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Honestly that’s just the most inefficient thing I’ve seen.

Wow. The most inefficient and unneccessary piece of garbage I've ever seen.

Organised chaos. This tops Nijmegen’s roundabouts

What is the point of the inner circle? I think one circle can do the same thing. You still need to stop and give way.

Just decide where you want to exit and when you enter just give way. It's easy.

It looks quite disruptive. It's not like once you're in it, the traffic just flows out.

Wtf is this even

Number of cuts in this video: 3 Number of cuts we needed : 0

Challenge: try to actually watch a car go through the roundabout before the video cuts again. 🥲

Maybe this is one of the reasons i will never try to drive in th Uk if i will reach there.I'am watching to this for about 30 minutes and my brain just can't realize the rules, because everything is upside -down for us ,for who are used to drive on the left.

If you look closely there is a pedestrian standing on the island in the center.. He's been there two years.

Unsure why they didn't make the center roundabout clockwise

So this roundabout is real? Holy moly... there is NO need at all for the inner circle. You get anywhere from the outer one as well. To use the inner circle as a short cut, you have to cross TWICE the other traffic. That makes sense at 3 a.m. when you're alone. Even to think about all the decisions that have to be made drives me crazy.

Not as good as Hemel Hempstead's Magic Roundabout 😊 .....just saying!

Hahaha 😂😂😂😂😂 😮😮😮😮😮 😔🥴😔

Ok, I've been staring at this for 5 minutes and I think I've got it. If you want to go to an exit that's left of where you're coming from, you move clockwise along the outer circle until you get to your exit. Technically I think you could get to all exits like that, treating it like a regular roundabout and ignoring the circle in the middle. But if you want to go to an exit that's right of where you're coming from you could also go through the mini circle at your entrance and onto the middle circle, move counterclockwise until you get to the mini circle by your exit and follow that to your actual exit.

I can’t get around driving on the left , than to throw this in too . Nope not me

madness

If I drive in, someone has to take me out in 2060 😂

Swindon, with all these lanes you're really spoiling us; the one in Hemel only has 2 to 3 lanes in any one direction. Btw, I just discovered that I can't count. I thought this one had 7 mini roundabout, but it's only got 5.

I am still trying to fathom this, sent to me by Swindon folk. At almost 69 years of age, female & Australian, I have been a driver since I turned 16. I have not had accidents & driven a variety of cars, manual (3 & 4, 5 & 6 speed) from an old Anglia to a Jensen Interceptor, 5.8L V8 muscle car, Mini, VW Kombi van, tractor, 16 seater bus on a ladies outing.... etc. Driving is a favourite thing of mine even today. Just follow the RULES people, in all situations, & we would all get where we want to go, safely. Thank you!🥰🙏🦘🦘🦘

Engineer "oKAY BOSS, how complex do you want that roundabout?" Boss: "YES"

I LOVE this roundabout. when I first drove through Swindon at 19 my then husband thought it would be hilarious to put me through it. I was terrified but I survived. The Swindon folk say, close your eyes and pray. I've now used it for many, many years and it is an amazingly safe roundabout.

this looks absolutely horrible.

holding the camera still would have been less nauseating.

I still can't figure out who has the right of way when you get in

We could never have something like this in America. People would not understand how to use it.

rotondas dentro de rotondas y encima circulando en contra dirección el mas difícil todavía están locos estos ingleses

Confusing at first but really simple once you’ve got it

As one of the few Americans who's fine with roundabouts, seeing this in action actually made me more afraid of it. It's got more traffic and less flow than I expected.

Looks fairly straight forward. At least it's not littered with traffic lights that stop you for no reason, let you go when the road ahead is full and expect you to change lanes before they change back to red........of course this video is a few years old and the planners may have succumbed to temptation!

Red car sitting in the middle of the near mini-roundabout from 0:33 to 0:47 making me angry.

This will sort out the early onset Alzheimer's folk from the Boys? 😂

it's pretty smart, especially because it makes it so that you don't have to circle the entire thing to go to the exit to the right of where you enter.

I actually think that it is simple and very good way to distribute traffic in the intersection.

This is the best roundabout, of the world!

ach ohne deutsche klappt das

0:40 poor guy stuck on the foreground roundabout giving way to people who don't have right of way xD

I have lived in Swindon for 20 years and never heard of the Magic Roundabout before that. I love it - it keeps traffic moving, I’ve never experienced a traffic jam there. I don’t find it that intimidating at all you just take it a step at a time. As my driving instructor once said about the ‘infamous’ Clockhouse roundabout in Farnborough - it’s just a roundabout!

anyone fancy stealth camping that juicy roundabout?

Pretty awseome video except for that damn elevator musak in the background

Works great until an idiot drives into the intersection and stops. Never ever drive into any intersection if you are not certain you can get out of it.

I'll stop in the middle circle and cry, I'll stuck there forever by going into circles..

Dont understand why the additional complexity of the 5 small roundabouts.One big roundabout is much more simpler and serves the purpose.

Hi brother. I'm Dương. May I use some seconds of this video, I'm making a traffic video. Thank you very much! Thank you!

Swindon where?

I have used a couple of times and found it no bother, there's another one at I think it's Milton Keynes, Strange that all the problems and cutting one another up seams to be on the mini ones.

XTC brought me here 🇧🇷

Dear Mark, I was wondering if I could use this video on my website. I will ofcourse name you in the copyrights. Thank you in advance!

This is pretty fantastic...and I know I'd be afraid at least the first time through...but what a great idea for not idling and for keeping things moving!