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Old 12-13-2018, 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by capecoralbill View Post
...Are you saying that BOTH lanes of the roundabout need to be clear before I can enter the roundabout ?

That makes me wonder why some roundabouts have two lanes...
Picture this Morse or Buena Vista...there is a heavy traffic flow of north-south traffic. But there is zero traffic on the intersecting east-west street. If there were only one lane in the roundabout, then the capacity of Morse and Buena Vista would be effectively limited to a single lane at the roundabout, while two lanes of heavy traffic approach it. Not desirable.