1978: Ruislip ROUNDABOUT Is BAFFLING | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive 

They kept the roundabout there for years, well into the late '90s. Used to be called the "double yolker" roundabout.

Just a single roundabout now, fact fans. Disappointingly, nobody mispronounced 'Ruislip' but a nice appearance by EL Wisty as the driving instructor.

I can't believe they didn't explain how a roundabout works to her, feel bad for her lol

Love the nosey neighbour with the fake window shutters which were popular back then. Also this roundabout is child's play compared to the magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead :)

Haha like magic roundabout, the nosey neighbour looking out of the window

Roind and roind the roindaboit.

Blimey, It's a bit posh in Ruislip in the 70s. Nice area back then. I wonder what it turned out to be now 2022?

Who knows of the famous magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead? A totally fantastic idea that is so cheap to make and maintain, does not depend upon power and cannot be broken. The two previous layouts of that junction were a total nightmare!

Wow Diane Harron was something else. Red haired women certainly have an allure.

Diane Harron walked so that Catherine Tate could run

I didn't see the complication with that roundabout. Just give way to those coming from your right and then turn off on the direction you need, she made it more complicated than it was.

‘Roundabout Experiment Ahead’ probably means roundabout experiment ahead. 😂

Never heard the Irish are bad drivers thing but I was born in 92

Go to the Kinsale road roundabout in Cork Ireland. It's a double multilane roundabout with traffic lights for good measure😆

Morris Marina RWJ464R died in 1986.

"so much traffic" Lol if only she knew what was coming

4:17 it actually makes sense and would be a good idea if people were taught.

If the driving instructor is confused 🤷‍♀️god help us

I lived off this road on kings college, wrote my first car off on that round about to a speeding cab 😩

You couldn't drive around in circles on the same roundabout for minutes on end in a Marina nowadays without triggering car horns on other cars.

I remember that double roundabout set up. I understand the Council ended up removing it and replacing it with a conventional single roundabout because there were more accidents, particularly at off peak times in the evenings and at night.

As usual BBC, superb. I hope your execs look at this content knowing full well what they have lost and what they need.

She's really cool, even with the Morris Marina

Legend has it she still going round that roundabout today

There's one of these in Chipping Norton!

I live 1 house off the corner, Mum is still there. Trying to work out where the high up shots came from, I guess our next door neighbour. Must ask her. To be fair it was put in to try to stop lots of collisions, we always had a blanket available for casualties (to keep them warm not to cover them up). I think the adverse comments caused the council to remove it rather than it not working. There is still a similar roundabout (s) in SE4.

"How can she not know how to do it" this is a TV presenter bit guys, I think she probably knows😂

Ah the nostalgia!

"Look kids, Big Ben!"

Miss u too

It is rumored that this was a suggestion from the Body Shop Association 🙂

Out of all of the drivers using the roundabout, she's the only one 'confused' about it.

Thank goodness it's an ordinary roundabout again. 51°34'41"N 0°24'59"W

Oh well, since other folks are reflecting on the great roundabouts in their local area, I thought I'd share my own memories of a local roundabout, the largest in the region. Up until the mid-1950's, we had trams go through our area, but were replaced with diesel engine buses, which had to struggle through town with the rest of the traffic. In the middle of a large intersection, Council decided to place a large, concrete roundabout. Come the 90's, and with people becoming more environmentally conscious (-speaking of conscious, I hope you haven't passed out yet-), Council planted large, native trees in the middle of the roundabout, that drivers had trouble driving around. Having many exits into small streets, with the concrete/tree laden roundabout as a focal point, "The 9 Ways" as it was affectionately known (by Government) became very dangerous. Local people dubbed it, "The 9 Ways to Die". The thing became so dangerous, Council removed the native tree garden, returning it to it's former round concrete slab appearance. Several years ago, Government decided to return trams to the area, and dug up "The 9 Ways". Now it has traffic lights installed, and never has any car accidents. Councils..

There was a double donut like this in Dunstable. It was detested.

Ah Diane 'Daredevil' Harron. Its a coincidence but in Ireland in the 1990s and 2000s there were traffic light controlled roundabouts at many intersections of the normal roads with the expanding motorway network. By the mid 2010's they seem to be adoping the 'spaghetti junction' model for such intersections. to replace the traffic light controlled roundabouts. I wonder where they got the idea from?

I love the first line: 'they say the Irish are bad drivers...'

I like her. She looks like Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll.

"The Irish are bad drivers" lol. Can't say that these days!

When something simple for some reason becomes very difficult ... ROUNDABOUTS.

God knows what she'd make of the Armley Gyratory in rush hour!

That's easy. Magic roundabout in Swindon had five

You should try the magic roundabout in Swindon

Morris Marina... ;-)

Is this peculiar double roundabout still there?

A miniature version of the Scilly Isles roundabout. We did it properly in Surbiton. Or Esher. Or Hampton Court. Or Claygate. Or Hinchley Wood

Never heard of this lady, i must confess we used to watch Crossroads on the other side , not the best thing to confess i know.

wow 0:03 wouldn't🤣🤣🤣 get past the police these days

Not very fun fact: This was the junction where a small girl was killed by a drunk driver

Someone tell her that ‘right of way’ doesn’t exist for a start.

Haha.. This is every person that comes across the Magic Roundabout in Swindon nowadays 😂

yes, of course, have two roundabouts where one would suffice

There's no driver worse than a New Zealand driver

My ambitions to pass my driving test died at #Broadwater roundabout several times. At least I didn't.

They say the Irish are bad drivers

We have something similar close to where I live, it's on the junction of the Broadway and the Birmingham road in Walsall. Years ago it was a normal roundabout without any problems, then some moron must have had the stupid idea to change it to a double roundabout , confusing to anyone who hasn't seen it before, and totally pointless, even the sat nav can't get it right.

Ebet never coat of arms yootoo

Is she Irish so?

she's making it worse.

It was introduced because there were high volumes of north to east and south to west traffic. This arrangement allowed them to pass without conflict - unless you want to insult the Irish and stereotype and ridicule a 1970's 'woman driver' by deliberately and repeatedly making unnecessary turns around both roundabouts or put her at risk by standing in the middle of an overunnable island in the name of 'humour'. I am sure it was amusing to someone back then. Bear with while I stitch my sides back together.

I'm in the US and they're making these here now. I don't understand and these are horrible.

0:25 'Ryndabyte' experiment, wonder what that means? 😬

Kind of reassuring to know that idiotic, intelligence insulting news items such as this were also around when I was a child.

The Irish are bad drivers! 😯🤣🤣🤣

Know it even in the 70's women couldn't drive 🤣

It doesn't seem difficult to me, but i also don't see the point of it , totally stupid really.

Russian Doll.

well starting off with a racist comment about Irish drivers, is not a good start. And then she proceeded to act like an idiot going round and round......

Had to be women driver 😋 no harm meant

Well it wouldn't baffle me, then again I am a man.

Two tidy boilers there 😂