What is a Spiral Roundabout and how to use them in the UK?

What started as a lesson on spiral roundabouts became essentially a 5 minute complaint to the council about how dumb their roundabout is 😂😂

Brilliantly explained. This is exactly what makes our job as Driving Instructors, that much harder. The idiots who designed these spiral roundabouts must have smoked something dodgy that day.

It sometimes looks like the roundabout designer accidentally submitted their child's latest spirograph drawing for these 🤯 but this is the best explanation I have seen on them, thank you.

I hate spiral roundabouts, I have been driving a week and have messed up on about 3 so far, so it’s very validating to hear you explain how chaotic they in fact are 😂

I'd rather not get to my destination than go on this roundabout.

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Thank you so much for this vid. I’ve been driving for 25 years. I don’t use this roundabout very often, but this particular route on this particular roundabout has me scratching my head every time. No one knows which lane they should be in. I thought I must be doing something wrong but now you’ve explained why I can never seem to get into lane 2 just before the m11 north turnoff it makes sense! Great explanation!

I just want to thank you so much for your videos. I have just passed my driving test first time with 1 minor and feel as though you were a huge part of my success!! Through your channel I gained so much valuable insight which reenforced what I was learning alongside my instructor. This ultimately gave me a confidence boost resulting in me going into my test excited as opposed to nervous. Hence, today I begin the chapter in life of me as a driver. Cheers Richard, I'll forever be grateful :)

Thank you so much for making these videos! You have helped me a million times better than my driving instructor 😂🙌🏻

Just found your channel today; thanks for all the cool videos you make! :) It baffles me why some drivers are not willing to show compassion to new road users since everyone was a novice driver once...we all have to start somewhere!

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Multilane roundabouts are the one thing that still makes me nervous when driving. I think the main thing that confuses me is how the 1st and 2nd lanes are so inconsistent: sometimes 1st is left only, other times straight as well, and while most of the time 2nd lane is straight only, it's sometimes also able to turn left into a 2nd lane on the exit at bigger ones. This makes it difficult to predict how you and others are meant to behave until you're already moving round with not much time to react. I thank you for making it clear from this video that the 'spiral' principle (of the leftmost lane exiting, with a new rightmost lane emerging from the centre) is something that can't be relied on, and I shouldn't assume that it will be the case when I enter. In fact in the examples you showed, parts of the very same roundabout are spiralling, and other parts aren't! Ideally all the roundabouts would abide by the same rules, or at least have those hatched markings that show you which lane leads to which, but as they don't, keeping cautious only moving left if you're 100% certain it's safe to do so seems to the mindset to have?

I passed my test 4 weeks ago and i work in Wolverhampton and used this technique for the ring roads there. A much smaller scale but i definitely recommend it.

Thankyou so much for this video!! I can't tell u how much i appreciate this!! I am an experienced driver & i'm going to give my part 2 test soon on my training to become an instructor journey... i encounter spiral roundabouts quite often & i'm always becoming confused with the lane markings, i know this is my weak point & i want to correct it before my test. This video has done exactly that for me!! Thankyou ever so muchh!!

I just passed my test this week. The first horrific roundabout in this video is one I have to use every day. I was on it yesterday and almost ended up kn the motorway (which I've never done before). It was slightly stressful so I came on here to brush up on larger roundabouts. Lo and behold, it's a video about the same roundabout!

I passed my test in the first attempt in Dun Laoghaire. Watching and following your videos along with a few other channels here really helped me along the journey.

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Thank you for a very helpful video. A journey with no pre-planning could be a recipe for disaster, especially as you get older and your reactions slow down.

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