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Old 12-01-2014, 09:06 AM
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The round-abouts in The Villages are engineered correctly and the lanes are marked correctly. They improve traffic flow dramatically over traffic lights.

A round-about is nothing more than a traffic light replacement. Think of it as the light at Morse and 466 with no turn lanes, just the main lanes.

You would ALWAYS yield if someone was in the intersection. And you always yield when someone is already in the circle.

If you wanted to turn left, you would always be in the left lane.
If you wanted to right you would always be in the right lane.
If you wanted to go straight across, you could do so from either lane.

It's OK for two cars to enter the circle side by side as long as there is no one already in the circle. Even where they force you to move right if you are going 3/4 the way around. Because the car beside you on your right should NEVER be going 3/4 the way around.

And so far I have never seen a dotted white line painted wrong in any circle. If you think about the rules and understand them, the dotted lines are painted correctly.

I just wish I could ask some of the fools that go 3/4 they way around in the outside lane, if they would go to a traffic light in the right lane to make a left hand turn. Everyone would say "of course not, that would be stupid"

Look at the green signs just before entering a circle and follow that logic.
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