Forever hearing from folk that the roundabouts are bad and difficult to use when in reality its mainly bad driving that causes all the issues. If you read the signs and follow the markings on the road then they will work ok in general. I generally only use it to go either from town up the bypass to the M1 or vice versa and dont  have any issues. The issues i do see are people in the middle lane from town then going right up Derby Rd so cutting across traffic correctly in the right hand lane whilst also leading to people being blocked from the middle lane going up the bypass so they try silly things to go around the blockage. You can see from this link on Google Streetview its clearly marked up that the middle lane is for the A617 straight on and the right hand lane is for the A61S.

https://goo.gl/maps/vCZSm13qpKk

Remember this was posted by the Derbyshire Times facebook page quite a while ago...someone had resorted to a You Tube clip to try and explain to folk how the roundabout worked :-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKcJLwG0p9w

For me one of the worst ones is the Kwik Fit roundabout that struggles to cope with the traffic and folk just blocking exits which causes a build up of traffic or failing miserably to realise that if you come up to the roundabout from B&Q etc you can go left without stopping onto Markham Rd...seen a few incidents where folk have nearly rear ended people just stopping for no reason at all.

Some details here about it :-
https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/yorkshire/less-cash-54-the-big-switch

Seems the fare changes will be a lot more for some folk than others. They've basically just gone for nice round numbers but if you paid £1 before its now £1.50 whereas folk paying £1.40 it only goes up to £1.50. That said i'm a big fan of making it easy to pay for things using tech, we used a park and ride in York a few months back and we just jumped on and i paid using Apple Pay on my phone, so much simpler than messing about with cash as we're trying to manhandle ourselves, the little one, her folded up pram and bags onto the bus whilst other folk generally get in the way onto a bus that hasnt really considered where to store all this stuff!!

I was up there walking this morning  and traffic was going both ways on St Augustines  Road  and there was no workmen or  lorries  or diggers to be seen.

I drove down that way on Sunday night going to cricket nets at the place off Storforth Lane and all the signs were out ready to go.

In reality initially is this going to cause that much of an issue actually on Derby Rd? The only part affected is the bottom of St Augustines whilst they make it wider for longer so you cant come down the hill to the lights so people doing that will be affected by it, traffic on Derby Rd can still travel along it both directions without being affected and, initially, you can still turn up St Augustines. Its going to be a pain for folk wanting to come down to Derby Rd from Whitecotes way but along with the actual diversion there are a number of other ways of getting to there.

I generally dont need to go down that way in a morning but looking on Google Maps traffic flow currently its showing as Green so no issues all in that area.

https://bulb.co.uk/about/

No issues to date and switching was pretty simple. If you do switch you can do it via this link and i think we both get a discount of some sort...not 100% sure on the details.

bulb.co.uk/refer/jonb8184?utm_campaign=account-referral-share&utm_medium=copy-link&utm_source=copy-button

We had English Heritage for a while after signing up going into Scarborough Castle and the few times we used it there did seem to be a feeling it was just places that the National Trust didnt want!! They even advertise a place called Hob Hursts House on Beeley Moor as one of their locations....when you get there its a mound of earth with a little fence round it!! We cancelled it a while ago but now actually get it as part of our Barclays account so its handy when we do stumble across somewhere half decent....places like Scarborough Castle and we found one near Luton called Wrest Park i think that was handy for a break driving back from Dover with the little one and the dog whilst coming home from France in the summer.

With regards to the pulling out onto Derby Road....is it really any different to the Nottingham Rd junction just over the brow of the hill coming up it or the turns into the building site or Halcyon Approach? Presumably it will be signposted accordingly.