[QUOTE=Indydealmaker;785861]https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...oundabout1.jpgI think that it might be less confusing for the newbies on the roundabouts to quit thinking in terms of right turn and left turns. Just learn which lane you are supposed to be in to go the direction you choose. Logically, all turns from the circle are "right" turns. The exits are one through four. Regardless of which direction you enter from, your first exit is YOUR number one, the two, etc. The signs posted at the approach to each roundabout are very clear.

Also, no lane changes should occur once you are in the roundabout. You are either inside our outside.

Never enter a roundabout beside another car. Stagger your entry so that you are not T-boned. Also the speed limit of 20 is absolutely necessary. It is not an arbitrary speed.[/QUOTE

According to Lt. Wolfe, (Sumter County Sheriff's Department) a person making a LEFT TURN should use the VISTORS GATE ONLY! No lane changes should occur once you are in the roundabout and that includes changing lanes to go into the RESIDENT GATE! STUDY THE DIAGRAM, a person making a left turn is going into the VISTORS GATE which is always on the left side entering the gate. There is no lane change shown going into the RESIDENTS GATE.

Sorry have to disagree. That is exactly what is happening now...and how is that working out for everyone.

Never change lanes in a roundabout.

The dotted or dashed lines apply to the cars exiting from the side subdivisions...

think about it, why would you be in the left lane wanting to go right,

why would you get in the right lane if you were going to go left.

Roundabouts keep traffic flowing by staying in the correct lane..

Dotted/dashed lines have nothing to do with cars already in the circle..

Having said that...we made the same assumption as you posted when we first came to TV...

however..Common Sense prevailed...when we understood the signage...
haven't had a problem since...

[quote=THE NEWCOMER;786224]AGREE you are correct...and do think before you get to the roundabout in which direction your going..

And remember to signal before you make your turn, not while you are making your turn as it is too late then.

It is amazing the number of people that only signal while they are actually making their turn and I have even seen those that turn on the signal light after they have completed their turn. I wonder why?

If everybody would use the little stick at the left side of the steering wheel, the blinker, more often it would make all much easier.. not just in a round-about. As Europeans have to use it, if you want to go out, means leaving the round-about use the right blinker, if you are on the left lane stay you have to circle until no other car from back (right side) can hit you, give signal (again: blinker to the right) and get out. Actually, it is pretty easy.

This is new to me...
 

This AM, our neighbor and good friend was approaching a roundabout on her bike. She saw a car slowing down like they were going to exit, but they did not. Next, they moved to the left lane, so she assumed they missed exit and were going around again. They did not, but instead banged a U-turn and went the wrong way in the roundabout back to the exit it missed ....

I try not to post on roundabout threads, but come on....you must admit this is a new one :shocked:

Since I am already posting on the thread... why not share my opinion on roundabouts?
Much better for traffic flow and I feel much safer in them then a signal light....

Probably not a new one, just new for you. I agree that roundabouts are safer and better traffic flow - we just have to be alert for drivers that don't follow the rules!

All cars entering a traffic circle are supposed to yield to BOTH LANES of traffic within the traffic circle.

Even more about roundabouts.

But it is more old stuff! :(

Bogie...That is the way to do it. I have always done that and saved my car more than once.

Otherwise you would be right but in some cases dead right. Not really dead but a messed up car for sure.

Glad posters are posting to these old threads............not!

Hear, hear.

same way in Boston

The car on your right was clearly in the wrong. If he entered at 6:00 and want to exit at 9:00 or back at 6:00 he should have been in the left hand lane. You can avoid most accidents by expecting people to do the wrong thing, but if there was a collision in this case, the other person would have been totally at fault.