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I take back every comment I made about the Roundabout yesterday.

This morning I decided to test out the new lights and brave going via the motorway to work. I got to work approx 20-30 minutes earlier. I couldn't believe it and nor could my colleagues :D. I was the only one waiting at the lights when I got to the roundabout coming from the motorway. It was well worth waiting the ten years it took them to finish it. Absolutely made up :D:D.

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I take it is's all done then down there?
i remember when it was mad round there!!

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What is it like coming from tesco and going down Whitebirk Drive towards PCWorld? I can't believe they have screwed up the little roundabout with a bus lane.

Can you still get off the little roundabout to go to the Range or have they closed that exit?

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Maybe they might start sorting out the next junction now then at Shadsworth, although that one was clear going off the westbound lane this morning, as usual the eastbound slip road was backed up on to the motorway.

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Yes you can still get in the range from the roundabout. The bus lane has broken white lines for you to cross over at the entrance to the range

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I thought they were doing that when they were doing the road works
That is one of the most dangerous things I have seen. The designer of that should be shot. What are you supposed to do if there is a couple of buses on your inside? Stop on the roundabout and wait until they have gone. You cannot drive in the bus lane so how are you supposed to use that exit.

Also why have they removed the continuous lane that went from the bottom roundabout to the top and left down Whitebirk Drive? That should have been extended all the way down to the bottom roundabout as a third lane. I wonder if the lights will stop traffic queuing around the bottom roundabout at peak times?

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i live very near that 'roundabout' i was quite impressed yesterday when we came off it AND ITS NOT A ROUNDABOUT ANYMORE its a RINGROAD ;)

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Talking of road junctions, the only time I haven't had problems at Church traffic lights was when they weren't working:D

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No it is a roundabout. They like to pretend they have built a ring road around Blackburn, the roundabout is just part of it.

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shut up moron, you seen it recently? it IS a ringroad now

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I don't think so. It has signs above the lanes telling you which lane you need for the ring road,which is down Whitebirk drive. All that messing about on Preston New road, Montegue Street, around Asda and B&Q is there idea of making a ring road around Blackburn.


They should fill the middle up with petrol and set fire to it :D

Then Blackburn would have something that most of its residents has got ;)

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SEE it IS a RINGROAD

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Are you sure it is not a motorway, some of the signs above it say M65 :p

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dont get clever matey

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Don't get upset just because I can :p

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meet you at whitebirk RINGROAD in half an hour, and i'll fetch a spade cos i'm gonna bury you in the centre of it :D

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Its too cold for outdoor fun today :eek:

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:rolleyes: fool

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No this is fine too I work across road from Merc garage, next door to new Police Station.. i come back that way at dinner and use most exits on the roundabout throughout the day and not had one problem all day :D:D:D:D:D:D this is the happiest day ever Lol

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Let's just bloody call it a Ring Road/Roundabout.. does it really matter, it's not a BIG issue really.

Anyway you just have to make sure your in the correct lane :o

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:rolleyes: we where joking

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Are Blackburn w Darwen not going to close part of the bottom roundabout for regeneration work in the near future, sure it was posted in the LET - public notices (last week I think)
Is there not a patch of land on the right of the slip road to The Range, where Davies's Pet Foods used to be? (being kind with the name there)

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whats the difference between a ringroad and a roundabout then?

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I agree! As with Dill Hall traffic lights!

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Well, you see its quite simple really - some people may consider them to be largely the same, the fact is there is a big difference. You see, a ring road is a road that you drive along that goes round something, in a roundabout sort of fashion. This should not be confused with a roundabout which is a road that you go round which serves only to take you round something whilst a ring road is a road that is designed for you to go round in order to perhaps get round something.

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ringroads have traffic lights, simple as that :D

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Ah yes, Mike, but a ring road is not necessarily in a ring ..depends on the geography of a town. Can also have many roundabouts on a ring road. A roundabout is only placed at a busy junction to aid traffic to get to their destination, whether on the ring road or crossing over main thoroughfare ... :D

The combination of roundabout with traffic lights is now ideal for this busy junction .. been through today and a piece of cake.

Roundabouts are Ok, but safety traffic management has to be considered at all times as opposed to flow of traffic. Roundabouts are always more accident prone than traffic lights, because it is dependent on human judgement, not like traffic lights when you stop at a command. Think the mixture at Whitebirk is excellent.

Someone suggested a roundabout at the Hare and Hounds in Clayton, but this would not work for reasons above. Safety will always overide traffic flow.

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