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New Roundabout Trend
Just wondering if anyone else has observed a new trend which seems to be emerging. I've been driving for over 20 years but have only recently had experience of this.
On my 15 minute journey home from work I pass over two large roundabouts with 60MPH speed limits. It's likely at both roundabouts that users will encounter a short queue of 1 or 2 cars.
On pretty much every occasion, someone will decide that they can't possibly wait in the 1 or 2 car queue on the left and will use the right hand lane to turn left around the roundabout whilst indicating left.
I'm quite frustrated with how impatient people are becoming these days. There never seem to be any police around and there are so many people who are just outright rude, incompetent or dangerous.
On my 15 minute journey home from work I pass over two large roundabouts with 60MPH speed limits. It's likely at both roundabouts that users will encounter a short queue of 1 or 2 cars.
On pretty much every occasion, someone will decide that they can't possibly wait in the 1 or 2 car queue on the left and will use the right hand lane to turn left around the roundabout whilst indicating left.
I'm quite frustrated with how impatient people are becoming these days. There never seem to be any police around and there are so many people who are just outright rude, incompetent or dangerous.
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Can you google streetview these roundabouts?0
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I find the opposite problem........
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4925904,-1.8896003,3a,78.8y,63.17h,72.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9_RmYHSus7zpl2Rof07QQQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
People using lane 1 here to go straight over, when lane 1 is left only and lane 2 is left/straight.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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Strider590 wrote: »I find the opposite problem........
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4925904,-1.8896003,3a,78.8y,63.17h,72.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9_RmYHSus7zpl2Rof07QQQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
People using lane 1 here to go straight over, when lane 1 is left only and lane 2 is left/straight.
This happened me to, lucky for my quick reflex in braking, I need a dashcam.0 -
These are not new incidents. I was involved in a small scrape caused by someone doing what the opp. said about 20 years ago, It was on the second roundabout as you come off the M25, using the A 243, to go onto the A24. Leaving the roundabout, if you want to stay on the A24 you have to be in the right hand lane as the left one is left turn only and locals who want to queue jump try to cut in as you leave the roundabout.0
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For motorists, slowing down or stopping is a dying art. Small, single lane roundabouts close to me are treated as double or triple lane despite there only being room for one car to drive around the roundabout and single lane exits so two cars pull away and both have to stop to decide who goes first. Regular minor accidents. Indicating is optional and often wrong.
Recently I've noticed an increase in cars whos lane is blocked by a parked car or similar choose not to stop but to use the opposite lane forcing the oncoming traffic to stop.
Useless drivers. Ban them. Bring back the birch
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Do you mean they overtake and cut in - or they go 450 degrees around the roundabout passing the point they entered from? If they do the latter, indicating right and then left to leave - it isn't wrong - but unnecessary if there's only a small queue to enter.On pretty much every occasion, someone will decide that they can't possibly wait in the 1 or 2 car queue on the left and will use the right hand lane to turn left around the roundabout whilst indicating left.I need to think of something new here...0 -
I'd say this has been a common London phenomenon for decades... relying on confidence to bully their way through. Or particularly when the first car has room to get through and the rest just follow on blindly....Norman_Castle wrote: »Recently I've noticed an increase in cars whos lane is blocked by a parked car or similar choose not to stop but to use the opposite lane forcing the oncoming traffic to stop.I need to think of something new here...0 -
More annoying is the habit of treating a roundabout as if it didn't exist and driving straight across, cutting into the second lane instead of properly going around to the left in lane one, seen a lot of close calls where drivers in lane two have a vehicle half into their lane because the other lane is too much effort to stick in
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People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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It's the non-indicating when they want to turn right and then exiting that annoys me.You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.
Donald Trump, Press Conference, February 16, 20170 -
More annoying is the habit of treating a roundabout as if it didn't exist and driving straight across, cutting into the second lane instead of properly going around to the left in lane one, seen a lot of close calls where drivers in lane two have a vehicle half into their lane because the other lane is too much effort to stick in
I've been forced onto the kerb of a roundabout by this behaviour on several occasions. The problem is not that people do it, the problem is they don't check for cars around them when they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsOtQT1rDU
Oh and the other thing, when people use their RH indicator to go straight ahead from lane 1.“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an a** of yourself.”
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