Roundabouts

They're all over the place in the UK. They're actually really easy if you use them all the time. Although there are some drivers who need to learn some lane discipline when using them!!!

I hate roundabouts. We have three in a row going out to the college. There's an alternate route I take, roundabout free.

Britain is full of them (I think that my village has eight mini roundabouts in about a mile of its High Street), so we are quite used to them. Most of them are very easy to manage once you know the two simple rules. (1) Traffic actually on the roundabout has right of way and (2) traffic entering the roundabout gives way to traffic from the left (if you are in a country which drives on the right, as most countries in the world do). There are a few really confusing roundabouts - there was (or maybe still is) one in a town called Tring which is one large one surrounded by four smaller ones, which I try and avoid if I ever go that way - but most are well-designed and well signed (and well lit) so that it's not difficult to know which lane you should be in and where your exit is. Their advantage is that, mostly, they keep the traffic flowing better than lights do and, where there are intersections with five or more exits, it is much simpler to negotiate them than it would be if it were controlled by lights. I thought that they were almost unknown in the United States (and that they were called 'circulatories') but it seems from your responses here that some states have them and others don't.

I have no choice but to get used to them as they are very common, everywhere, and simply all over the place down here...

we have quiet a few here .You get used to it after awhile.Really not too bad

There is one near here but I think they are changing it. There is one near my daughter, and I find it confusing.

i don't drive. i think it roundabouts are called rotonda here.

I love roundabouts they keep traffic flowing . We have them here but theya re not as common as they are in England.

I agree with you and I don't care for them either.. We don't have any here but in the last month they have started talking about them..

I think its good for traffic.

I do NOT like them, I find them confusing and stressful. We have a few here, and I avoid driving down those streets, because of them.

@Marcyaz We have some. I don't drive yet so I have never driven around them myself but I can still see how annoying they can be sometimes though.

There are loads here I think they are more of a european thing I think they are way better than traffic lights. In my city there are A LOT of roundabouts...I thought in the US they were called traffic circles?

We have plenty of these. One of the four nearest is like the image at the top. Only there is fourth opening to it too which goes straight up a flyover.

My work place is in the central of New Delhi. While coming to office I need to criss cross lots of roundabouts and it is really puzzling and a pain the neck. Many people do not have traffic sense here and they go haywire on roundabouts. Sometimes I even turn my car on the wrong road because during night all roads connected with the roundabouts look alike. I prefer a crossing with red light, which is much safer and easy to negotiate, while driving. A picture of roundabout in New Delhi area - Picture courtesy -

All you have to do is always keep right. They have them a lot in small towns and villages around here. Once I was going around one and a little old lady was coming at me the wrong way. The best part about that was, there was another little old lady following behind her.

There are a few here. I dont mind them but have not driven for ages. I got used to them in England.

they build one'f those out by where my vet used to be. if'n ya think they're trouble with jest a car, ya ought'a try navigatin' the dang thingies with a 28 foot horse trailer 'hind'ja! what a nightmare!

There are none here, but they played havoc on us in Cairo and Budapest.

I am not wild about them as they are used on neighbor hood streets to slow traffic