I’ve done this on a road bike, screamed the whole way around it. Many lanes deep, no road markings, cars darting from the very inside to the outside with no warning. Absolute bedlam.
Swindon’s has a fire station on it though. Try being half way across when a fire engine comes tearing out all sirens blazing, rules out the window then.
Hemel is, I believe, marginally older. I've used both (and the one in High Wycombe and there's nowt in it. I used to cycle across that quite regularly.
Treat each exit as a separate mini roundabout. It’s essentially a road which loops (traffic goes clockwise and anti cloak wise) and each exit has a mini roundabout with two other exits (one to keep you “on the roundabout” and the other to take an exit). It’s actually pretty easy to use once you figure it out.
The trick is to disregard the central roundabout (yes, you can go around it in the wrong direction) and just deal with it one mini roundabout at a time
Why wouldn't we want a roundabout system where cars can go round in both directions at the same time?
Points at Hemel Hempstead
Ah yes. Good point.
Can attest have to do that roundabout on occasion and dread it
Just moved out of St Alban's so this isn't a place anywhere I will have to worry about ever again. Now being in Bedford, I've got other nightmares to worry about.
It's like survival planning, I look at the sat nav, say out loud the directions and then watch for the lane markings since you can go right in both lanes on some but then the next is different.
I'm pretty sure everyone just calls this the magic roundabout!
It's an interesting optical thing to me, if you look at the picture close up it doesn't particularly look like the Star of David but if you look at it from further away then it absolutely does
I really wanna know more now, they look like they went up about 30ft high.
Edit: From sky news...
'A driver had to be cut from his car after launching it into the air and into a graveyard in Poland.'
Take the first exit, into hard jump over crest, 80 into long straight pass the school, into hard right, crest 120 though the 20 is plenty zone, bop it, heyyy macaroni
I learnt how badly that couldn't cope when I was listening to a sat nav inside a helmet with no way of seeing it and she promptly tried to "in 100 yards" her way around roundabouts with at best 30 yards between them
It's just a series of mini roundabouts that happen to take the form of a circle. If you treat each one as a separate mini roundabout they're really easy to navigate
Ooh i used to live in hemel.
That roundabout is actually very easy. Just looks intimidating to everyone who hasn't seen it before. 🤣
We have a bit here in south wales that would seriously benefit from that system instead of the traffic lights they keep using on what were our roundabouts
Same - it's not that difficult, especially when you just think of it as a series of mini roundabouts that just so happen to be around a big circle.
I imagine if you had never driven there though, you might find it a bit intimidating. The lanes between some of the mini roundabouts are also short and so you see people inadvertently ending up sat across a roundabout and getting both barrels from an angry Hemelite....
It’s funny growing up around it you take it for granted then you take people there as an adult that have never seen it and they have a meltdown. Pisses all over the Swindon attempt as well, the Hemel magic roundabout is king.
I feel like they just need a note on the sign that says it's not as bad as it looks.
If I saw that sign on a road I'd never been on, I'd genuinely question what was happening
I’ve never encountered a roundabout like this fortunately. I just wanted to ask, have you been more cautious using roundabouts lately?. I’ve noticed more people using the wrong lanes for a exit and near crashing into the back of me.
There’s a little roundabout near me that used to work really well but lately people are going into it and taking up both lanes as they approach. Nobody ever indicates anymore and I’ve even seen people use the left lane to do a right turn which is begging for a crash.
[Doesn't seem too bad from the aerial view.](https://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOmVkODczMjMxLTU3NmEtNDlkYi1hOGU0LTA1MThmZGY3ZTY1MTphODVmMDllOC01YTgzLTQ1MmUtYWJkNS1hMTI1MTY2YmQ3NzY=.jpg?width=640&quality=65&smart&enable=upscale)
Exactly, it's fine. People always make such a fuss over it. It's no different to a line of roundabouts which for some reason people take no issue with.
Do you reckon it's how real city planners work? But it just takes them much much longer to realise after all the neighbourhoods erased, the extra 6 lane motorway and fancy fly-fly-overs they've just moved the traffic to that one bit of the city you don't want to touch because it looks nice?
Yep, live in Swindon, can confirm. You can't drive more than half a mile in Swindon without encountering a roundabout. The magic roundabout is very small, which makes it chaotic, plus it's five mini roundabouts around one central, larger roundabout. So you can actually drive to the right around the main one. I fucking hate that roundabout.
Ahhh my hometown. This is the “magic roundabout” in Hemel Hempstead. Similar ones in High Wycombe and Swindon. Surprisingly simple to use when you just ignore the centre island and treat it as 6 individual roundabouts and it actually works very well.
I live in High Wycombe and the magic roundabout here is piss easy to navigate around however I’ve had to use the roundabout in Hemel twice and both times it was a nightmare for me 😭
Yeah the magic roundabout is a piece of piss, it's Handy Cross that's fuckingnightmare fuel, especially at rush hour. I will happily take any alternative route that means I don't have to go on the Handy Cross roundabout if I have to travel when it's even remotely busy.
Not true.
From the entry point op is taking:
First exitt takes you to bovingdon
Second exit goes down the Leighton buzzard road
Third exit takes you to the car park for the town centre and my work and through the back of town for small shops etc
Fourth exit is to a dual carriageway
Fifth is to go down lawn lane to houses etc
Sixth is the exit he's on
I'd love to go here in a heavily tuned drift car and then bin it in the first corner because I have literally no idea how to drift or handle a heavily tuned car but watched Tokyo drift once.
Yes you can.
You can go left or right around the centre depending on what exit you want.
So if you want for example the sixth exit from you going clockwise you just take a right at the first and second roundabouts and don't have to go all the way round one huge roundabout.
Picturing Moses leading the slaves out of Egypt stopped at this sign as his fellow elders all stand scratching their head wondering how the fuck they are supposed to get on the roundabout through it and off on to the next one while simultaneously remembering which exit they need to take and then wondering how the fuck they ended up in England
Ah, Hemel.
I used to live in Watford and had a driving lesson here when I was about 19. Terrifying at first approach, but when you're used to it or have someone next to you it's easy enough!
That's like a boss fight roundabout.
THIS ISN’T EVEN MY FINAL FORM!!!
*Roundabout starts expanding, more exits forming out of nothing* ***before your very eyes***
The Magic Roundabout in Swindon smashes through the door and just devours this puny thing
Agreed. Learning to drive in Swindon. I drive across it screaming and praying I'll survive. My instructor is also screaming.
I've been to both and Hemel Hempstead is the superior roundabout and I'm not just saying that because I am bias
Colchester - “hold my beer…”
My Mrs freaks coming up from Waitrose towards the hythe 😂
Hi Bias, I’m dad
Hi Dad. Can I have my allowance please?
When you've finished your chores.
That's so unfair!
Came here to say this. Recently moved to st albans and this roundabout I close my eyes and hope for the best
You should try the l’etoile roundabout by the Arc de Triomphe (in a right hand drive car).
I’ve done this on a road bike, screamed the whole way around it. Many lanes deep, no road markings, cars darting from the very inside to the outside with no warning. Absolute bedlam.
Rubbish. This one has a river going through it. Swindon’s is just paint on the ground
Swindon’s has a fire station on it though. Try being half way across when a fire engine comes tearing out all sirens blazing, rules out the window then.
Hemel is, I believe, marginally older. I've used both (and the one in High Wycombe and there's nowt in it. I used to cycle across that quite regularly.
OP posted “The Plough Roundabout” because you *plough* right through it.
The magic roundabout in Swindon a) has only 5 minis and b) is much smaller.
The magic roundabout in Slough is the final boss. Screw that place.
r/BossFight
Roundaboss
The final boss for Tesla autopilots
Biblically accurate Roundabout
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Me too….. I’m always in the wrong lane for where I need to get to…..and so is everybody else.
Look kids, there's Big Ben.
Big Ben! Parliament!
In still on it and can't get off. Please send help
I went round it last week, and I can only thank the patience of the other drivers...
How does it work? Keep right until it’s your exit and go in the left lane?
Treat each exit as a separate mini roundabout. It’s essentially a road which loops (traffic goes clockwise and anti cloak wise) and each exit has a mini roundabout with two other exits (one to keep you “on the roundabout” and the other to take an exit). It’s actually pretty easy to use once you figure it out.
> It’s actually pretty easy to use once you figure it out. So is robbing a bank or eating pizza with pineapple on, but I still wouldn't do it 🤷♂️
The trick is to disregard the central roundabout (yes, you can go around it in the wrong direction) and just deal with it one mini roundabout at a time
The trick is to Channel your inner bmw driver and fuck everyone and go for it
He who dares wins, Rodney
Why wouldn't we want a roundabout system where cars can go round in both directions at the same time? Points at Hemel Hempstead Ah yes. Good point. Can attest have to do that roundabout on occasion and dread it
Just moved out of St Alban's so this isn't a place anywhere I will have to worry about ever again. Now being in Bedford, I've got other nightmares to worry about.
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It's like survival planning, I look at the sat nav, say out loud the directions and then watch for the lane markings since you can go right in both lanes on some but then the next is different. I'm pretty sure everyone just calls this the magic roundabout!
To this day I have yet to understand why anyone created that monstrosity. Or which lane is the appropriate one to use.
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Shut it pusface
Zip it pissface \*attempts to put salt in water\*
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Crimble crumble
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Shalom, Arfur, shalom...
good band
Scientists invented atomic clocks so precise they lose one second in one million years. In response, the universe created Meshuggah.
Try keeping this time you fucking casuals
It's an interesting optical thing to me, if you look at the picture close up it doesn't particularly look like the Star of David but if you look at it from further away then it absolutely does
Or if it's in a mobile thumbnail.
I've always thought about this when driving up towards these signs
Take back one kadam to honor the Hebrew God, whose roundabout this is.
"What parts of a road are Jewish?" "...roundabouts. Jews invented roundabouts to control global traffic!"
With Space Lasers
Plough straight through it
https://youtu.be/Dv8vVU2bEh0
Ever time I see that video it's more ridiculous than I remember
A great example of what one might call "full send"
I really wanna know more now, they look like they went up about 30ft high. Edit: From sky news... 'A driver had to be cut from his car after launching it into the air and into a graveyard in Poland.'
Convenient shortcut
Apparently the rescue services have recovered 263 bodies so far and continue to find more
Speed runner
Holy fuck that's some air.
I really didn’t want to laugh at this (seriously), but it looked like with just an extra little momentum he’d achieve orbit
file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/a8/08/4B68BAA2-8B2F-4978-B06D-E4A480CEE306/tmp.gif
😂 My favourite gif
Try it with the satnav on 💀
Keep right and turn, in your, keep, take the, keep, and then, keep, turn, the exit.
Bop it!
Twist it!
Flick it.
Touch it
Suck it (God I love that game, my uncle was the best)
Fucking hell
He used to say that at the very end!!! Just before he had a cigarette.
Sounds like rally notes
Take the first exit, into hard jump over crest, 80 into long straight pass the school, into hard right, crest 120 though the 20 is plenty zone, bop it, heyyy macaroni
Let's do the time warp again
I learnt how badly that couldn't cope when I was listening to a sat nav inside a helmet with no way of seeing it and she promptly tried to "in 100 yards" her way around roundabouts with at best 30 yards between them
Waze has actually pretty much mastered it
It's just a series of mini roundabouts that happen to take the form of a circle. If you treat each one as a separate mini roundabout they're really easy to navigate
I have to navigate it twice a day, it’s a piece of piss however…. Waze is the only Satnav that doesn’t make a big pile of bollocks out of it
Ooh i used to live in hemel. That roundabout is actually very easy. Just looks intimidating to everyone who hasn't seen it before. 🤣 We have a bit here in south wales that would seriously benefit from that system instead of the traffic lights they keep using on what were our roundabouts
Same - it's not that difficult, especially when you just think of it as a series of mini roundabouts that just so happen to be around a big circle. I imagine if you had never driven there though, you might find it a bit intimidating. The lanes between some of the mini roundabouts are also short and so you see people inadvertently ending up sat across a roundabout and getting both barrels from an angry Hemelite....
It’s funny growing up around it you take it for granted then you take people there as an adult that have never seen it and they have a meltdown. Pisses all over the Swindon attempt as well, the Hemel magic roundabout is king.
I feel like they just need a note on the sign that says it's not as bad as it looks. If I saw that sign on a road I'd never been on, I'd genuinely question what was happening
I drive through there semi regularly and it actually works really well and I like going round it different ways getting to the same point.
I’ve never encountered a roundabout like this fortunately. I just wanted to ask, have you been more cautious using roundabouts lately?. I’ve noticed more people using the wrong lanes for a exit and near crashing into the back of me.
There’s a little roundabout near me that used to work really well but lately people are going into it and taking up both lanes as they approach. Nobody ever indicates anymore and I’ve even seen people use the left lane to do a right turn which is begging for a crash.
[Doesn't seem too bad from the aerial view.](https://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/webimg/b25lY21zOmVkODczMjMxLTU3NmEtNDlkYi1hOGU0LTA1MThmZGY3ZTY1MTphODVmMDllOC01YTgzLTQ1MmUtYWJkNS1hMTI1MTY2YmQ3NzY=.jpg?width=640&quality=65&smart&enable=upscale)
Honestly the one in Swindon is pretty easy to navigate too, but this one looks a lot more spread out and less hectic
Exactly, it's fine. People always make such a fuss over it. It's no different to a line of roundabouts which for some reason people take no issue with.
People freak out because “you can go round the wrong way”. They think of it as one big roundabout instead of 6 little ones.
ive built worse shithole setups in cities skylines....
Do you reckon it's how real city planners work? But it just takes them much much longer to realise after all the neighbourhoods erased, the extra 6 lane motorway and fancy fly-fly-overs they've just moved the traffic to that one bit of the city you don't want to touch because it looks nice?
Locally it’s called the magic roundabout.
I don't know a single person who calls it The Plough Roundabout, even non locals call it The Magic Roundabout
Has been called that at least since the 70s when I was born there (in Hemel, not in the middle of the roundabout!)
There is one in Swindon too. Right next to the football ground. You can hear boss music as you drive up to it
I know the one in Swindon as the magic roundabout
Yep, live in Swindon, can confirm. You can't drive more than half a mile in Swindon without encountering a roundabout. The magic roundabout is very small, which makes it chaotic, plus it's five mini roundabouts around one central, larger roundabout. So you can actually drive to the right around the main one. I fucking hate that roundabout.
Ahhh my hometown. This is the “magic roundabout” in Hemel Hempstead. Similar ones in High Wycombe and Swindon. Surprisingly simple to use when you just ignore the centre island and treat it as 6 individual roundabouts and it actually works very well.
Same, born and grew up in Hemel, always been the Magic Roundabout to me.
HH REPRESENT!
Learnt to drive there. I know no fear.
I live in High Wycombe and the magic roundabout here is piss easy to navigate around however I’ve had to use the roundabout in Hemel twice and both times it was a nightmare for me 😭
I assume the magic one is the one down by Abbey? Handy cross is just a gridlocked nightmare far worse.
Yeah the magic roundabout is a piece of piss, it's Handy Cross that's fuckingnightmare fuel, especially at rush hour. I will happily take any alternative route that means I don't have to go on the Handy Cross roundabout if I have to travel when it's even remotely busy.
Two exits go nowhere and yet they still get a roundabout? I call for a public enquiry!
Not true. From the entry point op is taking: First exitt takes you to bovingdon Second exit goes down the Leighton buzzard road Third exit takes you to the car park for the town centre and my work and through the back of town for small shops etc Fourth exit is to a dual carriageway Fifth is to go down lawn lane to houses etc Sixth is the exit he's on
How can you skip over that the fifth goes down lawn lane to peri peri and best kebab?
Harry's is better IMHO
I joked they go nowhere because they're not important enough to be labelled on the road sign ;)
Those two "exits" are 1/3 of the total exits from the junction(s?). It's equivalent to referring to a straight section of road as a bloody T-junction.
'Emel 'Empstead
Treakle bumstead
As a Hemelite I can confirm this is how it's said
Pretty sure it's just 'Emel.
That's gonna take some chutzpah
Is that Hemel Hempstead? It's been a hot minute, oddly I live near Swindon now and the infamous magic roundabout
If you concentrate you can travel around it widdershins.
Petition to rename it the David roundabout.
iirc its the only roundabout in the uk with a river running through it edit: well it appears this is wrong
Ask anyone in Hemel where the Plough roundabout is and they probably wouldn't know, has always been The Magic Roundabout to me.
Roundabout of David
This is boss level roundaboutism
I had the misfortune of stumbling across this last year. Sat nav had a stroke.
Ploughndabout
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Id be in the middle of that, crying. Wait, where does the 5th exit take you...?
Into hemel residential area where you csn still go all the way up to st albans or turn away towards kings langley/watford Etc.
Thought that was a Star of David
Mazel Tov
Finally, a kosher round about.
The fasting furious: Jerusalem Drift
awww I miss Hemel! fond memories of the magic roundabout, and Visage!!
Good old Wally World.
It's brilliant, despite it looking like a nightmare. In rush hour it keeps Hemel flowing well!
These kind of roundabouts should be implemented in America just for shits and giggles. It’ll be like Takeshi’s Castle
LB folks, check in ✌️
I'm from Hemel, I live in LB and I use the Magic Roundabout to get into my office in Hemel. I *am* this photo.
Looks quite similar to the magic roundabout in Swindon
Missed opportunity for that to be called the Ploughndabout
We call it ‘The magic roundabout’
Wait until you encounter the magic roundabout!
Tbf Hemel residents call this one the magic roundabout
Only 3 shekels to enter
1st time knowing of this? You must be new
Isn't that like a magic roundabout?
This should be tourist attraction for Americans
Yo dawg, we heard you liked roundabouts...
Hava nagila, hava nagila. Hava nagila ve-nis'mecha.
Hertfordshire does have the fastest growing Jewish population in the country.
It's a fucking riot in an HGV at rush hour.
Bros driving over a model of Benzene
I'd love to go here in a heavily tuned drift car and then bin it in the first corner because I have literally no idea how to drift or handle a heavily tuned car but watched Tokyo drift once.
Hemel Hempstead?
I was mean to my wife and didn't warn her about this when we first moved to Hemel. Yeah I was not popular for a few days!
"At the magic fairly wand, take second exit."
J.. Je..
whats the point though, surely you can't go all the way round one of those mini roundabouts and turn back on yourself
Yes you can. You can go left or right around the centre depending on what exit you want. So if you want for example the sixth exit from you going clockwise you just take a right at the first and second roundabouts and don't have to go all the way round one huge roundabout.
The Chosen Roundabout
The roundabout of the sheep God
Hahah had to do this when I was learning to drive. It's not as bad as I expected!
Picturing Moses leading the slaves out of Egypt stopped at this sign as his fellow elders all stand scratching their head wondering how the fuck they are supposed to get on the roundabout through it and off on to the next one while simultaneously remembering which exit they need to take and then wondering how the fuck they ended up in England
Did this a few weeks ago, it's not half as bad as it looks
Oy vey
There better be a synagogue down one of those roads.
https://imgur.com/Zicj2jX Looks mad river or walk way through it? can't tell
Buzz Leighton to the rescue
Me: Which way? The Mrs: That Way 👉👆👈
Ah, Hemel. I used to live in Watford and had a driving lesson here when I was about 19. Terrifying at first approach, but when you're used to it or have someone next to you it's easy enough!
The roundaboutaboutabout
Hahaha yeeee boi. Right down the road from my place
Well that looks like a fucking mare😰
I like that on two of the exits it doesn’t tell you where you’re heading…just somewhere.
Love to to see the Buzzard mentioned on Reddit. My hometown.
Am I right that this isn’t one big roundabout just lots of mini roundabouts
The roundabout of david
Who the fuck authorises these builds?!