry
@IAmJonnariffic2 жыл бұрын
Jon Richardson brought me here 😌
@vargancsikandras30236 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
@iannickCZ2 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.
@Normadus3 жыл бұрын
gl with using navi on that thing :o
@eberhardh4 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."
@ROCKGRINDER122 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.
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
maybe then she should not drive at all
@malcolmabram29572 жыл бұрын
A near by scrap dealer heavily invested in this 'roundabout.'
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
and probably went broke
@szbszig3 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
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
not when you are an experienced driver, looking at the road and the traffic at all times
@skerr6612 жыл бұрын
In my head this could have been so much more simple.
@kolasillers77762 жыл бұрын
No much fun in simple.😂
@eviwillems97932 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_D2 жыл бұрын
Doesn't seem that bad tbh, just usual roundabout rules more than once.
@MrDemonchild715 жыл бұрын
You made me dizzy
@91Durktheturk4 жыл бұрын
It seems that traffic from the right always has right of way. So actually not that complicated.
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
wow! what a finding!
@twoflyinghats2 жыл бұрын
Swindon where?
@thomasyip19252 жыл бұрын
Somebody knows Cities Skylines roundabout in real life
@DamonGarfield6 жыл бұрын
What a nightmare!
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
ever considered not driving at all?
@DamonGarfield4 ай бұрын
@@eberhardh flyin cars would be nice
@manuelhung7571 Жыл бұрын
This will sort out the early onset Alzheimer's folk from the Boys? 😂
@dermotdermotdermot2 жыл бұрын
Can anyone tell me why this isn’t just a normal, 5-exit roundabout??
@TheByard2 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.
@dermotdermotdermot2 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Thank you!
@antechinus1005 жыл бұрын
Would never work in Australia.They can't negiate any with more than 2 (two) exits.
@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug90425 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.
@marcogilbert42303 жыл бұрын
swindon, aroundbutt
@user-pk1ih7vd6e3 жыл бұрын
Please help me,what is this music?
@odoil743 жыл бұрын
klangkarussell - sonnentanz
@gunnygt492 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!
@eberhardh4 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-vp4if4 ай бұрын
@@eberhardh if the exit is not clear then he shouldn't have entered the roundabout.
@eberhardh4 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
@fredflintstoner5962 жыл бұрын
Mrs Richards: " I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?
@andywalker20773 жыл бұрын
In China this would be clogged 24/7
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
maybe. but we're not in China
@shirleyellis97083 жыл бұрын
👌
@positiveminus113 жыл бұрын
What a disaster
@eberhardh4 ай бұрын
pls specify
@allengarcia002 ай бұрын
Honestly that’s just the most inefficient thing I’ve seen.
@BHRoadStoriesBH10 ай бұрын
Hahaha 😂😂😂😂😂 😮😮😮😮😮 😔🥴😔
@simonwood140210 ай бұрын
Not as good as Hemel Hempstead's Magic Roundabout 😊 .....just saying!