Roundabouts
 

I always thought you exit from the outside lane not the center lane. Imagine if cars would be allowed to exit the interstate from the center lane. It should be the responsibility of the car that wants to exit to get to the right lane and if that means you must go around the circle a second time - so be it. Exit only from the right lane!

Once in the roundabout, you don't want to be changing lanes. :eek:

That's not the way RBs work.

Does seem simple, doesn't it? Yet I have seen just about everything you can imagine except for people actually backing around the round-a-bouts, and I'm pretty sure one day that too will happen.

absolutely right on !!! Yielding to the inside traffic is really dumb. This gives the inside driver permission to cut off other drivers in the outer lane. Take highway 27/441 for instance, is it acceptable for a driver traveling in the inside lanes to make a right turn exit in front of the traffic in the outer lane.

I was on 441, in Leeburg, the other day. There is a fork in the south traveling lanes. The right lane is forced to take the right fork. The "inside" or left lane has the option of taking the left OR right fork. That's kind of how you have to view the RBs; each exit is a fork in the road. At least, that's how I view them.

You're not exiting anything. You're simply staying in your lane. It's as if interstate off ramps had two lanes and the rule was that you can exit the interstate or stay on form the left hand lane, but you must exit if in the right hand lane.

And what you're suggesting is not the law. The law says that if you intend to turn right, you must use the right hand lane. If you intend to turn left, you must use the left hand lane. If you are going straight, you may use either lane.

Bingo! I'll repeat myself. In the case of a roundabout, you are not exiting a roadway. It's much more like a two lane fork in the road.

The ra's are to small to use properly. If you enter from the right side you should enter the first right turn, if you are going to the second entrance you should enter from the left side and proceed to the right before the entrance. There just isn't enough room to do so properly so those on the left (using their directional signal) should enter their exit turn from the left. It is confusing and somewhat dangerous. Many of the problems could be solved by having only one lane in the roundabouts (but that is not feasible for several reasons) and then people using their turn signals, but that seems unlikely.

Yes, but the only problem is that there are way too many people who don't know the meaning of the word "YIELD"

Can you imagine those same people looking at those "map" signs and thinking "what the ..." just as they enter the RBs?

Better still is to have only ONE lane going around and eliminate the wonder if the middle lane is going to turn or not. It works well in other places I have been with the RB's!!!

Yes. I agree. But many on TOTV have not experienced single lane RBs and dismiss them immediately as not viable in TV.

Roundabout Solution!!!!
 

I agree....using signals is definitely a good thing. But it is mentioned in the roundabout threads regularly.

There isn't a middle lane, only left and right lanes. Just follow the signs. This isn't rocket science.