Green light but on coming traffic.

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by ginger ninja, Oct 20, 2019.

  1. ginger ninja

    ginger ninja Supporter

    We have this weird junction round my way. I’m well used to it but it’s pretty lethal.
    South Ealing rd onto the A4 in Brentford. The lights are green but cars come around from the opposite direction to join the a4 with right of way to turn their right! Straight in front of ‘you’ causing sudden braking and/or collision either from in front, the side or from behind!
    It’s mad. Are there any other junctions like this?
     
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  2. Sounds to me like they are sequenced wrong.
     
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  3. Has it been like that a long time? We had one in York where I went forward on green but ended up in the middle of a junction unable to turn right unless I went on red. After a couple of times getting stuck I reported it and it got fixed next day.
     
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  4. There's that bonkers roundabout in Hemel ....
    Think it's called the plough or something - the planner was deffo on some kind of mushroom that day ...

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  5. Magic Roundabout! I can’t remember what it’s called either
    It’s got twenty mini roundabouts around a big one ...... slightly exaggerated but nuts


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  6. ginger ninja

    ginger ninja Supporter

    Yes 12 years at least. As long as I've lived in brentford. It's not sequenced wrong. Just really bad design. It's a bit like a traffic light controlled round about entrance but with some traffic coming all the way round at you as you enter on green. Mad!.

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  7. Razzyh

    Razzyh Supporter

    It’s called plough roundabout if your a bit posh or magic roundabout if your anyone else
     
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  8. Dougal ? Ermingtrude ?
     
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  9. Boiiiiiiiiiiing
     
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  10. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    Time for bed.
     
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  11. we have a roundabout in Chester where the A41 meets the A55 and a couple of local roads it's a real challenge for people that don't know it three or four lanes from each direction and all mixed up it's crazy
     
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  12. The one in Hemel Hempstead is called the plough but known as the Magic Roundabout

    Should be called the kamikaze


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  13. If you're a true Hemel Hempsteadian, it's Moor End roundabout or the Plough, after the pub that used to be there years ago.

    Only...strangers...call it Magic.
     
  14. I'm not strange,or is that a different thing
     
  15. Shouldn’t you be bopping down the Top Rank, Watfordian ;)?
     
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  16. Perhaps you know I'm a member of the radio 1 club
     
  17. Do you mean this one??
    Traffic coming around the roundabout has right of way.
     

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  18. You have to jump off the flyover? :eek:
     
  19. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    That’s the one I guessed from his description!

    Don’t forget this little one

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    And very boringly they have turned cherry lane roundabout back into an almost roundabout. there used to be two main roads crossing the centre with as much carnage as you can imagine.
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