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Old 06-24-2010, 03:18 PM
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Default I love round-abouts

They do an amazing job of speeding up traffic at intersections.

It ain't that tough, if you are in the outside lane and there ia an inside lane you may have to exit at the next right turn. There are white lines that follow the next exit. Some are solid some are dashed. If it is solid you must exit. If if is dashed you may continue around the circle but only if there is no traffic in the inside lane because that inside lane can exit too. If you want to keep going around to 180 or 270 or 360 it's best to get to the inside lane then switch to the outside lane when you meet the exit quadrant that you want.

Always drive defensively most don't understand the concept. I personally never parallel another car in the round-about. I stager my car and make sure I am well ahead of the car behind me before I put on the turn signal and exit. I have on ocassion gone all the way around to avoid what seemed like a driver who was not going to do the right thing.