00:00Behind me is the third Dutch style roundabout in the UK in Chichester, West Sussex.
00:04Now whilst this roundabout has just finished there's a lot of controversy surrounding it.
00:08This is due to the fact that cyclists and pedestrians take priority and from entering
00:13and exiting the roundabout there's zebra crossings that vehicles need to stop for
00:16and because of all of that we decided to speak to some of the public to see what their thoughts are.
00:21I've always cycled, I do drive but I turned to now I'm retired I've got a bus pass too so
00:25I live in Fishbourne so I cycle into the town and get a bus from there usually if I want to go
00:31further afield. Yeah this would work it'd be very good it's just that a lot of motorists don't know
00:38this or the zebra crossing sort of bit. At the moment I'm getting off and walking across the
00:44zebra crossings you know. My name's John Henry Bowden, I live in West Broyle. We moved here in
00:502015 so I've been cycling to and fro across this junction for 10 years.
00:58I think this new arrangement is simply marvellous frankly I think it's very sensible. When it was
01:03under consideration as a way of the developers of Minerva Heights mitigating the traffic on this
01:09roundabout I happened to be a councillor for Chichester West so I was on the consultation
01:15group that considered various different options for this junction under the advice of the traffic
01:22engineers and we considered various solutions and when they came up with this solution as
01:28they measured very carefully in order to see whether it was possible to fit it in
01:33and came to conclusion it was. I think nearly all it was almost unanimous on the consultative group
01:40that this was the thing that would make it safer and in particular would encourage people to use
01:46their bikes and their feet rather than driving across this junction the whole time. My name is
01:53Karen and I've lived in Celsius since 1975. I like this I think it's much better than it used to be
01:59it used to be very difficult crossing the roads and people would always be crossing right at the
02:04edge instead of going up to the pelican crossing and I think actually this is quite nice. I like
02:08the fact that you've got this bit of ground between you and the cars so you're safer on here
02:15than you would be going down the road. I find it a lot easier this way and cars seem to slow down
02:22rather than going zooming around which they used to do and because there's not so much room you
02:28don't get two cars zooming around at the same time. Let us know what you're thinking about this new
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