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I'm at University at the moment (career change at 28, I do like a challenge) and the City I study in has one of the worst one way systems ever designed. That said, the drivers are some of the worst I've come across.
With the one way system as it is to get from University to the motorway there is a section of road in which the traffic flows in the same shape as a U bend - You drive over the river, turn left, then right, right again, then finally left.
Confused? I certainly was the first time I used it.
So the traffic over the river is a single lane. When you turn left the first time the road splits into three lanes, for simplicities sake I shall call these 1, 2 and 3.
Lane 1 goes straight on on and is of no interest to us.
Lanes 2 and 3 turn right - this road then splits into 4 lanes - a, b, c and d.
Lane 2 becomes a and 3 becomes b - you can tell this by what is painted on the road and the signs adorning the streets.
Unfortunately it appears that huge numbers of people in this City don't read and use lane 2 to gain access to lane b - which, because I'm using the road correctly is where I'm at. I've lost count of the number of people who've tried to turn me into a bumper ornament and am getting more than slightly annoyed with it!
Oh well, only one more year of Uni left!
With the one way system as it is to get from University to the motorway there is a section of road in which the traffic flows in the same shape as a U bend - You drive over the river, turn left, then right, right again, then finally left.
Confused? I certainly was the first time I used it.
So the traffic over the river is a single lane. When you turn left the first time the road splits into three lanes, for simplicities sake I shall call these 1, 2 and 3.
Lane 1 goes straight on on and is of no interest to us.
Lanes 2 and 3 turn right - this road then splits into 4 lanes - a, b, c and d.
Lane 2 becomes a and 3 becomes b - you can tell this by what is painted on the road and the signs adorning the streets.
Unfortunately it appears that huge numbers of people in this City don't read and use lane 2 to gain access to lane b - which, because I'm using the road correctly is where I'm at. I've lost count of the number of people who've tried to turn me into a bumper ornament and am getting more than slightly annoyed with it!
Oh well, only one more year of Uni left!
Seriously, some architects need to be dragged out and publicly shamed.
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