One for the armchair Highways code experts! (or Imurg!)

Which Lanes with destination of 7

  • Lanes 1, 3, 7

    Votes: 2 5.9%

  • Lanes 1, 4, 7

    Votes: 8 23.5%

  • Lanes 1, 5, 7

    Votes: 1 2.9%

  • Lanes 2, 3, 7

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Lanes 2, 4, 7

    Votes: 19 55.9%

  • Lanes 2, 5, 7

    Votes: 4 11.8%
  • Total voters
    34
Rooter said:
Right, near my house i have to cross a double roundabout every day on the school run. I have drawn a pic. North to south is the A339 dual carriage way.

I come from point A to point B. My question is what lanes would you use to do this??

I have numbered them, and hopefully they show up in the pic. Will add a poll!

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This is two roundabouts. At the first you are going straight on. Therefore you should be in lane one. At the second you are also going straight on, but the extra lane is a bit of a curveball. As the majority of traffic will probably be going left in 3 I'd use 4, and then end up in 7.
 
OK well i do 1 4 7. I see that lane 1 is for north on the single carriage way, lane 3 or 4. (Lane 4 feeding both 6 and 7. 6 veers off to a retail park and 7 carrys on)

2 is for lane 5 (which in turn is for south on the dual carriageway) and south on the smaller roundabout.

The problem point comes after lane 1 and 2 and 4 and 5. half the people use lane 2 wanting to go to 4 and the same for people in lane 1.

I drive a massive 4 x 4 so i am obviously always correct! But my mrs says, she gets beeped at or abused for being in either lane!!

Its a nightmare.
 
jdpjamesp said:
This is two roundabouts. At the first you are going straight on. Therefore you should be in lane one. At the second you are also going straight on, but the extra lane is a bit of a curveball. As the majority of traffic will probably be going left in 3 I'd use 4, and then end up in 7.
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YESS!! Thats how i roll!
 
We have an island we all locally call "suicide island" as it's like the start of the Le-Mans, you have 5 lanes approaching it from the south, depending on where you're going there can be either 2 out to the north, 2 out to the east, 1 only to the north west and 2 lanes to the west but, there are also only 4 lanes around the island, it's scary madness at rush hour because when you have 5 cars revving for a quick start as the lights hit red, there are only 4 lanes to go for :eek:
 
1,3,6 in the absence of arrows on the floor. Unfortunately a very large number of drivers seem to think that a right hand lane is ok to go straight over a roundabout.
 
Rooter said:
You would get some serious road rage from me if you did that while i was going 2,4,7!!
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Why 4-7..?
If you're in 4 because 3 goes left then you're "effectively'" in the left lane of the roundabout going ahead so you should stay to the left and go 4-6..
You'd use 7 if you were in 5...
 
Rooter said:
77% of people here so far too!!
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I'm not surprised, that's probably representative of real life. These are the people that try to take the front of my car off when cutting me up to go straight on.

It's fairly straight forward IMO, at a standard 2 lane entry 3 exit roundabout - use the left hand lane for turning left and going straight on. Right hand lane only for turning right.

Only time this differs is if the road marking indicate which lane you should use.
 
Imurg said:
Why 4-7..?
If you're in 4 because 3 goes left then you're "effectively'" in the left lane of the roundabout going ahead so you should stay to the left and go 4-6..
You'd use 7 if you were in 5...
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no, 5 is for south. 6 and 7 while 2 lane, I should have been more clear that 6 is left only into a retail park. I see 6 and 7 as a free for all filter from 4.
 
I went 1, 4, 7 and voted before seeing everyone elses comments so as not to be influenced. Getting through to the current page I see that I would do the same as the OP.

Roundabouts leading into other roundabouts, 3 & 4 lane roundabouts etc are a nightmare. People cut across lanes, many just can't cope, sorry older people but I'm talking about you on this one, and they just become dangerous. I don't know the answer other than better signage and road markings whilst on them. There are more being built so road designers obviously like them. They just need to make the system of driving through them clearer.
 
adam6177 said:
Unfortunately a very large number of drivers seem to think that a right hand lane is ok to go straight over a roundabout.
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First day, first lesson in my ADI training.
Lesson 1. Always say straight ahead, NEVER say straight over at a roundabout because some bright spark will try it
 
Lane 1 - used for either going straight on into lane 3 only or north.
Lane 2 - used for either going straight on into lane 4 or 5 (if wanting to go south at second roundabout) or south.

Lane 3 - Feeder lane for going North only, unless there are 3 lanes marked out on the secondary roundabout.
Lane 4 - This is the curve ball for me - as all exits are dual carriageway, then this can be used to go into the outsdie lane going North or lane 6 or even to go south, however I think it'd only go south if lane 5 was dedicate to go south as well. Personally I'd use this to go straight ahead only.
Lane 5 - either straight ahead into lane 7 or to go south.

Have they just not finished it? Or was it designed by people on day release?
 
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Whichever lane has the shortest queue and then pull across without indicating to the next one. Then again, I do have a BMW ;)
 
adam6177 said:
1,3,6 in the absence of arrows on the floor. Unfortunately a very large number of drivers seem to think that a right hand lane is ok to go straight over a roundabout.
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It is depending on the set up. There's a string of priority roundabouts in Chorley, about 7 or 8 in a row - 2 lanes on, 2 lanes off going through town, right hand lane can be sued for either going straight on or turning right.

In fact, coming off he M61 southbound at Chorley and you should be in the left hand lane to turn right if you are heading to the town centre (although that is marked on the road). Same set up at J19 on the M6 if come off southbound and want to head towards Winsford
 
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