I'm firmly of the opinion...
that most of these road planning disasters are the result of a decision taken, must have been around 1991, to remove the ban on bringing coffee mugs into the planning room where all the blue-prints are laid out. It's the only explanation I can think of for the bizarre appearance, over the last three decades, of tens of thousands of roundabouts with no additional roads connecting into them, offset from the natural flow of the traffic by about two lanes width, overlapping with each other or just plain badly built - planners putting their coffee mugs down on top of the road planning documents.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
