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![Roundabouts UK_Roundabout_8_Cars](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/UK_Roundabout_8_Cars.gif)
Movement within a roundabout in a country where traffic drives on the left. Note the clockwise circulation. There is also a right hand side version of the animation.
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![Roundabouts 680px-UK_traffic_sign_510.svg](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/UK_traffic_sign_510.svg/680px-UK_traffic_sign_510.svg.png)
Traffic sign to identify a roundabout in the UK (left-hand traffic).
![Roundabouts Mini-roundabout](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Mini-roundabout.jpg)
A mini-roundabout in the United Kingdom, where a painted white circle is used for the centre. The arrows show the direction of traffic flow.
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![Roundabouts 800px-CarlandCrossRoundaboutA30Cornwall](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/CarlandCrossRoundaboutA30Cornwall.jpg/800px-CarlandCrossRoundaboutA30Cornwall.jpg)
A typical trunk road roundabout in the UK at Carland Cross on the A30 in Cornwall.
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![Roundabouts 800px-ChivertonCrossRoundaboutA30Cornwall](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/ChivertonCrossRoundaboutA30Cornwall.jpg/800px-ChivertonCrossRoundaboutA30Cornwall.jpg)
Traffic congestion approaching Chiverton Cross roundabout in Cornwall, UK.
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Cycle lanes on St John's roundabout in Newbury, Berkshire, England. This example is from a country where traffic keeps to the left, and traffic in the circular roadway of the roundabout travels clockwise.
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![Roundabouts 800px-Sadlers_farm_roundabout](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Sadlers_farm_roundabout.jpg/800px-Sadlers_farm_roundabout.jpg)
Sadlers Farm roundabout, England.
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A major signal-controlled roundabout interchange in central Bristol, England. Vehicles drive on the left, and vehicles in the roundabout are stopped by traffic lights to allow other vehicles to enter, while an underpass permits straight-through traffic to bypass the roundabout entirely.
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If you're about to take your driving test, here's a tutorial about dealing with roundabouts in the UK:
http://www.2pass.co.uk/roundabout.htm
http://www.2pass.co.uk/roundabout.htm
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Once you've matered the basics, you're ready to graduate to the "Magic Roundabout":
![Roundabouts 800px-Magic_Roundabout_Schild_db](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Magic_Roundabout_Schild_db.jpg/800px-Magic_Roundabout_Schild_db.jpg)
Sign approaching the Magic Roundabout, Swindon from the south on the B4289
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Sign approaching the magic roundabout, Hemel Hempstead.
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Sign approaching the Magic Roundabout, Swindon from the south on the B4289
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Sign approaching the magic roundabout, Hemel Hempstead.
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Road sign for a roundabout in Germany (right-hand traffic). In the UK this symbol (with the arrows reversed) is used at mini roundabouts.
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![Roundabouts 437px-Turborotonde.svg](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Turborotonde.svg/437px-Turborotonde.svg.png)
The basic shape of the Dutch turbo roundabout.
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Give Way sign at a roundabout in Australia (left-hand traffic).
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Road sign before a roundabout in the U.S. (right-hand traffic) - A similar sign is used in the Republic of Ireland (with directions reversed).
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Small modern roundabout in the US (vehicles are driven on the right).
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![Roundabouts 800px-DiamondRoundabout](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/DiamondRoundabout.jpg/800px-DiamondRoundabout.jpg)
Roundabout in the United States with separated side lanes. Vehicles entering the roundabout give way to vehicles in the roundabout. As of March 2009 the road at upper left carries 10,400 vehicles per weekday.
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Raindrop roundabout at an Interstate interchange in North Carolina.
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A hybrid raindrop roundabout in Zagreb, Croatia. These two roundabouts are more akin to a magic roundabout since the left turns need not drive through both of them.
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![Roundabouts 066821_3bdb765c](https://2img.net/h/s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/06/68/066821_3bdb765c.jpg)
Roundabout Art, Skelmersdale
The largest of Skelmersdales many roundabouts, this artwork is part of an award winning improvement project was completed in 2002, called the Elements. This involved the installation of public art sculptures on the major roundabouts along the town's main road corridor which also include a fibre optic light tower as well as a fascinating sculpture made up of images of local residents. The Marie Curie Hope Island is the home of the Gateway artwork, as well as a tribute to all cancer sufferers. The Elements project was given a Royal Town Planning Institute award soon after its completion
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Roundabout Art
Sculpture by Andy Scott, one of several at roundabouts in Clackmannanshire.
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A roundabout dog (Swedish: rondellhund, originally Östgötsk rondellhund, "Östergötland roundabout dog", a punk on västgötaspets) is a form of street installation, that began occurring in the autumn of 2006, and continued for the rest of the year with sporadic occurrences since then. The phenomenon consists of anonymous people placing homemade dog sculptures, typically made of wood (or sometimes plastic, metal or textile) in roundabouts (traffic circles). Occurrences were reported all over Sweden, and the phenomenon also spread to other countries, such as Spain after it was mentioned on Spanish television (PuntoDos). Swedish tabloid paper Expressen even placed one at Piccadilly Circus.
![Roundabouts 800px-Rondellhund3](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Rondellhund3.JPG/800px-Rondellhund3.JPG)
Roundabout dog on the huge Vallarondellen roundabout (300m in diameter), in Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden.
Roundabout dog on the huge Vallarondellen roundabout (300m in diameter), in Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden.
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Roundabout dog at the Piccott's End roundabout at Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England.
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Monolithic tree roundabouts in Vancouver:
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Possibly the most famous example of roundabout Art:
![Roundabouts 458px-Piccadilly](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Piccadilly.jpg/458px-Piccadilly.jpg)
Piccadilly Circus memorial fountain with Anteros, popularly referred to as Eros or sometimes The Angel of Christian Charity, one of the first statues to be cast in aluminium.
![Roundabouts 458px-Piccadilly](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Piccadilly.jpg/458px-Piccadilly.jpg)
Piccadilly Circus memorial fountain with Anteros, popularly referred to as Eros or sometimes The Angel of Christian Charity, one of the first statues to be cast in aluminium.
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Possibly the most famous Magic Roundabout:
![Roundabouts Magic_roundabout](https://2img.net/h/upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Magic_roundabout.JPG)
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