roundabout
Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
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(and they've created a bona fide absolute traffic nightmare at the Pergola roundabout next to the De Wand tram stop as a side-effect, so well done there)
1 Car causing a gridlock for more than a dozen vehicles is insanity to me, my city skylines brain is telling me this should have been a roundabout
Now Playing on https://www.ProgRock.com Out of the Roundabout [1975: Chocolate Kings] by PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) #progrock
Oh for goodness sake! Wait until they hear about Pork Pie Roundabout!
Maybe the full application will include some way of crossing the dual carriageway and continuing across the roundabout and actually link to the rest of the cycle network.
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Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
“🤔 🇵🇸 Local sources report that occupation quadcopters are intermittently firing at targets near the Abu Hamid roundabout, in eastern Khan Yunis, #Gaza. Several wounded and some casualties have been confirmed.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Annual flower planting begins at Rockford’s Auburn Street roundabout”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Thanks for this. Too many accidents at that roundabout already though!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“'Roundabout, you're supposed to smile!'”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
“(and they've created a bona fide absolute traffic nightmare at the Pergola roundabout next to the De Wand tram stop as a side-effect, so well done there)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“1 Car causing a gridlock for more than a dozen vehicles is insanity to me, my city skylines brain is telling me this should have been a roundabout”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Now Playing on https://www.ProgRock.com Out of the Roundabout [1975: Chocolate Kings] by PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) #progrock”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Oh for goodness sake! Wait until they hear about Pork Pie Roundabout!”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Maybe the full application will include some way of crossing the dual carriageway and continuing across the roundabout and actually link to the rest of the cycle network.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(chiefly, UK, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and, sometimes, US, especially New England) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
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