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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
I really fail to understand how anyone can claim they don't know how to use a roundabout. It is exactly the same as a traffic light. If you want to turn right at a light, you use the right hand lane. If you want to turn left at a light you use the left hand lane. If you want to go straight through you use either lane. And you always yield to someone already in the intersection. Roundabouts work exactly the same way. Those that can't follow those simple rules are probably a problem any where they drive.
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You're right, but some will just never get it. Twice this past week, I was almost creamed by 2 drivers( in different instances) and it would have been horrendous if I had not been watching them very closely. In both cases:
I was going north on Buena Vista, north of Rainey Trail. As I approached the circle at Winifred entrance, I was going to keep heading straight on BV and so I entered the circle in the left (inner) lane. The driver next to me on the right, also heading north on BV, entered the circle beside me on my right, sped up rounding the curve, and as I started to exit at 180 degrees with my signal on, the driver beside me
shot leftward in front of me to turn left FROM THE RIGHT (outer) lane. It was heart stopping and happened twice in a week. Thank God I knew to be on the lookout for such dangers!
Why can't people get it that you don't turn left from the right lane? Especially when the big arrows on the pavement in the lanes clearly indicate in advance which ones are used for a right or left turn.....