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Originally Posted by mikeod
The car coming from the east side of St. Charles to go west should not enter the roundabout until you have passed that point. If they speed up to pull alongside you and prevent you exiting to the resident side of the gate, I would just use the visitor side. Fortunately, that is more rare than the one going 3/4 of the way around in the outside lane.
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That is what happened. The car came out of nowhere, so it either entered behind me from Buena Vista and sped up past me on the outside lane by the time we got to St. Charles, or it came from St. Charles, passedm e on the outside, and exited onto St. Charles, cutting me off. The visitor lane was coned off for some reason, so couldn't use that. I just wondered who was right and who was wrong. (It was a big ole Caddylac, and I'm just a little bitty Chrysler 200 with a golf ball dent. Poor me, vote for me!)
I have thought about using visitor lanes in those situations, especially when someone coming from the opposite direction decides to enter the RAB as you are coming around in the left lane intending to exit. That seems to be dicey especially at BV and St Charles, the southernmost intersection of those two. There was an accident there last week where someone was t-boned at the St James gate.