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Old 01-01-2023, 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill14564 View Post
Yes, and....?

Coming from 441 you go 270 degrees to exit on Paige Place. As you wrote, you will do this using the inside lane. When you reach Paige Place there is only a single lane - take it. No conflict with other traffic, no merging, no changing lanes, just the inside lane exiting at the 270 degree point. On other circles there are two lanes to choose from and you need to pick the correct one - the single lane on Paige Place makes this circle even easier to use.
If someone comes in to the circle from Morse heading north, with Paige as the first exit around the circle, and you had already entered the circle from the inside lane coming from 441 - you won't see each other. They'll be JUST starting to accelerate by the time you're almost to them. If they're going especially slow or had to wait last second for a passing golf cart (because sometimes they don't stop even if they should) - you could easily end up heading to that same exit at the same time. They have a right to be in the outside lane coming from the exact opposite direction as you, and you had a right to be in the inside lane. You get to the first exit, and have to merge with them onto that exit.

I mean - this kind of thing happens every single day over there. Sometimes there are accidents, and sometimes people just "figure it out."