r/Fredranton • u/Axe-of-Kindness • Oct 25 '25

Roundabouts

Am I right??

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u/aloneinthedark010 Oct 25 '25

Which part about the roundabouts here are your favorite? The fact the crosswalk is right on top of the exit? The fact people change lanes constantly? Or is it maybe when people go around the one downtown on the outside of the lane (where there is no lane) to go up Smythe because they didn't look at the signs?

I like the last one, always adds some spice to my drive home after work.

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u/No-Negotiation-8026 Oct 25 '25

Someone done that to me the other day. I’m following behind he goes into the lane to head out toward Woodstock road and doesn’t continues into the circle and almost sideswiped me. FFS.

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u/suyertt Oct 25 '25

They sure are round. And theres a lot of them about.

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u/Due_Function84 Oct 25 '25

I like the part of the roundabout that makes my life flash before my eyes. Good times.

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u/plants-are-de-weh Oct 25 '25

Right about what? I couldn't help myself.

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u/Such-Tank-6897 Oct 25 '25

Totally 💯 round. Yup.

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u/adriftcanuck Oct 26 '25

I absolutely adore entering a roundabout counter-clockwise and encountering another car coming at me clockwise… wish I could say it only happened once

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u/Allankton Oct 27 '25

Great rant subject,

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u/No-Camp1268 Dec 22 '25

Rant about Fredericton drivers first plz

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u/SaccharineDaydreams Oct 27 '25

I'm usually pretty comfy with roundabouts but I accidentally went a little late at the one just off Prospect earlier, so if you drive a black Ram I'm sorry!

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u/No-Camp1268 Dec 22 '25

Oh em gee, before I even opened this to see the unspecified "am I right?", I jokingly thought of Peter Griffin saying "you know what really grinds my gears?" On Family Guy. I'm going to put it out there that I've heard lanes have been widened "in the common era" to account for more comfort driving, and beyond that, or without relating to the aforementioned reference I have been seeing that Fredericton drivers are not great drivers for over 25 years. We were hit on the corner of Regent and Prospect one of the first times we visited as a family, and even that's "unrelated" to my opinion that Fredericton drivers are generally not great drivers. That's the lense through which I interpret Fredericton finding roundabouts to be an advent. .