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Originally Posted by JB in TV
I've said this before and I will say it again. I believe part of the problem (NOT all of it) is the solid white line seperating the two lanes as one enters the 3 o'clock exit...approaching a gate that has both a visitor side and a resident side. This solid line tells people not to cross it, so when they see the broken line (within the roundabout) they tend to cross it to get to the "visitor's side" before they get to the solid part, which they believe is not to be crossed.
Would it make sense to have that solid line changed to broken line? It is certainly against my training to cross that solid line. With that said, I believe this is part of the problem... folks think "How can I get to the Visitor's side without crossing that solid line?" Yet the broken line is within the roundabout, where one is not supposed to change lanes!
Does this make any sense?
EDIT...changed the word to "broken" that had been ***ed (was d o t t ed)
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Which is the three o'clock exit? They're all three o'clock exits, depending on where you entered the roundabout.
Forget the broken lines and the signage if that confuses you. It's simple just to think of the roundabout as an intersection of two roads that are two lanes wide in each direction.. You would not ever make a left-hand turn from the right lane of that intersection, so don't do it in a roundabout.