@@thobu6576 You're not meant to use the roundabouts on a pushbike, there are bike lanes all around it with crossing lights (well there are now, there might not have been when you were at college)
It's pretty simple, it's just like five roundabouts in a row with dual carriageway roads linking them, there are a couple more of them in the UK (I live a few miles from one in Colchester) and they work fairly well.
For people from the UK and the US these two countries are the only actual places in existence. Can't ask one of them to wrap their heads around other places existing.
This! Literally, the world capital of roundabout is France (almost twice more roundabout per capita than the UK) and after the UK (2nd), it's Italy, Spain and Brazil, all right hand driving.
got 2 lane roundabouts with traffic litght too... + 2 lanes of coming in and out. people are to stupid to just stay in their line and watcht the signs which explains easily what to do... @@w.reincke4568
Fun round-a-bout story for yah. My Grandad was told 'Straight across here' and the legend just ran over the island. It took 7 years for the tire tracks to properly go He's since passed but the tire tracks were still there long after he died The round-a-bouts never forget
That was the best explanation of the magic roundabout I've ever seen. I actually understand it now. It really helps because in your version you can see grass in between the roads. The real one is all asphalt and much harder to see what's happening.
@@eddieb270 I love the idea of aliens invading, seemingly just ripping apart all infrastructure, but then rebuilding it in a much better way and leaving
Well, you just built Viseu here in Portugal. It's a relatively small city - about 100K people, but we have over 700 roundabouts here. We are known as "the city of roundabouts" 😆
I'm an American and let me put it this way: if there's nothing but grass in the middle of the roundabout, it will also have tire tracks from people driving straight across.
im suprised you can make the magic roundabout so easily. Well done! I hereby grant you the title 'The Rotund Lord of Bestagon' (I saw the magic roundabout in a top ten video yesterday for the first time and was suprised when your vid popped in my feed, seeing as i watch you so much and this had always been here for months).
Today was my first day being an engineer at my work place. Took me six months to get into this department. So it was a great day and looking forward to more engineering tomorrow!
@@Degasi14 taking the same exit and being at different places anyway sounds like some wizard shit. Not sure if accidental teleportation is a sign they're actually magic, or bad.
Matt thinking there isn’t roundabouts in the US is always funny to me. There a whole street in my city where all intersections were destroyed and they replaced about 8 of them with roundabouts and it saves about 15 minutes driving down that road now.
I wish my city had roundabouts. There's this intersection where there's a bunch of traffic from many places, including a middle school. It's always so annoying, traffic gets backed up over the hill and, in rare but still scenarios I've been in, traffic gets backed up from the school TO THE SIDEWALK ON THE INTERSECTION. Istg if there was a roundabout there, most issues would be fixed. Luckily they're rebuilding the school in another plot, so traffic won't back up so much, but that plot is downtown. Interested to see how that works out.
In my city, I think there are MAYBE 4 roundabouts. In the whole city. I kind wish there were more cuz i quite like them, but i think most areas are too high traffic for them (4 lane or 6 lane roads going into roundabouts are not pretty)
Americans wouldn't understand how to use them because of the poor education system... So they'd blast each other with guns when they get frustrated because of the second amendment... Then they'd go bankrupt paying for their medical bills because of the ludicrous healthcare system...
I'm from Denmark, and I know of the magic roundabout. My dad loves that thing. Not sure he's ever been on it though. You might find it interesting that there's only 1 architect drawn city in Denmark (at least to my knowledge) Kølvrå. It's designed to make pedestrian life easier, by only making T-crosses. This should apparently make it safer for kids to walk to school and keep cars semi slow. That's what I've been told at least.
I'm wondering how annoyed RCE will be once he finally finds out how much easier it is to use the continuous road tool to make roundabouts a lot easier.
I am in the US and I like roundabouts when they're necessary, my issue is people freak out in them. Go in, yield to other cars, go around. It is not hard, but other people make it so annoying. My chat in cities skylines often jokes about fixing traffic with roundabouts and I feel like this is what they really want from me xD
I live near 2 roundabouts and like them. 1 is basically useless (maybe just to ensure traffic stays slow?) as it's just in the middle of a 2 lane road. The other connects 5 roads together with technically enough room for a 6th that branches off the NE road just barely after the roundabout, all while having this thing that looks like it needs more room to do what it does! North end of Oviedo Blvd, FL for the curious.
@@zecuse "I live near 2 roundabouts" is such weird thing to see as a Dutchman. I live in a small town (50k-ish people) and in the square mile around me there are at least 4. There are probably a dozen littered about the entire town.
@@ricardoh.1575 Ya. America really doesn't like them. Honestly, I hate having to stop all the time and for as long as I have to at some of the stoplights I have to go through.
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I have to correct you! I live in right side driving USA and we do have (some) roundabouts! I grew up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and next to my town was the town of Orleans, that had a roundabout we called the Rotary, and then at the bridges over the Cape Cod Canal, there were also roundabouts. And that's just where I grew up! I saw 3 of them! And be honest, I've been to London, and you got some 4 way intersections in town with a little bump of concrete in the middle about 4 inches across like a little dome in the pavement, and while TECHNICALLY you drive around it, it's only a token roundabout :)
Just a heads up... Roundabouts are actually becoming more common in America. Where I live in Colorado almost every town within 100 miles has at least one roundabout.
America is adding them where they make sense. But they do not make sense in all places. Europe will always have more roundabouts per square mile because of population densities, how many people drive there, and length of travel.
@@jc_art_ From what i've seen , there is a kind of rivalry between architects and engineers. In fact, I'm convinced matt is a real civil engineer because he hates architects
I'm an American Uber driver, and I LOVE roundabouts! And yes, we go counter-clockwise, the CORRECT direction. I'd wager there are way more miles of right-hand roads in the world than left-hand, after all. Jests are all in good fun, btw. 😊 I wouldn't mind trying my hand at that super roundabout, though. It would be wild driving a car sitting on the wrong side, and going the wrong way, but I bet I could do it... with some night practice when there's less traffic, hopefully! 😬
I am an American and this video changed my mind I used to always say "I love roundabouts" and "Roundabouts are my favorite to go around because there's no traffic" Now I think that roundabouts suck. Truck drivers aren't making it anywhere on your roads, and there was a huge roundabout, where if you lived at the end of it, you have to drive all the way around just to get home.
They make sense only if there is a small enough amount of traffic, and there are enough intersections close together that a driver would have to stop many times. With more traffic or fewer intersections, they are worse. Roundabouts are also much more deadly for cyclists and pedestrians.
I'm American and there are a ton of roundabouts where I live. However, when all the out of town people come in, they don't know what to do so they just stop in the middle. Or, some people aren't brave enough and sit there for ever!
From the USA and we do have roundabouts, even out in more rural towns... at least mine does, starting to build more too... and man, love a good roundabout. Much MUCH better than traffic lights usually!
@@Tm-dn9ob shows it different? You yield in go right until you get to the road you need and turn out... only diff is right or left depending on side of road you drive.... yea there they also keep the middle free of anything for lorries but... I wouldn't say that warrants calling them diff....
@@christopherjunkins there’s also different angles of entry and priority’s and speed - I’m speaking from memory and different states have different rules so…
They only work in areas of high enough intersection density and low enough traffic density, and very little cyclist and pedestrian traffic. Used in the wrong place and they make things worse. Europeans naively assume that American infrastructure and population densities are similar to Europe, but it's a very different country and so what works is going to be different.
As a non American I am deeply offended by you assuming that we right hand drivers don't know what a roundabout is. We Germans take great pride in in our roundabouts.
"how am I a tiny village with only one person?" I could swear you've had this happen to you before. It's based on the exp. you gain, which can be increased by building structures and roads
One of the flaws of roundabouts is that you always have to slow down, yield and turn, even if you’re going straight. With low traffic in my town you can go from one side to the other at 40 mph without ever stopping or turning much, great on mpg, brakes and tire wear. Also at a stoplight you don’t need to yield and constantly try to slip into traffic, just wait til it turns green
That is not a flaw, slower traffic is safer in a residential area. It is why roundabouts are a bad idea for a highway, but they are great for any city application.
@@capitalironic commercial as in factories and warehouses or as in shops and restaurants? Because shops and restaurants should be built walkable anyway, with a lot of foot traffic around, therefore slower vehicles are beneficial. That would require America to stop building huge parking lots everywhere, though.
In Canada we often have those cul de sac roundabout, often in low density residential areas with houses built around, quite convenient you don't have to U-turn 😂
In Michigan (US), roundabouts are actually quite common, at least where I'm at and they're fun to drive through. They're a little intimidating at first, but usually very efficient
As am American, I'm really coming round to roundabouts. 'They' have done a decent job deciding where we need new ones and the traffic has lessened a lot in those areas. I'm especially impressed when they do well as a means to get on the highway.
I enjoy the American style semitruck with the UK style semitrailer. Very Australian. Our single USA semitrailers are slightly longer, mostly with one less axle and either no side guardrails at all or flimsy ones that are just for deflecting wind instead of being crashworthy. People freak out and stop sometimes when they see US trailers hop the center aprons in roundabouts. Not ideal, but amusing!
Great job at recreating the 17th century London sewer system in a town that is simultaneously incredibly british, incredibly dutch and incredibly american.
A few weeks ago I thought that it would be interesting if someone would have made a video where every road was a roundabout and I’ve seen this and I was very excited to click on this video.
As an Englishman, I can confirm that this is 95% of our roads. We legit have roundabouts that only have two exits in some parts of the country... Could have just been a simple turn, but we decided to make it a circle instead
In Cities Skylines 1 I built a city out of multiple concentric circles. The circles alternated which way round they went, and had a cross-shape of straight roads connecting the circles (including to each other). Then I set up buses - routes around each circle, and along the straight roads. Traffic was pretty chill.
11:52 i live in the Pacific Northwest and they LOVE roundabouts up here for being in the US. Theyre not everywhere but theyre mostly used to make people slow down in residential areas lol
roundabouts aren't super common in Canada but as soon as I took a moment to actually think about the magic roundabout I realized it actually makes a lot of sense. that being said, i would cry if i had to drive on it
It might have something to do with maintenance costs in Canada. Your weather tends to be harsher on your riads. Also, fewer bends with icy roads is wise
There are many roundabouts in the US. They're becoming popular. The issue is that not many people know how to use them efficiently, and they can be rather dangerous. Where I live, speed isn't strongly enforced in the slower parts of town, so people tend to go too fast, and follow too close, making it near impossible to enter the roundabout, much less change lanes to reach your destination. It ends up clogging traffic.
All I can think about is how bad the tire wear situation will be when every car is always turning. Think Id open a tire rotation and alignment shop if I lived here.
Is anyone gonna tell him that an "American" interstate highway interchange isn't the same as a city interchange? Or that the US has tons of roundabouts?
I’ve dealt with 5 in California so far, been driving for 10 years 😂 I’m in SoCal. Only the fancy neighborhoods throw one in to confuse us. Outside of that I saw one in Arizona. All I know is, if I dealt with the Swindon one I would just burn my license.
@@millygd955 First of all... there are about 13,000 roundabouts in the US. That google search result that says 9,000 is from a year ago and isn't including all roundabouts. Second, we only had about 3,700 ten years ago. So... yeah, it's turning into a thing.
@@millygd955 The UK is a lot more dense than the US. When people are packed in with a ton of intersections, but the population isn't that high overall, roundabouts make a lot of sense. In a very low density country with the occasional very high population city, they make very little sense.
Just to inform yous, as a Geraman I can tell you, thart we know roundabouts very good. Actually the village I life in has a Roundabout as its centre. BUt I love your videos keep it up!
One of the city planners in the US city I live in recently developed a love of roundabouts. They're everywhere. Even on country roads that don't get properly plowed and salted in the winter. That one probably shouldn't be there, but they generally make sense.
I was just starting to think this was an amazing idea when you brought up the concept that you're just technically in the middle of a roadway at all times so you could just get flattened in an instant
As a German I can say that I understand how this roundabout workes, u just have to switch left and right bc in germany we drive on right side of the road
Now that you done round abouts as an engineer dream, do the opposite with the American stop lights and making the layout in the best possible shapes, while seeing just how simple you can make a "complex" stoplight grid
Once you do that you can compare the two... Ofc you'll love the round about city, but this isn't thinking any different than an engineer,it's just more complex than roundabouts
I will never not be roasting Carmel, Indiana by saying this is just Carmel, Indiana. My dad INSISTED on finding a speedway in that town after a 3 hour drive to my surgeon's office and it was roundabout HELL. Every intersection was a roundabout or some abomination peanut roundabout. We got so lost
I, an American, grew up driving through the roundabout in the next town over. Though it was more of a trapezoid shape, and about an acre in size, and sometimes the oncoming lane had right of way giving the yield to drivers on the loop. Also, we call them traffic circles.
The Swindon Magic Roundabout awards list on Wikipedia: -In 2005, it was voted the worst roundabout in a survey of the general public by a UK insurance company. -In September 2007 it was named as one of the world's worst junctions by a UK motoring magazine. -In December 2007, BBC News reported a survey identifying The Magic Roundabout as one of the "10 Scariest Junctions in the United Kingdom". -In 2009, it was voted the fourth-scariest junction in Britain, according to a poll of 3,225 UK drivers.
Roundabouts are fine, but they get congested during rush hour. Some cities have time of day directional lane changes for asymmetrical traffic patterns. I.e. 3 of 4 lanes open toward downtown in the morning, and 3 of 4 lanes open heading out of the city for evening rush hour.
They get really bad any time there is a lot of traffic, or the traffic is unbalanced between entries. They're also murder if you have cyclists and pedestrians.
Roundabouts are the best; absolutely no stopsigns. You can design an ENTIRE CITY without stop signs thanks to roundabouts. My city is designed this way
As an American in Georgia (the state not the country), our engineers are actually architects. The roundabouts are so tiny, that they are just glorified round 4-way stops, totally useless. And on the larger ones, the main road is so congested by people following too closely to the car infront of them , that any off shoots STILL have to stop while 10 cars pass you at your "yeild" sign before you and the 10 cars behind you can even move.
19:13 That right there, is one of the primary reason we Americans hate roundabouts. Because you need to slow down, where as on overpasses and green stoplights you can maintain your speed. (among other reasons like the general public not understanding how they're meant to function)
So I did an interesting one way grid pattern that might actually be more cursed than this. It uses the same logic people use to justify the "statistical safety" of roundabouts and double diamond intersections in that it absolutely minimizes potential "intersection conflicts". Basically, it's an alternating grid of one way roads that enter each intersection facing each other and then has 2 one way exit roads leaving 90 degrees on either side... which lead into identical intersections just like it. Assuming you are using 2 lane 1 way roads for the entire grid, the only time that cars can get in each other's way is when they are changing lanes to make the next left or right hand turn. It's statistically the safest possible tile-able intersection and is made from the most annoying aspects of both interlocking roundabouts and one way grid roads because it's basically a grid of interlocking "square abouts".
Hello. American here. I had to pause the video for 5 full minutes trying to wrap my brain around how this all works. After all that time piecing it all together, I still prefer a nice grid myself. I have to drive through 2 back to back roundabouts to get to my in-laws house and my anxiety kicks in every time lol.
Here's a video idea: Get a procedural voronoi texture (like with Blender or whatever, something that can go forever so you don't have to worry about repetition), and try to build a city with the roads/streets/whatever-pathways restricted to be only on the edges of the voronoi cells, so you end up with all sorts of weird straight segments in various random lengths and angles, with a large majority of 3-way crossings. If nothing else, at least the map will look cool.
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As an American I can confirm my heart almost stopped when I saw that “Magic Roundabout in Swindon”
Try going through it on a pushbike.
I had to every day to get to college.
@@thobu6576 You're not meant to use the roundabouts on a pushbike, there are bike lanes all around it with crossing lights (well there are now, there might not have been when you were at college)
It's pretty simple, it's just like five roundabouts in a row with dual carriageway roads linking them, there are a couple more of them in the UK (I live a few miles from one in Colchester) and they work fairly well.
Yeah I'm British and I have to agree, it looks like utter chaos
@@ChuckFickens1972 there certainly weren't any cycle lanes through it when I was at college nearly 20 years ago.
11:46 Matt out here forgetting that most of Europe is right-hand driving AND using roundabouts lol
For people from the UK and the US these two countries are the only actual places in existence. Can't ask one of them to wrap their heads around other places existing.
@@goldminer754 of course we in the UK are aware of other countries existing. I'd assume most of our American cousins are too.
This! Literally, the world capital of roundabout is France (almost twice more roundabout per capita than the UK) and after the UK (2nd), it's Italy, Spain and Brazil, all right hand driving.
I was gonna say as a RHDer in the US… the uk is rhd and the us is lhd Matt 😅😅 that was a slip of the brain
@@rafidogyeah and france is over double the size so if you look at it for size the uk would have more roundabouts
As a German I have to stand by my American constituents and say that is the most confusing roundabout I have ever seen in my life
As another German, I second this.
Then come to Belgium and the Netherlands and use our turboroundabouts where we add light into the magic roundabout 😅
@@w.reincke4568They are not as confusing as this Swindon monstrosity 😁
got 2 lane roundabouts with traffic litght too... + 2 lanes of coming in and out. people are to stupid to just stay in their line and watcht the signs which explains easily what to do... @@w.reincke4568
Its more easier to navigate while on the road
Fun round-a-bout story for yah.
My Grandad was told 'Straight across here' and the legend just ran over the island.
It took 7 years for the tire tracks to properly go
He's since passed but the tire tracks were still there long after he died
The round-a-bouts never forget
Everlasting legacy
The round-a-bouts never forgive
That was the best explanation of the magic roundabout I've ever seen. I actually understand it now.
It really helps because in your version you can see grass in between the roads. The real one is all asphalt and much harder to see what's happening.
yes, and also the dragging of one way streets from point to point helps visualizing somehow I think
I feel like when a road needs to be explained multiple times before it makes sense, it's not a good road.
Dude! You did SUCH a good job explaining the Magic Roundabout to me, someone who has never heard of it! 👏🏻
@@g_oduofthenorth9618it isn't even that hard to understand lol, I've never driven in my life and I understand it
We alway wondered why the aliens were making crop circles. There were planning their city layouts.
Extraterrestrial would come to America just to implement a better road system then them without living there then the Americans can
@@eddieb270 I love the idea of aliens invading, seemingly just ripping apart all infrastructure, but then rebuilding it in a much better way and leaving
@@eddieb270 America has a great road system.
@@fakecubed great as in big yes great as in doesnt waste everyones time no
@@fakecubed great =/= good
I would love to see a "super roundabaut" wich consists of more magic roundabouts linked together.
RCE, please get building this.
Say this on every video until he sees it
@@CMDR_Hogbenhog I will
I want him to do it but even I don't know how i imagene it or how it could be built lol
hexagon bestagon roundabout bestabout spoke and wheel city
The magic roundabout otherwise known as the daily "Choose your own driving adventure" challenge. No two routes have to be the same
and the replayability is infinite! lol
@@dynad00d15 until you get your game over screen after a few decades of playtime
@@jc_art_ Your an order of magnitude less likely to die due to a collision on a magic roundabout than you are on the american monstrosity.
@@hanzzel6086 i dont see your point, i was referring to old age
@@jc_art_ Ahh, I misunderstood your point. 2 decades seems kinda short to be dying of old age though.
Edit: Ohhhh, I need my eyes checked.
Well, you just built Viseu here in Portugal. It's a relatively small city - about 100K people, but we have over 700 roundabouts here. We are known as "the city of roundabouts" 😆
I looked it up on Google maps and it's amazing
@@torfley hahahahah it truly is
@@AnaRaquelArts I found a square roundabout on google maps there
I'm an American and let me put it this way: if there's nothing but grass in the middle of the roundabout, it will also have tire tracks from people driving straight across.
So true.
Unless it is in the center of some major city. But yeah, pretty much like that here too
"If you do drive right hand drive, you probably dont know what a roundabout is"
The entirety of middle europe: "Are we a joke to you?!"
not just middle...
There are tens of thousands of roundabouts in the US. British people are just ignorant.
Also there are lots of roundabouts in America too.
I mean he is correct, if you do drive right hand drive, you PROBABLY don't know what a roundabout is.
Literally the same comment i just wanted to make
Remember folks, that roundabouts are the bestabouts! On a very unrelated note, I now need a barf bag.
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Yes
What are the other abouts?
Damm i wanted to comment that.
(I will steal it anyway)
@@Tizraltrianglabouts, squarabouts strongestshapabouts, lotsafem
11:49 You've convinced me. I'm gonna march on city hall and tell 'em RCE says this town needs some big round-a-butts!
You'll never see traffic again if its a full city redesign its hard to make roundabouts work to full efficiency with traffic lights in the area
im suprised you can make the magic roundabout so easily. Well done! I hereby grant you the title 'The Rotund Lord of Bestagon' (I saw the magic roundabout in a top ten video yesterday for the first time and was suprised when your vid popped in my feed, seeing as i watch you so much and this had always been here for months).
Today was my first day being an engineer at my work place. Took me six months to get into this department. So it was a great day and looking forward to more engineering tomorrow!
as someone that lives near Swindon nobody knows how to go around the magic roundabout unless its their commute
It always seems that if you don't know what your doing, you end up in a different place every time you take the same exit.
@@Degasi14 taking the same exit and being at different places anyway sounds like some wizard shit.
Not sure if accidental teleportation is a sign they're actually magic, or bad.
This reminds us that always level your land before making massive set of roundabouts.
Matt thinking there isn’t roundabouts in the US is always funny to me. There a whole street in my city where all intersections were destroyed and they replaced about 8 of them with roundabouts and it saves about 15 minutes driving down that road now.
thats just an exception there really arent many roundabouts in the us
I wish my city had roundabouts. There's this intersection where there's a bunch of traffic from many places, including a middle school. It's always so annoying, traffic gets backed up over the hill and, in rare but still scenarios I've been in, traffic gets backed up from the school TO THE SIDEWALK ON THE INTERSECTION. Istg if there was a roundabout there, most issues would be fixed. Luckily they're rebuilding the school in another plot, so traffic won't back up so much, but that plot is downtown. Interested to see how that works out.
In my city, I think there are MAYBE 4 roundabouts. In the whole city. I kind wish there were more cuz i quite like them, but i think most areas are too high traffic for them (4 lane or 6 lane roads going into roundabouts are not pretty)
Americans wouldn't understand how to use them because of the poor education system...
So they'd blast each other with guns when they get frustrated because of the second amendment...
Then they'd go bankrupt paying for their medical bills because of the ludicrous healthcare system...
NYC has 3 of them on the corners of Central Park lol
I like how, not even as a joke, Matt genuinely thinks it's fine to just create a canal full of shit. That's a pure engineer mindset right there.
Welcome to Los Angeles, CA where planning and zoning are seldom considered.
@@ConnanTheCivilized Worse: That IS the zoning. The US has unbelievably strict zoning regulations.
Imagine working your 9-to-5 in the industrial area next to that thing...
@@Krixwell cover it up.
@@Avruthlelbh Strict, but also incredibly retarded.
I'm from Denmark, and I know of the magic roundabout. My dad loves that thing. Not sure he's ever been on it though. You might find it interesting that there's only 1 architect drawn city in Denmark (at least to my knowledge) Kølvrå. It's designed to make pedestrian life easier, by only making T-crosses. This should apparently make it safer for kids to walk to school and keep cars semi slow. That's what I've been told at least.
I'm wondering how annoyed RCE will be once he finally finds out how much easier it is to use the continuous road tool to make roundabouts a lot easier.
If other game series videos are any indication, he won't learn about that for at least a solid year or so :P
I am in the US and I like roundabouts when they're necessary, my issue is people freak out in them. Go in, yield to other cars, go around. It is not hard, but other people make it so annoying. My chat in cities skylines often jokes about fixing traffic with roundabouts and I feel like this is what they really want from me xD
I live near 2 roundabouts and like them. 1 is basically useless (maybe just to ensure traffic stays slow?) as it's just in the middle of a 2 lane road. The other connects 5 roads together with technically enough room for a 6th that branches off the NE road just barely after the roundabout, all while having this thing that looks like it needs more room to do what it does! North end of Oviedo Blvd, FL for the curious.
I hope that by “yielding” you don’t mean you stop in the roundabout to let other cars enter
No, you yield before you enter a roundabout, once in you have priority....
@@zecuse "I live near 2 roundabouts" is such weird thing to see as a Dutchman. I live in a small town (50k-ish people) and in the square mile around me there are at least 4. There are probably a dozen littered about the entire town.
@@ricardoh.1575 Ya. America really doesn't like them. Honestly, I hate having to stop all the time and for as long as I have to at some of the stoplights I have to go through.
An architect would love this city, the art that those circles created is beautiful (Im an architecture student, and yes, i love this channel)
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I’d refuse to even go near that magic roundabout 😂
[Person drives on magic roudaboat]
TO BE CONTINUED----->
(It's a reference to the "to be continued" meme, in which the song used is called "Roundabout".)
@@Tripp-y9bomg is that a joke reference??
@@_yet_8457 it's a joke on a meme song
@@Tripp-y9b i meant jojo auto correct had other ideas
@@_yet_8457 no I've never seen jojo, I've just seen memes with the song used for moments before disaster
I have to correct you! I live in right side driving USA and we do have (some) roundabouts! I grew up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and next to my town was the town of Orleans, that had a roundabout we called the Rotary, and then at the bridges over the Cape Cod Canal, there were also roundabouts. And that's just where I grew up! I saw 3 of them! And be honest, I've been to London, and you got some 4 way intersections in town with a little bump of concrete in the middle about 4 inches across like a little dome in the pavement, and while TECHNICALLY you drive around it, it's only a token roundabout :)
Just a heads up... Roundabouts are actually becoming more common in America.
Where I live in Colorado almost every town within 100 miles has at least one roundabout.
My hometown of
America is adding them where they make sense. But they do not make sense in all places. Europe will always have more roundabouts per square mile because of population densities, how many people drive there, and length of travel.
“Police station so architects can’t get in”
*Built a city only an architect could love*
I genuinely cant understand why he made his mandatory-RUclips-channel-inside-joke just "architects are bad". Kinda lazy i think
@@jc_art_ Because an architect's dream is often an engineer's nightmare (mostly because of the math involved).
@@inventor121 but he doesnt do any engineering on his channel, so it seems pointless.
@@jc_art_ From what i've seen , there is a kind of rivalry between architects and engineers. In fact, I'm convinced matt is a real civil engineer because he hates architects
@@inventor121 The problem is more when the maths says it can't be done and the architect still ask you to find a solution.
the magic roundabout in swindon still needs a tad bit of more engineering though, it turned into chaos a few times
It's just too small. They should have appropriated more land for the project and encircled some properties.
@@eMorphized Wrong. They should have terminated one of those roads and put in a light like sane city developers would.
I'm an American Uber driver, and I LOVE roundabouts!
And yes, we go counter-clockwise, the CORRECT direction. I'd wager there are way more miles of right-hand roads in the world than left-hand, after all.
Jests are all in good fun, btw. 😊
I wouldn't mind trying my hand at that super roundabout, though. It would be wild driving a car sitting on the wrong side, and going the wrong way, but I bet I could do it... with some night practice when there's less traffic, hopefully! 😬
Swindon meets Milton Keynes meets Canberra meets the entirety of the Netherlands
imagine having to get your driver's license in this city
On the other hand: you could never run a red light and potentially lose it again
@@derAtze Not true, the silly geezer had a bunch of traffic lights with his roundabouts on the medium roads.
I don’t have to, I’m a learner and have driven on it, the secret is it’s actually not that bad
Well, at least you'll know how to navigate roundabouts.
I am an American and this video changed my mind
I used to always say "I love roundabouts" and "Roundabouts are my favorite to go around because there's no traffic"
Now I think that roundabouts suck. Truck drivers aren't making it anywhere on your roads, and there was a huge roundabout, where if you lived at the end of it, you have to drive all the way around just to get home.
They make sense only if there is a small enough amount of traffic, and there are enough intersections close together that a driver would have to stop many times. With more traffic or fewer intersections, they are worse. Roundabouts are also much more deadly for cyclists and pedestrians.
Ah. The Magic Roundabout. A great piece of *architecture* from Swindon.
It's giving Canberra, Australia. Known by Aussies for its roundabouts, and forgotten by foreigners as the capital.
I'm American and there are a ton of roundabouts where I live. However, when all the out of town people come in, they don't know what to do so they just stop in the middle. Or, some people aren't brave enough and sit there for ever!
From the USA and we do have roundabouts, even out in more rural towns... at least mine does, starting to build more too... and man, love a good roundabout. Much MUCH better than traffic lights usually!
The only downside to roundabouts in America are American drivers
The roundabouts in the us are slightly different, there’s a video by Evan Edinger explaining it
@@Tm-dn9ob shows it different? You yield in go right until you get to the road you need and turn out... only diff is right or left depending on side of road you drive.... yea there they also keep the middle free of anything for lorries but... I wouldn't say that warrants calling them diff....
@@christopherjunkins there’s also different angles of entry and priority’s and speed - I’m speaking from memory and different states have different rules so…
They only work in areas of high enough intersection density and low enough traffic density, and very little cyclist and pedestrian traffic. Used in the wrong place and they make things worse. Europeans naively assume that American infrastructure and population densities are similar to Europe, but it's a very different country and so what works is going to be different.
As a non American I am deeply offended by you assuming that we right hand drivers don't know what a roundabout is. We Germans take great pride in in our roundabouts.
And roads with no speed limits.
@@blankblankness2971 you mean certain sections of our highways
@@the_chaot Yes, that.
"how am I a tiny village with only one person?"
I could swear you've had this happen to you before. It's based on the exp. you gain, which can be increased by building structures and roads
One of the flaws of roundabouts is that you always have to slow down, yield and turn, even if you’re going straight. With low traffic in my town you can go from one side to the other at 40 mph without ever stopping or turning much, great on mpg, brakes and tire wear. Also at a stoplight you don’t need to yield and constantly try to slip into traffic, just wait til it turns green
Yeah, intersections have their place in engineering. He's just being comedic.
That is not a flaw, slower traffic is safer in a residential area. It is why roundabouts are a bad idea for a highway, but they are great for any city application.
@@CZProtton the main drag I’m talking about is all commercial not residential
@@capitalironic commercial as in factories and warehouses or as in shops and restaurants? Because shops and restaurants should be built walkable anyway, with a lot of foot traffic around, therefore slower vehicles are beneficial. That would require America to stop building huge parking lots everywhere, though.
@@CZProtton Slower traffic is safer for car traffic. But roundabouts are more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians.
4:27 that Eminem reference is even more relevant today.
Two trailer park girls go round the outside 😂
I like roundabouts.. but the Swindon roundabout gives me the heebie jeebies.
So you basically made a « *_Cities Slylines 2 : Welcome in France Edition_* ». Good job
In Canada we often have those cul de sac roundabout, often in low density residential areas with houses built around, quite convenient you don't have to U-turn 😂
Imagine U-turning in those long ass trucks.
my mom lives in one of those.. guests have 3 parking spots in the street in total. hahajah
Round de sac!
In Michigan (US), roundabouts are actually quite common, at least where I'm at and they're fun to drive through. They're a little intimidating at first, but usually very efficient
Yes, as an American I can confirm I was shocked at the amount of roundabouts and couldn’t stop screaming “GRIDS! GRIDS! GRIDS!”
Now i think RCE is secretly french, he love the roundcabout and the liberty units
Just a literal nightmare for pedestrians. :D
And cyclists. Roundabouts are the most dangerous roadways for cyclists.
As am American, I'm really coming round to roundabouts. 'They' have done a decent job deciding where we need new ones and the traffic has lessened a lot in those areas. I'm especially impressed when they do well as a means to get on the highway.
I enjoy the American style semitruck with the UK style semitrailer. Very Australian. Our single USA semitrailers are slightly longer, mostly with one less axle and either no side guardrails at all or flimsy ones that are just for deflecting wind instead of being crashworthy. People freak out and stop sometimes when they see US trailers hop the center aprons in roundabouts. Not ideal, but amusing!
Great job at recreating the 17th century London sewer system in a town that is simultaneously incredibly british, incredibly dutch and incredibly american.
I would actualyl love to watch an entire playtrough with the Hexagon layout tbh
pretty sure theres potential for a drinking game everytime Matt says "Roundabout"
I'd rather not die, lol.
@@torgranael smoke weed instead 🤣
A few weeks ago I thought that it would be interesting if someone would have made a video where every road was a roundabout and I’ve seen this and I was very excited to click on this video.
Cara also made a similar one earlier this year I think.
@@Notmyname1593 I’ll check it out.
I saw this comment and it looked interesting so I clicked on this comment and read it.
As an Englishman, I can confirm that this is 95% of our roads. We legit have roundabouts that only have two exits in some parts of the country... Could have just been a simple turn, but we decided to make it a circle instead
As a true American, I can confirm, we do have roundabouts in about 2 states, Massachusetts and Arizona. Every where else has covered bridges or dams.
With all the roundabouts you're more recreating Milton Keynes than you are Swindon
On his patreon series he created another city inspired by milton keynes
MK is such a weiiiiird place
i came here to say this 😂
That city actually looks beautiful. If Matt designed a city like this for real, I'd be moving there.
RCE has made the Magic Roundabout easier to understand than anyone else I've ever asked
In Cities Skylines 1 I built a city out of multiple concentric circles. The circles alternated which way round they went, and had a cross-shape of straight roads connecting the circles (including to each other). Then I set up buses - routes around each circle, and along the straight roads. Traffic was pretty chill.
11:52 i live in the Pacific Northwest and they LOVE roundabouts up here for being in the US. Theyre not everywhere but theyre mostly used to make people slow down in residential areas lol
YAY! Finally get to see the challenge I've wanted to see in Cities Skyline
roundabouts aren't super common in Canada but as soon as I took a moment to actually think about the magic roundabout I realized it actually makes a lot of sense. that being said, i would cry if i had to drive on it
It might have something to do with maintenance costs in Canada. Your weather tends to be harsher on your riads. Also, fewer bends with icy roads is wise
🎶 I'll be the roundabout. The words will make you out and out. I spend the day your way. 🎶
< To Be Continued |\|/
I'm glad i wasn't the only one who was thinking about that
There are many roundabouts in the US. They're becoming popular. The issue is that not many people know how to use them efficiently, and they can be rather dangerous. Where I live, speed isn't strongly enforced in the slower parts of town, so people tend to go too fast, and follow too close, making it near impossible to enter the roundabout, much less change lanes to reach your destination. It ends up clogging traffic.
All I can think about is how bad the tire wear situation will be when every car is always turning. Think Id open a tire rotation and alignment shop if I lived here.
Hexagons are the bestagons, anyone? 3:15
American here...I understand HOW that roundabout works...but looking at it makes my head hurt.😵💫
Me too I understand the use but I don’t like it
@@AndrewDavis-mj8rj why? Its faster, its safer, its easier. Its literally better in every way compared to a street light.
@@CZProtton They're talking about the magic roundabout, not roundabouts in general.
Is anyone gonna tell him that an "American" interstate highway interchange isn't the same as a city interchange? Or that the US has tons of roundabouts?
I don't know about tons, but we're getting there. Even saw one in Georgia once on an overpass.
There are about 9000 roundabouts in the us and in the uk there are about 25000 roundabouts in the uk 😬
I’ve dealt with 5 in California so far, been driving for 10 years 😂 I’m in SoCal. Only the fancy neighborhoods throw one in to confuse us. Outside of that I saw one in Arizona. All I know is, if I dealt with the Swindon one I would just burn my license.
@@millygd955 First of all... there are about 13,000 roundabouts in the US. That google search result that says 9,000 is from a year ago and isn't including all roundabouts. Second, we only had about 3,700 ten years ago. So... yeah, it's turning into a thing.
@@millygd955 The UK is a lot more dense than the US. When people are packed in with a ton of intersections, but the population isn't that high overall, roundabouts make a lot of sense. In a very low density country with the occasional very high population city, they make very little sense.
Just to inform yous, as a Geraman I can tell you, thart we know roundabouts very good. Actually the village I life in has a Roundabout as its centre. BUt I love your videos keep it up!
Driving in circles all the time will be an amazing experience. I can already see the potential to destroy the cars.
My dear engineer friend 😂 how many countrys have left Hand driving compared to right Hand?
64, according to google.
Matt is an AI Architect in disguise.
As an American, I'm terrified.
Mortified
Horrified
As a French, we do love our roundabouts. In the City of Nantes, you even have roundabout leading to another one, leading to a third one.
One of the city planners in the US city I live in recently developed a love of roundabouts. They're everywhere. Even on country roads that don't get properly plowed and salted in the winter. That one probably shouldn't be there, but they generally make sense.
do british people not realize america also has a bunch of roundabouts? they’re everywhere near me 😭
That can't possibly be true, otherwise you wouldn't be crying and you would have a huge smile on your face, spreading all the roundabout goodness 😄
day 13 of asking rce to play minecraft again
Yeeeah
Hi
Biblically accurate roundabouts. 👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️
AMERICANS! BE NOT AFRAID! WE ARE SAFE AND EASY TO NAVIGATE!
I was just starting to think this was an amazing idea when you brought up the concept that you're just technically in the middle of a roadway at all times so you could just get flattened in an instant
OMG I believe this may be the first Skylines video Matt made without even a mention of the strongest shape. He always finds a way to fit it in there.
The maximum like i got on a comment was 133 🙂
I hate these types of comments
🙂
133 is quite good
Yeaaaa
You must be an architect
Yeah, that's just Swindon.
And the magic roundabout is much less intimidating when you don't overthink it.
magic roundabout? terrifying to those who have never driven on one. normal roundabouts? they're fuckin everywhere in america (or at least where i am)
As a German I can say that I understand how this roundabout workes, u just have to switch left and right bc in germany we drive on right side of the road
Now that you done round abouts as an engineer dream, do the opposite with the American stop lights and making the layout in the best possible shapes, while seeing just how simple you can make a "complex" stoplight grid
Once you do that you can compare the two... Ofc you'll love the round about city, but this isn't thinking any different than an engineer,it's just more complex than roundabouts
I will never not be roasting Carmel, Indiana by saying this is just Carmel, Indiana. My dad INSISTED on finding a speedway in that town after a 3 hour drive to my surgeon's office and it was roundabout HELL. Every intersection was a roundabout or some abomination peanut roundabout. We got so lost
16:43 police station so architects don’t get in 😂
I, an American, grew up driving through the roundabout in the next town over. Though it was more of a trapezoid shape, and about an acre in size, and sometimes the oncoming lane had right of way giving the yield to drivers on the loop. Also, we call them traffic circles.
"I think you're in roundabout range, you may get destroyed" - Real Civil Engineer, 2023
The Swindon Magic Roundabout awards list on Wikipedia:
-In 2005, it was voted the worst roundabout in a survey of the general public by a UK insurance company.
-In September 2007 it was named as one of the world's worst junctions by a UK motoring magazine.
-In December 2007, BBC News reported a survey identifying The Magic Roundabout as one of the "10 Scariest Junctions in the United Kingdom".
-In 2009, it was voted the fourth-scariest junction in Britain, according to a poll of 3,225 UK drivers.
19:30 you can see just a pile up of traffic on his road of roundabouts as he’s talking about how good the traffic is 🤣
Those might be people parked on the road
If you like roundabout cities, check out Canberra in Australia! They even have a hexagonal roundabout around a round roundabout...
Roundabouts are fine, but they get congested during rush hour. Some cities have time of day directional lane changes for asymmetrical traffic patterns. I.e. 3 of 4 lanes open toward downtown in the morning, and 3 of 4 lanes open heading out of the city for evening rush hour.
They get really bad any time there is a lot of traffic, or the traffic is unbalanced between entries. They're also murder if you have cyclists and pedestrians.
Roundabouts are the best; absolutely no stopsigns. You can design an ENTIRE CITY without stop signs thanks to roundabouts.
My city is designed this way
As an American in Georgia (the state not the country), our engineers are actually architects. The roundabouts are so tiny, that they are just glorified round 4-way stops, totally useless. And on the larger ones, the main road is so congested by people following too closely to the car infront of them , that any off shoots STILL have to stop while 10 cars pass you at your "yeild" sign before you and the 10 cars behind you can even move.
19:13 That right there, is one of the primary reason we Americans hate roundabouts. Because you need to slow down, where as on overpasses and green stoplights you can maintain your speed. (among other reasons like the general public not understanding how they're meant to function)
19:39 love seeing the insanely long line on the roundabouts lol
So I did an interesting one way grid pattern that might actually be more cursed than this. It uses the same logic people use to justify the "statistical safety" of roundabouts and double diamond intersections in that it absolutely minimizes potential "intersection conflicts". Basically, it's an alternating grid of one way roads that enter each intersection facing each other and then has 2 one way exit roads leaving 90 degrees on either side... which lead into identical intersections just like it. Assuming you are using 2 lane 1 way roads for the entire grid, the only time that cars can get in each other's way is when they are changing lanes to make the next left or right hand turn. It's statistically the safest possible tile-able intersection and is made from the most annoying aspects of both interlocking roundabouts and one way grid roads because it's basically a grid of interlocking "square abouts".
Hello. American here. I had to pause the video for 5 full minutes trying to wrap my brain around how this all works. After all that time piecing it all together, I still prefer a nice grid myself. I have to drive through 2 back to back roundabouts to get to my in-laws house and my anxiety kicks in every time lol.
Here's a video idea: Get a procedural voronoi texture (like with Blender or whatever, something that can go forever so you don't have to worry about repetition), and try to build a city with the roads/streets/whatever-pathways restricted to be only on the edges of the voronoi cells, so you end up with all sorts of weird straight segments in various random lengths and angles, with a large majority of 3-way crossings. If nothing else, at least the map will look cool.