The Roundabout Appreciation Society (UKRAS) is a group of people in the

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that discuss

traffic Traffic comprises pedestrians, vehicles, ridden or herded animals, trains, and other conveyances that use public ways (roads) for travel and transportation. Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffi ...

roundabout A roundabout is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic is permitted to flow in one direction around a central island, and priority is typically given to traffic already in the junction.''The New Shorter Oxford E ...

s. The main topic of discussion is the

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of the roundabouts, including their design and safety features. Other topics have included the approaches people take when driving towards and around a roundabout, and the

wildlife Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Wildlife was also synonymous to game: those birds and mammals that were hunted f ...

present on some of the larger junctions. Their aim is to promote safe driving and consideration towards other road users. The society was formed by Kevin Beresford after the success of a calendar that showed photographs of 12 roundabouts in

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– it sold 100,000 worldwide.

References

External links

Round-a-Bouts of Great Britain
– the official site {{UK-org-stub Road transport in the United Kingdom Clubs and societies in the United Kingdom Roundabouts in the United Kingdom