Magic Roundabout Swindon
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:32 am
I visited Swindon yesterday and had the pleasure of using this roundabout. I don't normally have a problem with it as I can usually reach my destination by going round the outside. But this time for the exit I needed it was only really practical to go through the centre part. I hate the centre part of the roundabout as I always get confused by the large number of lanes with straight on arrows and can never work out which lane I should be in.
Coming from County Road I needed the exit to Devizes (the 3rd of 4). On approach to the roundabout(s) I got in the right lane. However after the first mini-roundabout you come to four lanes as shown here:
http://goo.gl/maps/zMyX0
At this point I was confused as to which of the four lanes I needed to be in to get over to the right turn lane going into the next mini-roundabout. At the time I used the 2nd lane, but had to drop back and get behind the car alongside me in the 3rd lane that was going the same way - so based on this I imagine I was wrong?
Coming from County Road I needed the exit to Devizes (the 3rd of 4). On approach to the roundabout(s) I got in the right lane. However after the first mini-roundabout you come to four lanes as shown here:
http://goo.gl/maps/zMyX0
At this point I was confused as to which of the four lanes I needed to be in to get over to the right turn lane going into the next mini-roundabout. At the time I used the 2nd lane, but had to drop back and get behind the car alongside me in the 3rd lane that was going the same way - so based on this I imagine I was wrong?