Roundabout Rules?

Psycho Sonny · 21 Apr 2019 at 20:07

Burnsy2023 said:
You need to find a particularly anal traffic officer to give you a ticket for that (and traffic officers are more of an endangered species than pandas or mountain lions), or be a complete pillock where that's the easiest ticket to write for a wider set of circumstances. Technically it's failing to comply with a road sign.

he isn't a traffic cop

Nasher · 21 Apr 2019 at 20:34

That's even worse then lol

Round here the cops who aren't traffic cops just don't seem to give a crap about traffic.

Burnsy2023 · 21 Apr 2019 at 23:06

Psycho Sonny said:
he isn't a traffic cop

Well, he's certainly not typical, unless, like I said, there was other context.

Psycho Sonny · 22 Apr 2019 at 02:00

Burnsy2023 said:
Well, he's certainly not typical, unless, like I said, there was other context.

he only just started on the beat a few months ago. so i don't know if his partner made him do it for practice or what not.

Overlag · 22 Apr 2019 at 08:53

Orionaut said:
Yes, I know your Hiabusa 1200cc bi-turbo Ninja Shogun, lying flat with your kneecap scraping on the tarmac, can go round to the third exit in the time it takes me to get the front wheels of my lorry over the give way line.

But that doesn't mean that my attempting to negotiate the roundabout before you even entered it means that I have somehow "Cut you Up"

I have this same problem on my bus. Apparently im supposed to see a minute into the future to know a car/bike doing 50mph is suddenly going to appear to my right, as my bus slowly accelerates to 10mph in about 10 seconds.

Orionaut · 22 Apr 2019 at 09:21

Overlag said:
I have this same problem on my bus. Apparently im supposed to see a minute into the future to know a car/bike doing 50mph is suddenly going to appear to my right, as my bus slowly accelerates to 10mph in about 10 seconds.

Glad to see i am not the only one!

Worst example I ever came across was at the roundabout on the A30 top of Yately near Blackbushe airport In case anybody is familiar with the location)

Me-Heading west wanting to take a left (first exit) to the Fleet road.

To my right, Car waiting to enter roundabout, indicating right.

Biker, to right (YES RIGHT) of right indicating car.

Anyway I go,

An Attosecond or so later I had said Biker right up my arse using all sorts of NSFW gesture and language becase, somehow, I had done something wrong!

Bikers are like ******, in the main many (Most even) are OK, but a significantly large proportion of them are total ********

(See also the jerks who think that the point at which I am slowing down and signaling right in order to enter my driveway is the perfect time to attempt an overtake! :rolleyes:

)

But hey, like with pedal cyclists, it is always somebody elses fault when they get squashed

Building Candy · 23 Apr 2019 at 12:01

If Lane 1 is for exit 1,2 and 3 then hardly anyone would ever get in lane 2. I think on this occasion i'd use lane 2 for straight on, seems like the more sensible idea to split the traffic a bit more evenly between lanes.

Steampunk · 23 Apr 2019 at 18:55

Building Candy said:
If Lane 1 is for exit 1,2 and 3 then hardly anyone would ever get in lane 2. I think on this occasion i'd use lane 2 for straight on, seems like the more sensible idea to split the traffic a bit more evenly between lanes.

Except you have to remember that there is traffic coming from the other roads too. The people going round to the right are also spending the longest time on the roundabout and going the furthest, which is why it makes sense to let them have the lane 2 most of the time while everyone else gets lane 1 to go past less exits and get off, clearing the roundabout more quickly.

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior · 23 Apr 2019 at 19:28

Upto halfway round left lane is fine, unless there is no exit before half way, then you can go to first exit
More than halfway right lane

Where its half way round then both lanes are fair game, and you should filter (ie he who gets his nose in front wins). Or if its two exit lanes then obviously you both keep to your lane.
Most of the driving I see, whoever took lane 1 would cut across to make it a single lane roundabout anyway, so the merge takes place before you get to the exit

If I approached that from lane 2 I would be very cautious of someone joining lane one from the junction A721, you wouldn't have much time in order to react. Whilst blame may well end up at their door, depending where you made contact it could easily end up 50/50 or worse your fault if somehow they get completely in front of you and you hit them.