00:00Hi, I'm Terry Truman. I've been a driving instructor in Swindon for 10 years.
00:04I should think it's confusing to people who don't live in Swindon.
00:08For most people who live in Swindon, it becomes a part of life.
00:13It's a unique reindebate. There isn't another one like it.
00:17But what it is, is just a few mini reindebates with a lamp post in the middle.
00:24The lamp post in the middle is not a reindebate,
00:27and it actually goes the opposite way around to what you would normally go.
00:32But when you come up to the mini reindebates,
00:34as you can see they're very well marked at the moment.
00:37When you come up to it, you've got a choice.
00:39You can either go left or you can go right.
00:42And that leads you on to another one where you can go left or you can go right.
00:47And every now and then you'll get an exit with your signposts which you turn left onto.
00:54So if you go right, you'll just go back around into the magic reindebate.
00:57But at a certain stage you turn left and you will come off either head to the motorway
01:03or into town, or into town a couple of times, or around to the football club.
01:07The best way to navigate in the first place is just to use it like a big reindebate.
01:12And that can go around the whole of the outside of it and come off at the exits.
01:17And then you just come up to the and turn right and then left at the exit that you want to.
01:23After that it's just easy to come and take the second exit.
01:28So at the first mini-reindebate you've actually got to go right
01:32and the second mini-reindebate you actually go left.
01:34It does get a bit of used to.
01:36People from outside of Swindon probably find it daunting and they would.
01:42And they do on a regular basis.
01:44They come round the middle one the wrong way and then head into traffic.
01:49If they were to remove it or replace it with one big roundabout or a load of lights.
01:54It'd be chaos, it'd be chaos.
01:55The amount of traffic, even now it's quite quiet as you can see.
01:58This is gridlocked at certain times.
02:01And if it was just a normal reindebate with all the wasted space in the middle,
02:06which most reindebates are, there's only two or three lanes most reindebates,
02:10mainly outside, allowing traffic to go through the middle actually takes some of it away.
02:17But the important thing, as I say to my students,
02:20it's like any other reindebate.
02:22When you approach it you've got to give way to the right.
02:25These being mini-reindebates and on the Magic Reindebate there's only two.
02:30You can either go left or right.
02:32It's only a choice of two so it isn't that difficult.
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