[tomwed]

Originally Posted by JoMar

Notice there are broken lines at the exits which allow a change of lanes.....con't change where there is a solid line. Nobody pays any attention but they are helpful if used.

I often wondered if you knew nothing about the rules of the road except for solid and broken lines if you couldn't ever go wrong.

[marjie55]

I have crossed to get into my village both ways. If you go fairly slow using your right blinker and watch for the other cars you should be fine. Sometimes you may not have enough time because of passing traffic, and you must use the far right lane to go around to third exit . The more practice, the more confident you will get. Have faith!

[crash]

Originally Posted by marjie55

I have crossed to get into my village both ways. If you go fairly slow using your right blinker and watch for the other cars you should be fine. Sometimes you may not have enough time because of passing traffic, and you must use the far right lane to go around to third exit . The more practice, the more confident you will get. Have faith!

Bad practice to use the outside lane to go to the 3rd exit and if there is an accident with someone on the inside lane you will be at fault. Look at the signs entering the round about it shows you can go right or straight.

[Challenger]

Am I Mistaken? I know of no left hand turns from any of the circles. As I see it , you enter with a right turn and all exits require right turns all while circling left

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by marjie55

...Sometimes you may not have enough time because of passing traffic, and you must use the far right lane to go around to third exit...

Absolutely not!!

You should be in the left lane approaching the roundabout if you wish to make a "left" turn, and you are required to yield to all traffic in the roundabout. So when you properly enter a roundabout, you will have no problem getting to the inside lane and proceeding around to reach your third exit.

[yabbadu]

Accidents............Stupid is as Stupid Does

[dewilson58]

Straddle the line, use both lanes and you can go in any direction you want.

[Rga20]

Agree completely with using the visitor lane rather than crossing over someone to get into the resident lane, but the real problem is that all of the procedures described for safe use of the roundabouts only work if everyone is entering from the same spot. If the "how to do it charts" were viewgraphs and you overlaid them, rotating each one 90 degrees, at the end you'd have lines (read that cars) crossing over each other, which is what happens. The only real answer, which would never happen, would be to funnel traffic to a single lane entering the circle and making the circles single lanes. It wouldn't impede traffic all that much and the problem would be largely solved. Just my humble opinion.

[CWGUY]

I think most of these posts belong in the "Just for Fun" section.

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Straddle the line, use both lanes and you can go in any direction you want.

[CWGUY]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Straddle the line, use both lanes and you can go in any direction you want.

You could try that..... just don't be surprised if you get passed on the left and on the right at the same time!

[tomwed]

Unless I'm making a quick right I head for the middle and go round and round until I'm positive no one is on my right. It rarely happens that someone is on my right. It takes me longer to get where I'm going but this seems safest and most defensive to me.

[Polar Bear]

Originally Posted by Rga20

...The only real answer, which would never happen, would be to funnel traffic to a single lane entering the circle and making the circles single lanes. It wouldn't impede traffic all that much and the problem would be largely solved. Just my humble opinion.

You’re right about it never happening. But you’re wrong about the impact if it did. Capacities would be dramatically reduced and conflicts would be dramatically increased. It will never happen because traffic engineers know it would be a disaster.

[DARFAP]

If you stay in the right lane, you can't go to the third exit. First and second only...and signal your exit. It helps everyone.


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[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Marathon Man

Go through the guest gate. Eliminates the problem. I do it all the time. It's OK for a resident to use the guest gate.

Guests sometimes have questions when it is a manned gate. I prefer not to wait behind someone who is holding up traffic by speaking with the gate attendant.