Retarded Junction, Newcastle City Centre

[motorhole]

Don‘t know if it‘s just me - or my unfamiliarity with Newcastle City Centre. But I drove there today for the first time. After climbing at Newcastle Climbing Centre (Byker), we tried to follow our sat nav to ‘The Gate‘ to meet a friend and found ourselves at the junction of B1307 (Percy St. iirc) and B1311, outside Eldon Square.

Approaching from Percy St, I was faced with:
No right turn, except for buses, taxis and cycles.
No through road, except for buses on the left.
No cars straight ahead.
No U-turns.

So wtf are you supposed to do? It can all be confirmed on Google streetview, but not sure how to post a link from my tablet. Feel free to go and check it out for yourselves. I did notice that most traffic just seemed to turn right anyway. I went straight on, on the basis of that was what the sat nav was telling me to do.

Anyone familiar with this place?

[motorhole]

Ah, yes I know the very mini roundabout you mean. The sign you refer to is an advisory sign (Local traffic only - all other routes), rather than a prohibitory sign. All the other signs at the nest junction are prohibitory. I may in fact have read that sign and mistakingly believed that my attempted access to the gate constituted my classification as ‘local access‘. The following sign you‘re going to miss until it‘s too late if you are a) following one of the many busus or b) focussing on the taxis waiting to join the mini roundabout from the right.

Edited by motorhole on Wednesday 16th April 08:41

Edited by motorhole on Wednesday 16th April 08:42