[DrBazza]

Try driving in England, rural or otherwise, and you'll see our current trend of adding traffic lights to roundabouts.

If you think roundabouts slow you down (they don't really), just wait until non-rush hour at one of these "roundabouts" when you're the only car waiting on several sets of red lights, or during rush hour when the lights have failed and it's totally gridlocked where traffic simply cannot pass.

[ndsipa_pomu]

To be fair, most of the gridlocked traffic is caused by drivers not understanding that they shouldn't enter a yellow box junction until their exit is clear and similarly, they shouldn't be nosing out onto a roundabout when their lane is already full - that's what tends to cause the issues.

[DrBazza]

True. It's in the Highway Code. Then again, so is 'move quickly past the vehicle you are overtaking, once you have started to overtake. Allow plenty of room. Move back to the left as soon as you can but do not cut in'. But you wouldn't know it driving on UK motorways.

[ndsipa_pomu]

There's a special ring of hell reserved for drivers that stay in the middle lane.