A New Approach to the Roundabout - The "Pinwheel" (Turbo Roundabout Variant)

[@YUMBL]

Here is a vanilla optimized version for use in your cities! It’s reversed from the version in the video. Safer for right hand traffic ;) steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2646965873

[@j.munday7913]

Maybe you should take a second look at the workshop roundabout. Those are def vanilla roads and you can place most modded intersections. This would just need to be on a flat area I think for it to work in vanilla.

[@YUMBL]

@Sievert Schreiber The workshop asset is created with vanilla roads. Are you ok?

[@FreekyMage]

@@madkuya9862 he's not saying it's vanilla. It's vanilla optimized, meaning it's not dependent on anything but the vanilla game.

[@YUMBL]

Its made from vanilla networks. Is everyone insane? Can I not put a free asset made of vanilla roads on the internet?

[@pubdigitalix]

@@YUMBL I love your work. Really balance between narrative and content. Some idea suggestion for a video o series about roads. You make a few very useful in the past but with some many assets creators i thinks it deserves an entire series (shortvideos maybe). Thanks a lot for all your work. Cheers from Argentina.

[@Checkedbox]

The roundabout guidelines I have read explicitly disincentivize making the entrance and exit angles too smooth to promote more caucious driving instead of maintaining speed. Of course this is CS so if flow is all that matters, with perfect drivers this may be far better. Not to take away from the aesthetics or effort that went into creating this design, I just think it's something to consider.

[@bman6039]

Or vehicles that can phase through each other without any consequences.

[@PhoenixWwrong]

I thought the point of roundabout is for speed? If the angles aren't smooth, is it any better than 4-way stopped sign or traffic lights?

[@Checkedbox]

@@PhoenixWwrong they reduce conflict points to make them safer. They also help achieve more continuous flow, and commonly higher throughput as a result. But you don't need drivers to be moving fast to achieve that. In fact if drivers were moving faster, it would likely lose any safety benefit and probably cause more backups as a result.

[@YUMBL]

Speed? 🤣

[@alohatigers1199]

@@Checkedbox Don’t blame intersection. Blame bad drivers. Majority of crashes occur due to bad driving. It’s like the moment they get their license, they go back to their bad habits.

[@ItsIdaho]

The sudden satisfaction when he ever so slightly moved the 90 degree turns was unbelievable. I am definitely gonna have to use it, looks so mesmerizing.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

That was nice! :-)

[@lilbill88]

Biffa!! I love your channel. I hope to see this one in a future video 😁

[@YUMBL]

Thanks a bunch! :)

[@dirkdieters5773]

In before 5 of these show up in New Tealand.

[@stevehudson1111]

Says the acknowledged LOVER of roundabouts! hehehehehe. Love ya Biffa

[@shashipancholi]

high praise indeed

[@AnryRyu]

Oh boy, you know you are too deep into Cities: Skylines when you get exicted about a great roundabout design! Can you upload this to the workshop? I'll try to make my own template this evening :)

[@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat]

I know I'm too deep. 😂

[@GenetMJF]

I have been way too obsessed with the game. When you lay on bed bf sleeping and think about your metro system and how you should fix it.

[@navaskyy7764]

@@GenetMJF if only our real life officials cared that much

[@GenetMJF]

@@navaskyy7764 haha :,D

[@RyuuOujiXS]

Are you joking or stupid? This is a bad design.

[@jtcressy1]

love the ambulance at 11:56 just yeeting itself through the right side of the intersection

[@d1oftwins]

Glad I am not the only one seeing this. Seems more like a "Must go to the bathroom...YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!" situation than an medical emergency. 😁

[@haywire4686]

Haha, it took the optimal racing line as well!

[@rikschaaf]

I feel like the roundabout itself could be a single lane here, unless it is VERY busy. In the Netherlands we have a lot of decently high throughput roundabouts with only one lane. In such a case the "Inside lane" of the roundabout is a differently paved area (usually slightly slanted or with a low curb to discourage cars from using it) to make it easier for buses and 18-wheelers to get through the roundabout.

[@mysticaloreo9278]

We have a roundabout like in this video in Amsterdam, but it also has a tram in it, and bassically its the most terrifying thing to ever have to experience xD

[@milkylabo]

It's so beautiful! * cries in console *

[@YUMBL]

😂

[@somewhereinagalaxyfarfaraway]

This game alone is gonna be the reason I buy a gaming laptop

[@EduardoSevero]

@@somewhereinagalaxyfarfaraway on my way to doing that just need someone to employ me lmao

[@somewhereinagalaxyfarfaraway]

@@EduardoSevero start your own thing friend in today's world there's 1000s of opportunities to make passive income.

[@Rabid_Nationalist]

* joins in *

[@gnexjeff]

This is gorgeous. Kudos to the contributor. Thanks for passing it along to us and showing off the build process and detailing.

[@YUMBL]

No problem! :)

[@Seriously_Unserious]

This looks like a great design. I could see a pinwheel being a particularly elegant solution to a roundabout intersection where 1 or more directions has a large volume of traffic consistently turning right as a bypass without using up excessive space that some of the more traditional roundabout bypasses tend to take up. I could also see this supporting an overpass style bypass for large amounts of straight or left turning traffic traffic too, just would need a bit more engineering to pull it off but doable.

[@YUMBL]

Vanilla overpass may work well with it

[@Seriously_Unserious]

@@YUMBL Yup, pretty much any road built at elevation will suffice, whatever's needed to handle the flow and keep it a flow and not a jam.

[@Spoot1RHGL]

I have to say it is a bit of a pipe dream to think humans would like to sit on a beautiful bench under beautiful trees to then look upon or be bothered by the sound of a busy and asphalt grey round about. When it comes to actual use, I would propose to keep car and human infrastructure more seperated. Still I love the aesthetics of the roundabout at the end, good work!

[@dezignateddriva]

instead of crosswalks, use the park area for a pedestrian tunnel

[@viddork]

Once all the gas burning cars have gone away, use the land (including the centre circle, by pedestrian underpass) for community gardens.

[@cmyk8964]

I feel like the park area is just to separate the walking area with the driving area with more than just a guardrail. Or for drivers to pick people up, but that would interrupt the continuout flow

[@georgiosstamatopoulos6045]

That's one good-looking roundabout, and simple enough to make (or that might just be the way because of the way you explained it) Also, after you finished with your decorating, it looks like something out of an embroidery tutorial!

[@CC123Aus]

Very interesting roundabout, ty for posting. Personally, i utilise roundabouts a lot and have two types of collectors for my citities, one of which uses roundabouts. I developed this approach after living for 10 years in Canberra (Australia) which utilised roundabouts in a similar way, and as a result, traffic jams basically do not not exist, even in pique hour. Parliament house is on a Giant roundabout known as capital hill (I used to work right next to it). Cheers CC123.

[@mjarbar3204]

Looks great and love the fact that the traffic taking the first turning off (from where they enter) means they never really join the roundabout to begin with, however I did notice that traffic already on the roundabout has to cross over the traffic joining the inner part of the roundabout. In traffic-lite situations this probably will not matter but if traffic builds up it could become a choke point - and the whole idea is that a roundabout keeps traffic moving.

[@YUMBL]

Is that not how every roundabout works? Traffic in the circle has priority, and incoming traffic must yield. Its a turbo roundabout when its all said and done.

[@lilbigmorgan]

We need a 10 hour video with some lofi beats with the roundabout in the background just doing its thing.

[@YUMBL]

I gotchu ;)

[@ewenchan1239]

With that single lane to merge into and out of the roundabout though, that can very quickly become your bottleneck for traffic flow.

[@marthanye3029]

I love this! I'd love to see you putting the markings in as well :)

[@lx-icon]

This is honestly a thing of beauty - I do feel however that there's a good reason we don't see this type of roundabout that often in real life. Having the double lane on the outside road is indeed a must-have. On top of that though, the left-hand lane (which is for entering the roundabout) NEEDS to have stop signs. There's insufficient visibility on to the roundabout you're entering due to the narrow angles anyway - but even more so because the people EXITING the roundabout have to cut across you to exit. This I think is the biggest issue, and is why most traditional roundabouts will have people exiting BEFORE people enter the roundabout. If you run a few seconds from 12:17 you can see the white truck coming from the north trying to enter almost collide with a car exiting - and at roughly the same time, a small truck exiting towards the south cuts across traffic entering the roundabout from the west. These situations could be deadly in real life. That being said... I honestly don't care in-game as it's amazingly beautiful, and I love it :'D

[@mushroomsoup2866]

Pretty sure you can get people exiting before entering just by flipping the design

[@YUMBL]

The entrances have yields. See the pinned comment for a flipped version with better approaches :)

[@mojojojo560]

Wow this is such a great idea! It’ll probably take my local council only about 300 years to trial it.

[@hesterclapp9717]

4:14 I think the correct word is tangentially, because the road hits the roundabout at a tangent to it. Perpendicular would be coming away from the roundabout perpendicular to the tangent

[@YUMBL]

Correct, but i meant perpendicular to the guide coming off the circle.

[@janmckkreatives]

Can't wait to see Biffa try to rebuild this😛😜

[@YUMBL]

He can certainly do it

[@atlantxic]

@@SievertSchreiber you're not making any sense. he never that you can build it in vanilla, but u can certainly plot down the vanilla version that he created by downloading it on the workshop. stop being mean smh.

[@d3str0i3r]

i love roundabouts because they're great ways to work windmills or watertowers into smaller towns without interrupting your city planning too much

[@agsystems8220]

Nice, lots to take away from that. I won't be using it due to the poor visibility design for traffic entering, and because roundabouts are usually placed on existing roads that don't randomly offset, but I will certainly be using some of the techniques.

[@kaasmeester5903]

If you remove the offset and let traffic enter at a (more or less) right angle to the traffic on the roundabout, you end up with a more or less regular Turbo roundabout.

[@YUMBL]

Correct!

[@Fabermain]

irl those short merging lines will cause wrecks and blockages. but it sure looks sweet

[@YUMBL]

Its not a merge. Its a yield.

[@ReptilianLaserbeam]

this would look amazing to be used as a central park of a neighborhood with little traffic

[@makelgrax]

Yeah, and if it had less traffic overall, it might be good to half its road amount, which would make it easier to cross and use as a park!

[@mito._]

Very humble! Very yumbl! :D I love the design! It's really interesting to see how traffic simulation can be optimized! Feeling inspired to make an independent sandbox with custom tools and solutions (node editing is very powerful, and customized tools like walkway bridges)

[@jacobdavis6056]

I went from barely playing this to all of a sudden putting in 31 hours in it in a week and watching videos about intersections.

[@YUMBL]

CS may actually change how you view the world. Its pretty crazy. :)

[@bazzakrak]

Ahh you decided to make it, nice. Will have to wait a bit before watching it later today, but looking forward to it, to see how you work the in/outflow

[@YUMBL]

Enjoy! :)

[@bazzakrak]

Nicely made@@YUMBL and somewhat what I thought it would look like also, and I can see you have in and out traffic crossing each other, which cant be avoided. It is a nice round-a-bout that would look good inside a neighbourhood I would say, specially with the decoration you made there, not somewhere along a collector road where we need massive traffic going through.

[@ea214]

Wish you had a collection of all the cool intersections and interchanges you have made.

[@YUMBL]

Check my steam workshop ;)

[@mathewhope2045]

Wow this is super awesome looking, I’m gonna have to try it when I get back from thanksgiving with my family. Definitely deserves the thumbs up.

[@NelielSugiura]

"It's come full circle." I see what you did there. ;)

[@YUMBL]

:D

[@crazysonorangaming]

Kinda figured someone would come a"round" to saying that...

[@sleepingcity85]

I live next to a similar roundabout, but at this one the streets approach the center (not looking like a pinwheel, more like a star), have 5 lanes in it, marked like a snail and have traffic lights of course.

[@battlehawk77]

Gonna have to put this in my city at some point. Very nice! :)

[@williamjbivens1956]

Thank you for all of the time and considerable effort it took to bring this design to Cities Skyline life. It was/is a job very well done. (Bravo) In the comments, there were multiple concerns regarding entering and exiting the round-a-bout safely, and rightly so. What came to mind was multi-level entry/exit to the round-a-bout. The entry lane could go above or below the exit lane, or the exit lane could go above or below the entry lane. This would eliminate all chances of collision. Again, thank you for your time and efforts. williamj

[@YUMBL]

Thank you for designing this! It was very fun to build. I posted a version to the steam workshop that has the curves going the opposite direction, so traffic has to slow down when entering. Excellent angles overall imo :)

[@williamjbivens1956]

@@YUMBL I've been mulling over the cross-traffic concerns, and (currently), I believe that the best solution would be (using your two-lane design) to lower the roundabout and let the incoming traffic travel over the exiting traffic. Then the only possibility of cross-traffic problems would be when vehicles change lanes on the roundabout itself.

[@YUMBL]

I think the issues are inherent to roundabouts and not the design

[@playerxmaya7937]

I want to call it a "ninja" roundabout.. it's has beautiful form, and a clean style of "assassinating" the traffic problem.. 😉

[@Tuebor1]

Saw this, watched the whole thing, Launching cities right now to build it. Beautiful!

[@YUMBL]

Have fun! Its a great project :)

[@SeanLamb-I-Am]

I really like the simple complexity of this one. This is something that I feel confident in trying out on my own as well. Thanks for the ideas!

[@gtube6913]

Restricted to vanilla console here, but love to see these advanced tools and ideas functioning for effective use. I wonder how much better cities skylines 2 will be having all the historical knowledge of what modding fans have done. Thanks for sharing.

[@YUMBL]

Thanks for watching!

[@harag9]

Very nice design, though I can see accidents on there, on the left lane JOINING the roundabout to go of the 2nd or 3rd exit you need to giveway / stop as it's a neck breaker looking to the left for an opening onto the roundabout. But very nice, and thanks for sharing.

[@YUMBL]

You dont suppose they would see their opening as they drive up?

[@somewhereinagalaxyfarfaraway]

@@YUMBL in a world where common sense in drivers prevail...yes . In this world...no

[@harag9]

@@YUMBL Here in the UK where we have plenty of roundabouts, they are often bushes and arrow signs blocking the view forcing the joining car to slow down (even to the point of stopping) and look to make sure. In your video towards the end, you can see there was nearly a crash.

[@michaelheuss6502]

It would probably be ridiculously dangerous in real life with traffic able to enter at full speed and the tricky sightline over the left shoulder for traffic entering to see and yield to traffic already in the circle. But it looks cool and may still work really well in Cities: Skylines. Thanks for showing it!

[@sero090]

I would mirror the layout so that you go in on the curve and straight out of the circle. By that you eliminate the bad sight (traffic will come towards you) and the problem of speed.

[@lukasmax6984]

I imagine the crashes would be a routine spectacle lol

[@michaelheuss6502]

@@sero090 That might just be enough.

[@bobblebardsley]

I'd love to see this in real life, I'm so curious as to whether exiting traffic would be directly in the blind spot of entering traffic, I think there would be some entertaining chaos 😁

[@_ch1pset]

Think maybe inverting it, having the bend be the approach and straight section be the exit would solve that

[@cm24624]

@@_ch1pset oh, it took me a minute but I see. Really, this is like a standard flared roundabout, but straightening out one side of each flare. I gotta try this!

[@elyannouh8880]

@@_ch1pset Very interesting. Adding a yield sign for the “approach” lane would make this work like an actual roundabout without sacrificing the efficiency of traffic flow for those turning right and make incoming traffic more visible. I’ll make my template taking your remarks into account !

[@YUMBL]

The exiting traffic is really to the left of entering traffic. Just look left.

[@_ch1pset]

@@YUMBL yeah, tbh it's a non-issue IRL since these aren't slip lanes to begin with

[@carstenzimmermann4435]

The beauty of simplicity! Suggestion f Newmarket: hide it in a gridded area! Apply this concept to an area with a larger grid. The "Missing" roads will get close, but not connected (just walkable). It should as well work in rectangles; collectors will continue with an offset of 1 block to the left. You'd just lose some corner houses... Simplified: rectangle-a-bout (3L), straight collectors (2+2L), the 90° turns just within large nodes (NC is our BFF)

[@barryb3anz]

This is in use in real life I've only seen them in a town call Shrewsbury (in engalnd) it's realy effective

[@bradrio2826]

Thank you for this, not just the roundabout but the technique

[@marto.4427]

Maan, this was so good i want to buy the game, install it, throw some mods and do it myself

[@YUMBL]

Do it! :)

[@max.dempsey5219]

Being brith, this sets my teeth on edge. A visually interesting as it is, in a real world scenario, it just wouldn’t work. Having people diverged and merge at the same point potentially at speed because of the smooth angles is a recipe for disaster.

[@peaky43]

In real life this would be pretty unsafe because the cars that swap lanes cant see each other that well. You would have a lot of side collisions

[@darkracer1252]

only because of the bushes. it's actually quite easy to see without the bushes.

[@MemoriesAreLost]

12:25 You have traffic crossing over where some people want to come onto the roundabout and some want to leave. I've seen a sliproad/on-road like this where there are frequent accidents from people trying to join the road while others are trying to leave.

[@rtleitao78]

Dunno if it has been said. I don't know if it's tmpe'd, but at the end, at around 12:26, a guy comes on the bottom left lane and does not yield. He just dives into your beautiful roundabout and almost causes a crash. Cars exiting the roundabout have to break on a dime. Surely kids and groceries are flying all over that minivan. Children crying. Eggs and flour all over the dashboard because someone could not yield at a roundabout. Other than that excellent job. I'm sure Biffa aproves.

[@Soulzjd2]

Am I the only one who loves watching these videos but rarely plays the game or any city building games? Its like I want to but then when I play them I am like wow this is a lot work. :D

[@YUMBL]

I’m glad you like them :)

[@eshelly4205]

In Kos Greece there is a round a bout just like this near our vacation condo. It so smooth and quick

[@BoldRam]

Looks good in animation. In reality it's one of the most dangerous intersections I've ever seen. If you want to exit any time once you enter the roundabout you have to cross 2 lanes of traffic. Absolutely nuts hahaha. You have made what would be the 3rd exit into the first and easiest exit but in doing so you've made the other exits and entry points really dangerous in a real world situation. Technically it's not a roundabout as not all traffic has to enter it to utilise an exit. Looks very pretty and symmetrical though hahaha.

[@YUMBL]

You cross just one lane. These exist irl.

[@alohatigers1199]

I saw a comment and I agree with it. I feel like this roundabout would be aesthetically pleasing in a gridded city. Look at the angles, the curves.

[@YUMBL]

Totally!

[@havocmwf]

I like roundabouts that have the filter if you are taking the first exit, so you don't even enter the roundabout. It does mean you will be merging with traffic after the roundabout if it is a single-lane carriageway. I do like the solution of a similar filter to go right ( which would be the last exit on the roundabout). Really, you only enter the roundabout if you are going "straight on" or another exit that isn't the first or last exit.

[@dankcoyote]

This is super cool, I can’t wait to build one. One thing I might experiment with is making it so the traffic approaching the roundabout yields to the the traffic in the roundabout to keep things from backing up but yeah cool design, thanks.

[@borisp6804]

Yay, another thing to explore in this awesome game, thanks for all your tutorials, I am not very inventive when it comes to intersections, so all that you share work awesome in the way I have been implementing it into my city.

[@YUMBL]

I’m glad to help! :)

[@monsteradeliciosa9113]

YES! Build this one today. And its easy to make. And it looks much better than standard roundabout's. thanks for this YUMBLE.

[@YUMBL]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@monsteradeliciosa9113]

yeah this is a revolution in CS. it is changing my cites.I tried several types now 3 poit, 5 point. super small or huge they all work perfect. now working on a elevated Highway variant. absolute great work man!

[@YUMBL]

I’m really glad to hear it! :)

[@dsgreat3]

This style of roundabout with a “Bypass Lane” is quite common in the UK particularly on larger roundabouts that connect motorways.

[@ledvapour6937]

Same for the Netherlands. See these quite often.

[@Liftinglinguist]

This is actually really clever, good job!

[@jessejohnson6435]

What an excellent video show casing this very neat (Pin wheel) round about design! the end result is truly satisfying to look at. Thanks for taking the time to make this video for us all to enjoy. What a great community City Skylines has produced with all the possibilities this game has to offer. Take care out there everyone.

[@YUMBL]

Thank you for watching! I’m glad you liked it :)

[@Yakita60]

As a graphic designer, I left a like just for the thumbnail alone. Nice 👍🏾

[@YUMBL]

Much appreciated :)

[@MadsFeierskov]

You can build this in vanilla Cities Skylines 2, which is nice

[@V1489Cygni]

Definitly looks nice, it'd do wonders to break the monotony of regular designs. As far as efficiency goes though, I'm not so certain. Straight away the proximity of an incomming lane and the next outgoing one make me think cars trying to get in the roundabout will not only have to yield to those inside, but to those exiting as well, as if the intersections had driving on the opposite side to the rest of the roads

[@finncarson3191]

i don’t type comments and i’ve never watched you but this definitely calmed me down after a long day, i hope you go far man :)

[@YUMBL]

Much appreciated :)

[@manoelweber3677]

11:50 a crazy ambulance.

[@autolykos9822]

Design looks really cool, and is probably one of the fastest roundabout designs (especially with such a small footprint). Feels like a solution in search of a problem, though - usually, you want roundabouts to prioritize the people inside it over those entering, and to make merging (especially on such a short stretch of road) slow; this design kinda does the opposite. There may be a few use cases (perhaps industrial areas, where trucks don't like the sharp turns of regular roundabouts), but I wouldn't like this either in a residential area, or at a crossing of major roads.

[@YUMBL]

See pinned comment for reversed design

[@MrBroGrow420]

Definitely trying this later for sure, been messing with different ways to do a roundabout and this one just visually looks so appealing to the standard rouad meeting a roundabout straight on. sometimes I forget the versatility of having move it and node controller is haha

[@jackmack322]

pretty sure we partially have stuff like this in the uk. it might not always be all exits but there are definitly elements of this design near me

[@politicallynonbinary]

we have a set of 3 triangular roundabouts arranged in a triangle (miles wide) near where I live

[@flobiish]

That's a beautiful roundabout.

[@Mandus_The_Mad]

In vanilla you can recreate this with proper lane mathematics if the road is 4 lanes so the branching paths can be one way 2 lanes or you can make the roundabout a highway and use highway ramps for the branches.

[@ChadBeloin]

I've got a roundabout like this just down the street from my home, right down to the walking paths in the thumbnail!

[@OmegaDataAnalytics]

I've applied a custom version of this to one of my notoriously clogged crossings, in combination with another roundabout. Now the monster traffic jam hitting my city center and clogging streets miles around is gone. What a relief! :)

[@Jezato]

This should be in New Tealand. Nice work YUMBLtv

[@baconwizard]

Where you put the yellow stripes in the finished guild, you could convert those into crosswalks - not only would the pedestrians then only need to worry about one direction of traffic at once but would also optimise traffic flow even more.

[@HandsomeLongshanks]

Well done. That was beautiful to watch at the end

[@YUMBL]

Thanks :)

[@Pratz37]

As a civil designer, I have to say this design would not be used in the real world. Entrances shouldn’t connect on a tangent. Site visibility would be terrible. Looking over and behind your left shoulder for on coming traffic. The entrance should curve parallel with the exit then curve in the opposite direction connecting to the roundabout. 30-60 degree intersect. The S curve on the entrance slows traffic down. This is where to cross walk should go.

[@JohnWatkinsUK]

This design sacrifices speed for visibility, requiring you to effectively merge onto the roundabout with no sliproad, which is not a good thing. Driving a van or truck where you can not glance over your shoulder means you rely on your limited mirrors for this type of junction and is fraught with blindspots.

[@shaneintheuk2026]

There are roundabouts in the uk that approached this and they were death traps. The point of roundabouts is the approaching traffic gives way or yields. In the real world people see a straight road and forget to stop. Now modern roundabouts actually do the opposite and make a twist in the wrong direction just as you approach as it scares drivers into slowing down. The safety figures are dramatically different.

[@YUMBL]

Do you have any photos of them? Or names?

[@Bendigo1]

I wonder if it would work better if the round part was one lane and the straight/right turn was two-lane. The Issue I see is the right-turn traffic is having to wait for left-turning traffic, or traffic entering from the left. This design is like a clover leaf was mixed with a roundabout.

[@alohatigers1199]

I don’t see an issue. If you see a car in the roundabout, you stop and give way, am I wrong?

[@Unbreakify]

You just got a new subscriber, this is crazy!

[@YUMBL]

Welcome in :)

[@Unbreakify]

@@YUMBL thanks man!

[@Mqtisse]

This is dope. I think the main weak point i see is visibility. Where when approaching a normal roundabout you see the roundabout traffic in front/slightly left of you, on this version the traffic is almost behind you, or at least sharper left from you, necessitating either a longer stop to check for traffic when entering the roundabout, or no check because one is lazy and just drives through. This version also doesn't force the oncoming traffic to slow down significantly when joining, aiding in the flow, but also diminishing safety, as people are more likely to just drive on the roundabout, and at a higher speed, without looking for off going traffic. Still, its very cool visually and works perfectly fine in less busy traffic. And of course in CS all that doesnt really matter anyway, since people drive recklessly anywhere and the only thing that matters is throughput :)

[@YUMBL]

See pinned comment for fixed workshop asset :)

[@profusemoose1488]

i'd love to have even a fast forward version of the road marking, although this did show me a lot of good tips to use!

[@YUMBL]

I’ll do another intersection marking tool vid someday, but i’ve already made one :)

[@profusemoose1488]

@@YUMBL ill check it out then thanks :)

[@282sleeper]

Woooow. That is beautiful! Now I might consider using a roundabout or two. :)

[@YUMBL]

Do it!

[@282sleeper]

@@YUMBL I just might and it will be all because of you. NOT Biffa. :P Also, I have a question; Have you considered doing a video on what is possible with the Vanilla Overpass Project? Im going to try to get it to work tomorrow. Is figuring wether you can actually attach a offramp from, say, a highway to the one part to the Overpass? Sam Bur showed that it was possible to connect a offramp to a Overpass-Overpass. But what about skipping the one overpass and connect directly? Intriguing indeed. Up for the challenge? :)

[@YUMBL]

That is very possible! I would just have to find a place that requires it.

[@282sleeper]

@@YUMBL Cool! Im subscribed so Ill know when. :)

[@mechminded2207]

The reason entrances to a round about don't come in like this in real life is because it would encourage people to enter at speed, and increase accidents. Driving in the other direction would be closer to what does happen in some places in the UK. There is a dedicated left turn to skip a roundabout, and then a left to right sweeping join that requires the approaching vehicle to slow and look to their right before joining. And what would be your off-road when on the roundabout gives you a straight line no worries.

[@catofwisdom3837]

11:55 bro that car went ZOOMING

[@TheGribbleNator]

Oh my gosh...that thumbnail...why didn't I think of it? It's so good!

[@PerkeleKeyboardist]

It works but tbh I believe the mirrored design is more correct. You are approaching the roundabout in a sharp angle which makes you slow down significantly to look over your left shoulder and yield to traffic, and you can exit the roundabout faster in direct line, without the unnecessary slowing down for right turns. But it looks neat both ways though!

[@YUMBL]

I was just following the design presented to me. See the improved version in the steam workshop.

[@TheDutchMusician]

very aesthetically pleasing :D

[@CharliMorganMusic]

Wow, it's like ASMR for my eyes.

[@gaminggrandad5828]

OMG Yumbl you're a friggin genius

[@YUMBL]

I appreciate it, but the idea was given to me :)

[@LonelyRacoon]

That thumbnail is pure art

[@YUMBL]

;)

[@bman6039]

It’s a vehicle round-a-bout within a pedestrian-a-bout! Love it!

[@jakovperkovic5778]

Try doing it mirrored. Doing it in way that enter in roundabout is turn, and exit is straight. My opinion is that drivers entering the roundabout will have much better visibility thru the roundabout (better safety). But awesome design, i like it 👏🏻

[@YUMBL]

See pinned comment

[@justinbeloy5829]

How has this elegant design eluded my brain up until this point? Time to rethink my place in this universe...

[@elwindewitte]

You don't actually need to move the nodes with Move It, you can also change the intersection sub-nodes offset with the Node Controller, just drag them back until the outside lines no longer overlap. But definitely an awesome design!

[@baronmunro1494]

I know it sounds weird to double your pedestrian crossings, but you could put the crosswalks after the roads bifurcate. It'd let you tighten it up and it's also handy for pedestrians, as they only have to check one direction at a time.

[@thatjeff7550]

Late to the party but I wanted to share that this is almost exactly what is built in a small town my wife's family is from. The outer part of the roundabout is lined by all the "downtown" buildings (it's a *small* town) while the center is a park. The roundabout itself is only one lane, so easy enough for folks to access the center park.

[@eatshmoogle3573]

That looks like a nightmare in real life

[@YUMBL]

No, they work fine in Southampton apparently.

[@ZanethMedia]

This is the first video I’ve seen from you and I’m convinced you should take over for the city of Phoenix and their civil engineering

[@YUMBL]

Trust me, they don’t want me 😂