The low-key sarcasm gets me every time. I love it. :)

The motto of the UK's road improvement committees: "If it ain't broke, and you want as much allocated funds next year, spend millions of the taxpayers money to f*ck things up."

As a Basingstoke resident, I can confirm the roundabout promotes less traffic as I now actively avoid it!

They did exactly the same in Plymouth, took out a series of subways designed to seperate pedestrians from the traffic and put in pedestrian lights... instant congestion. Keep up the good work.

I think subways for pedestrians have the potential to become really dodgy places and are rarely pleasant places to walk through. That being said, if I had the choice between needing to go through a slightly dodgy underpass and waiting at traffic lights near at least three car lanes several times, I think I'd choose the underpass. You don't need underpasses for normal intersections, but if you already have them for a really wide, high traffic intersection like this roundabout, I really see no reason to remove them.

I like this video so I’ve pressed the button specifically for that 👉🏻

I live far too close to Basingstoke for my liking, and I can also confirm the roundabout has been butchered, and is clearly the product of thoughtless self-important bureaucrats.

What bothers me with this ‘improvement’ is that they got rid of the underpasses (so pedestrians and cyclists now stop traffic to cross) and now no one is in the correct lane. I’ve almost been killed on my bike 4 times since it opened and side swiped in my car twice.

Your infrastructure videos should be made mandatory viewing for each and every planner that endeavours to meddle with a junction before they are allowed to lift a finger. I would love to see you do a video with the planners where you give them the opportunity to justify their work. Auto Shenanigans Planning Debates. Frickin sweet awesome!

There will be no roundabouts in the future

As a resident of Basingstoke, and I live a stones throw from this abomination, I can confirm, it’s shit

I was going to press the like button, but thought I would wait and see if it did it by itself like the crossing button in the video.

Q: Why do people take an instant dislike to Basingstoke.

"do you live in Basingstoke?"

Agreed, once a roundabout has traffic lights, it's original purpose has been defeated. Turn it into a cross roads. While I'm at it, if we have to have lights on roundabouts, at least turn them off at 9pm and turn them back on at 6am. Waiting for absolutely nothing coming on a roundabout is wasteful and makes me very very angry.

Awww Basingstoke. Back in the early to mid 2000’s before that roundabout had traffic lights, I was a trainee British Gas engineer and our training centre was just off that round about. Come 5 o’clock around 50 early 20 something lads in our BG vans we used to descend on that roundabout and play a game of who could get the most laps of it 😂 being nearly 40 now id like to apologise to any locals who were forced to sit and wait while we completed our British Gas roundabout Grand Prix 🙏🏻

The way this guy is throwing shade could shame a solar eclipse into total darkness.

“We’re going to need them soon enough, looking at this roundabout” 😂😂 priceless! Love it

I knew someone who lived in Basingstoke once. Finding their house was a bit like navigating your way through a different galaxy. 🤣

I’ve driven around it and it’s exciting! Vehicles cutting across you from left and right. No one knows what lane to be in and who has right of way. You just need to put your car in gear, pick your line and go for it! I feel more alive each time I’ve driven around it 😅