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England's roundabouts are simply amazing! Our small town in Michigan (USA) just had our first roundabout installed. I had never driven on one before, but after watching enough TV, I've got the gist. Our roundabout is not completely open yet--probably trying to enure us to this new hazard; please pray for us as we go on to open the other two roads that feed it! I understand the way the roundabout works, and in America, of course, everything's backwards. Just the other day, a woman in front of me turned left going into the roundabout (that's not the way it works here) so I just waited until she was out of sight and went through the legal way. Thank you for your website. This is wonderful. Wendi
Comment on Roundabouts posted 2006-11-29 by Wendi from Michigan, USA
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Atypical English road system! If you are lost , just keep going around until you find the right exit! Difficult at first especially driving a standard using the left hand! We appear to getting more and more of these in Canada due to the large amounts of traffic that is appearing on our roads.
Comment on Roundabouts posted 2006-08-05 by Andy Sibbald from Canada
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I will never forget asking a German friend to navigate as I drove us to Norwich. Becoming somewhat flustered by the approach of a roundabout, she gesticulated wildly and said "and then you do something at that round thing there"! I was surprised to read that the first recognisable roundabout was in New York - I thought that they were a British invention, gradually being exported to Europe.
Comment on Roundabouts posted 2006-07-18 by Victoria Edwards from Birmingham
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Unique to Britain and her former colonies, confuses and intrigues foreigners, but is simple and clear to us. WONDERFULLY ENGLISH!
Comment on Roundabouts posted 2006-07-14 by Joseph Merrington from Portsmouth
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Swindon's Magic Roundabout, cryptic yet brilliantly simple! It works because it is based on courtesy, good manners and playing by the rules. One central roundabout running clockwise with 5 connecting mini roundabouts running counter-clockwise, traffic flows smoothly at the busiest of times. Like the British people, it is ingenious, understated, most practical, and quietly gets on with the job.
Comment on Roundabouts posted 2006-07-14 by John and Susan McCullough from Oxfordshire UK
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If I am not mistaken this and the traffic lights are British inventions. The roundabout embodies several other proposed icons, such as politeness and queueing, and is an ingenious way of imposing order on potential chaos.
Comment on Roundabouts posted 2006-07-14 by Sunny A-Angeles from Athens, Greece
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They are not typically english. Drive in France and you'll find plenty of fine examples of the form, along with their offspring, the mini-roundabout. One of my prsonal favourites is at the Porte d'Angleterre on the Caen 'rocade'.. Maybe they seem typically english just because America doesn't use them much.
Comment on Roundabouts posted 2007-01-19 by Alex from Burnley