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Originally Posted by fdpaq0580
"Everyone? "
I have seen a few that didn't.
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I didn't when I first came to the Villages, and people were telling me here on this website that you had to be in the inside lane in order to take a left in the roundabout. It made no sense to me at all. Because I'd never experienced roundabouts with more than one lane. We had single-lane traffic circles up north, where you go "around" (since it's a circle), and then exit to your RIGHT, once you get to the exit where you want to exit. That was always the explanation, verbally and in text. You exit to your right. Always.
And here, even with multi-lane roundabouts, you are still exiting to your RIGHT. But a 3/4 turn around the circle is called a left exit, and you're exiting to your left.
I can see how it can be confusing to newcomers or people who are reading these threads who haven't even come here yet. I can see it because it was confusing to me, and it's OBVIOUSLY confusing to many other people as well. If it wasn't confusing, there wouldn't be so many threads every year about how people are confused.
These threads about the confusion have been posted since long before I ever started posting, have existed in threads I haven't posted in even after I joined, and no doubt will continue to be posted long after I'm gone. So no, it's not a me thing.
Now, I know what everyone means, but I translate what they say, into what they mean. And they have a problem with the translation even though the translation is the more accurate statement: You exit to your RIGHT, no matter which exit you are taking. You enter whichever lane you enter. If you're taking your first exit, you must enter in your right lane, and exit to your right, into the right lane. If you're taking your second exit, you can enter from either lane, but must remain in that lane until after you exit the circle. If you're exiting 3/4 around the circle, you must enter the circle in the inside lane, remain in that lane, and when your exit approaches, you exit to your right, while in the inside lane.
You cannot exit to your left. There are no left exits. There's 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 turns around a circle, with exits off to the right of each exit point.