Worst junctions

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:08 am

I'll start the ball off rolling with this abomination from Edinburgh, discovered while looking around the giant poo to the south-west...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en ... 02197&z=19

Post by **Welly** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:28 am

That's not the sort of junction you want to find when your already lost

mav · Post by **mav** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:02 pm

wonder how many lost drivers have had an accident at this junction?

V6Exec · Post by **V6Exec** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:29 pm

Try this one in Birmingham.

Special features - busy road, lots of HGVs and no traffic lights.

574lk3r · Post by **574lk3r** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:04 pm

this one in pompey (portsmouth) is a nightmare..
arrrgghhhh

it used to be a roundabout, but for some ungodly reason the powers that be decided this would be a better idea!..

Post by **steve_earwig** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:35 pm

There's ones like that in Yankland (they're not hot on roundabouts), 5 lanes wide, wrong side of the road... "hold on, where the f**k am I going??!"

574lk3r · Post by **574lk3r** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:22 pm

steve_earwig wrote:5 lanes wide, wrong side of the road... "hold on, where the f**k am I going??!"

lol yeah and ive done that a couple of times on that junction.
i hate it.

Post by **steve_earwig** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 6:25 pm

Dizzy

PugOFwar · Post by **PugOFwar** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 10:58 pm

steve_earwig wrote:Dizzy

lmao! My friend at work told me about something like that... 5 mini roundabouts around a big roundabout.. How stupid is that!!!

V6Exec · Post by **V6Exec** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 12:46 am

PugOFwar wrote:
steve_earwig wrote:Dizzy
lmao! My friend at work told me about something like that... 5 mini roundabouts around a big roundabout.. How stupid is that!!!

There is of course this one!

Driven both this one and Swindon's

STALLED · Post by **STALLED** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:59 am

Not much of a fan of this one:

M4 Motorway (No not the one in Manchester) - i used to drive this on the way to work. The thing is that there is a offramp and its usually a busy intersection at peak times, the thing is that the traffic will bank up along the exit and then back onto the motorway. You get people driving along there at full pelt and not realizing that you have to come to a stop rather quickly! There has been a few bad rear enders there!

The Northern Road - M4 offramp!

STALLED · Post by **STALLED** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:08 am

Just to make you all jealous

This one would have to be my favourite. It's the run up off the Cahill Expressway which you use to get out of the northern part of the CBD or if you want to use the harbour bridge after comming out of the Eastern Distributor! Drive through it every day on the way back from uni.

Tis good fun - 270 degrees of cornering. The 406 kinda leaves alot of cars behind through there - oh and you probably get one of the best views in the world once you come out the top of it!

"The Corkscrew"

Post by **steve_earwig** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:50 am

Reminded me a bit of this, which is the road in and out of Dover fairy terminal from the A2. The road in is long, sweeping and not really where you'd want the brakes to fail on your artic. Note the "oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" run-off gravel bed.

Post by **steve_earwig** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:00 am

Look closely at this, which is just round the corner from where I used to live. What's wrong with that? A seemingly inoccuous little junction - come down Burford Street and pull out straight onto the Dinant Link Road in your very own lane. But you'd be surprised at the amount of old farts I've followed down there who suddenly find it a good excuse to test out my ABS...

mjb · Post by **mjb** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:55 am

STALLED wrote:Just to make you all jealous
...
270 degrees of cornering.

http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=e ... &z=17&om=1

I did this every day - note it's actually the same scale, just the radius is a lot bigger. The limit of grip is about 84 in the dry, 60-65 in the wet with plenty of room to oversteer a FWD estate without hitting anything. Be aware the corner gets sharper at its southern-most point... Not that I've "experimented" much on this bend

It's funny to see the shiny BMWs and Mercs twitching and backing off as they try to keep up with a 406 banger