Roundabouts Vs Islands

Dragged up N Brum/S Staffs and yes always Islands. Traffic islands. Roundabouts are at the playground;->

YamYam here, they’re interchangeable but usually islands is my go-to.

So how do you refer to what the rest of he country calls (traffic) islands as above?

So how do you refer to what the rest of he country calls (traffic) islands as above?

Not sure! Probably just ‘the crossing’. My driving instructor called them ‘pedestrian havens’ which makes sense but sounds a bit formal.

Roundabout. Anything else is wrong.

Few years back an Eastern European driver was trying to find an address I waas at to drop off kit.

He was calling the roon-a-boots in Renfrew ringabouts!

roundabout, but i reckon the size may have an influence.

Big ones, definately roundabouts

Small painted ones, or ones barely large enough to hold a sign, could be islands, i spose.

Highway code says roundabouts

Some larger roundabouts do have bushes and trees on them, but that’s not to provide some muppet with somewhere to pause while trying to walk across a roundabout, ‘cos that would be bloody stupid!

Although I have seen some big ones where backpackers/hitchhikers had pitched small tents. 🙂 🙂

big roundish thing or medium roundish thing with vehicle exits- roundabout
flat white painted bump with vehicle exits – mini roundabout
thing in middle of road for folk to stand in – traffic island

So how do you refer to what the rest of he country calls (traffic) islands as above?

Not sure! Probably just ‘the crossing’. My driving instructor called them ‘pedestrian havens’ which makes sense but sounds a bit formal.

Same here, crossings or safe havens as my instructor also told me 30 years ago

I’ve spoken with the girlfriend and she reckons my crossing point is called a refuge. She is posher than me though, as she is a Brummie. You lot will be telling me you don’t know what a gambol is next.

I’m from Shropshire and they’re Islands in my vocabulary too.

Never heard a roundabout called an island.

Clearly roundabout.

I did have a strange experience in rural New South Wales where I was getting some route clarification in a pub. We couldn’t work out if a track marked on one map but not another still existed so we asked a local. He told us to go down the road, past all the houses until we got to the thingy, the whatdyacallit, the “roundabout” he said. Roundabout? In the middle of nowhere? OK.

We got to the end of the tarmac and there was a cul de sac turning circle (!) and a gap in the undergrowth just about wide enough to get through, followed by an awesome track littered with abandoned 4x4s.

Now Dinner vs tea.. ffs tea time at 11am, dinner at dinner time! (which is 6pm-ish)

Simpler in Australia – where i’ve never heard anyone refer to dinner as tea or supper.

Breakfast
Morning Tea (or Smoke-o for tradies)
Lunch
Afternoon Tea
Dinner

Just listen to the way brummies say it – something like oyyylend. That should be enough reason not to call them islands.

I’ve heard Americans call them road circles. That’s when they can bring themselves to talk about them as they’re usually terrified by the experience of driving around one.

Yes, traffic circles in California and approached with extreme caution. You’ll often get five-minute stand-offs.

Inveralmond roundabout
Broxden roundabout
Swallow circle

Shepherd and Flock Roundabout, Farnham, Surrey.

If ever a roundabout deserved to be called an “island”, it would be one with a pub and a village green on it. But no. Roundabout it is.

Islands are things you go to to from. Like the ones in the middle of pedestrian crossings.

Roundabouts are things you go round about – like roundabouts – as opposed to to, or from, or over.

The only island you go round about is GB after Brexit. Little international trade joke for the Irish there 😜.

Roundabout or island? Nah, ramp:

https://youtu.be/k7jg-g2ma8w

nedrapier
Shepherd and Flock Roundabout, Farnham, Surrey.

thats no island… sorry roundabout, that’s a ring road!