It would work so much better without incompetent drivers. Too many turning the wrong way from their lane and not knowing how to keep the mini-roundabouts clear.
The mini roundabouts should have been at least 3ft in height. By the way plenty of times I have seen foreign drivers coming to a dead stop on the side, scratching their heads on how to drive through this and being left hand drive doesn't help much. But whoever thought of this deserves a pat as traffic throughput and shorter queues all round is achieved without boring accident causing traffic lights, plus drivers becoming more alert and multi visioned
Might work if one knows it well. But for a person like me who drove through Hemel the once in the 80s, I was totally confused and, despite one near head on collision (my fault) was glad I did not hit anything and survived.
It’s so you don’t have to drive all the way round to to come off at exit 5. You go round anti clockwise and only traverse one junction. Not from Hemel but used it loads and it works brilliantly if people don’t panic.
It would work so much better without incompetent drivers. Too many turning the wrong way from their lane and not knowing how to keep the mini-roundabouts clear.
Holy fucking shit... LOL
The mini roundabouts should have been at least 3ft in height. By the way plenty of times I have seen foreign drivers coming to a dead stop on the side, scratching their heads on how to drive through this and being left hand drive doesn't help much.
But whoever thought of this deserves a pat as traffic throughput and shorter queues all round is achieved without boring accident causing traffic lights, plus drivers becoming more alert and multi visioned
Might work if one knows it well. But for a person like me who drove through Hemel the once in the 80s, I was totally confused and, despite one near head on collision (my fault) was glad I did not hit anything and survived.
Sweet.
Omg this looks like a bunch of confusion
Wouldn’t work in Canada either end up with cars pile up lol
Crazy stuff. Something so messy and unpleasant to drive through. They must be all masochists in the UK 😀😀
It's very effective. Far better than the terrible 4 way intersections over in the states.
I waited for 10 naked men to making a complete turn at the roundabout.
Never work in SA
Sometimes i have to work around Hemel and these roundabouts cause me to laugh my head off when i see people who dont understand them!
What's the effing point of this monstrosity?
Agree
It’s so you don’t have to drive all the way round to to come off at exit 5. You go round anti clockwise and only traverse one junction. Not from Hemel but used it loads and it works brilliantly if people don’t panic.
To keep the effing traffic moving - which it does.
This looks stupid. The engineers are idiots for assuming the public is competent.
Not at all, generally it works pk and the locals are fine with it.
Piece of piss lol..... The worst thing about Hemel isn’t the roundabout, it’s the flooded roads when it rains 🤦♂️