Who has right of way entering this roundabout?

[Mr Joshua]

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=54.940408,-1.631597&spn=0.00047,0.001032&t=h&z=21

As you can see, coming down the hill you have there's a bus land on the left which terminates at the entrance to the roundabout. The sequence for the traffic lights means the lights for the bus lane change to green a second or two before the others coming down the hill.

Occasionally you will have a line of taxis in the bus lane entering the roundabout. As you can probably see from the link this sometimes means there's a bit of a conflict between vehicles in the inside lane and those coming from the bus lane.

So who has right of way in this situation?

 

[BigT]

Interesting. My interpretation would be that you give way to traffic on the roundabout and in principle that means traffic coming from your right. Therefore I would say the regular lane has priority over the bus lane. This is probably why the light sequencing lets the bus lane goes first because they wouldn't have right of way otherwise. A good idea but the taxi situation obviously means it doesn't work so well.

 

[mattyg]

Main carriageway has right of way. There is a give way sign in the bus lane. The main carriageway doesn't have a giveway as its signal controlled

To add further its NOT a roundabout.
There are traffic light signs but NO roundabout sign

 

[Mr Joshua]

Just as I'd thought, too bad the taxi driver who nearly drove into my rear quarter didn't agree .

 

[Millwall.FC]

Main carriageway has right of way. There is a give way sign in the bus lane. The main carriageway doesn't have a giveway as its signal controlled

To add further its NOT a roundabout.
There are traffic light signs but NO roundabout sign

This.

 

[Slobbo]

No such thing as right of way.

Don't car drivers know the basics? It's bizarre.

 

[Mr Joshua]

No such thing as right of way.

Don't car drivers know the basics? It's bizarre.

It is and I'm utterly, utterly ashamed of myself.

Now please pass the lentils, dear.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

No such thing as right of way.

Don't car drivers know the basics? It's bizarre.

Quite true:-

The rules in The Highway Code do not give you the right of way in any circumstance, but they advise you when you should give way to others.

 

[mattyg]

No such thing as right of way.

Don't car drivers know the basics? It's bizarre.

I was going to point this out but then changed my mind as I didn't want to be the Ass of the thread

Thanks for stepping up

But to join you

No such thing as right of way.

Don't car drivers know the basics? It's bizarre.

I can assure you there is such a thing As "right of way"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-of-way

 

[fornowagain]

The HC describes it as priority, e.g.

watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way

 

[233]

id say traffic on the main road has right of way hence the bus lane lights cycle a few seconds before the others

taxi driver was being a berk by the sounds of things

 

[Spartacus]

taxi driver was being a berk by the sounds of things

Nothing unusual there then!

 

[Richie]

If you go onto streetview, the Give Way on the bus lane would imply that the other carriageway has priority:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.9...m4!1e1!3m2!1siak7kMcuIK7ThBLJkkh_gw!2e0?hl=en

 

[NooBish AbbZ]

traffic coming from the right has right of way over both bus lane and 'other down-hill lane' then the other down hill lane has priority over the bus lane as a result of the give way at the end of the bus lane, then finally the bus lane.

I think?

 

[Millwall.FC]

No such thing as right of way.

Don't car drivers know the basics? It's bizarre.

Are you going to moan at people who say 'Road Tax'? Right of way is a very common unofficial descriptive phrase to define the opposite of giving way. Maybe there is a better word to define the car which does not have to give way that I cant think of at the moment.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Maybe there is a better word to define the car which does not have to give way that I cant think of at the moment.

Priority?

You know, as in the way the highway code describes it?

 

[Millwall.FC]

Priority?

You know, as in the way the highway code describes it?

fair enough but people use right of way as slang which was my point

 

[bazzabear]

Aiming disdain at people for daring to say right of way instead of priority is horrendously pedantic to be fair.

 

[BenjiSayers]

Done that section of road many a time. It can turn in to a bit of a free for all when it's busy as the timing of the lights on other parts of that road just cause traffic to build up so people just try and muscle their way in.

 

[Lima]

No such thing as right of way.

Don't car drivers know the basics? It's bizarre.

Whether people choose to call it 'right of way' or 'priority' is completely irrelevant. Right of way, in these terms means priority, so people saying this do know what they are talking about. I don't realise what is so bizarre about this. What is bizarre on the other hand is how ridiculously pedantic you are.