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Spaghetti junction, gawd I hate Birmingham

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Birmingham is a hell hole, New Street station is such a pain in the arse.

The worst roundabouts are in Italy.

Mostly because they are 3 or 4 lane roundabouts.

And Italians don't believe in lanes.

Or turn-signals.

Or traffic signs and signals.

 d-usa wrote:
The worst roundabouts are in Italy.

Mostly because they are 3 or 4 lane roundabouts.

And Italians don't believe in lanes.

Or turn-signals.

Or traffic signs and signals.

Paris can also be bad for this. However, it is nothing on the Far East where everyone is on a moped or bike and apparently the lanes are only there to brighten up the tarmac

Do you lot have 1 ways out there? I know once you get into the bigger cities one ways pop up like mad and can get annoying really fracking fast. Its a simple enough idea, but once you add in people that dont understand basic traffic functions then suddenly 1 ways turn into a great big mess on murder and frustration

 KingCracker wrote:
Do you lot have 1 ways out there? I know once you get into the bigger cities one ways pop up like mad and can get annoying really fracking fast. Its a simple enough idea, but once you add in people that dont understand basic traffic functions then suddenly 1 ways turn into a great big mess on murder and frustration

Surprisingly there really aren't that many one ways in the larger cities, it tends to be the smaller victorian towns with roads designed for single carriages that are mostly one way.

 KingCracker wrote:
Do you lot have 1 ways out there? I know once you get into the bigger cities one ways pop up like mad and can get annoying really fracking fast. Its a simple enough idea, but once you add in people that dont understand basic traffic functions then suddenly 1 ways turn into a great big mess on murder and frustration

A lot of town and city centres use one way systems, well, I say systems... one way roads at least... they often don't seem to actually be planned out into any system that mortals can understand

This is often further confused with bus/taxi only roads, train and tram lanes (in some cities), cycle roads and foot traffic only roads. Some places also really suck at putting sign and lane information anywhere

 Corpsesarefun wrote:

 KingCracker wrote:
Do you lot have 1 ways out there? I know once you get into the bigger cities one ways pop up like mad and can get annoying really fracking fast. Its a simple enough idea, but once you add in people that dont understand basic traffic functions then suddenly 1 ways turn into a great big mess on murder and frustration

Surprisingly there really aren't that many one ways in the larger cities, it tends to be the smaller victorian towns with roads designed for single carriages that are mostly one way.

Central London has a surprising number of one way streets.

A number of Victorian towns have been completely blighted by their one way systems. Henley, where I live now, has the worst air quality in south Oxfordshire in its one way system. Reading, where I used to live, is essentially a massive one-way race track with a town centre imprisoned in the middle.