In Maryland the vehicle in the traffic circle has the right of way. Most of the traffic circles near me are single lane and I only have to worry about traffic approaching from the left in the circle or traffic approaching from the right to enter. While I am in the circle and have the right of way I am always ready to stop if someone entering decides to do it at an unsafe distance. I’m also ready to use my horn to remind them of their foolish idea.
There is one traffic circle not too far away with two lanes. The outer lane is the turn lane for the next exit. The inner lane is to pass the exits until the desired one is reached. At this circle, I’m either going straight (second exit) or entering the highway (third exit). After passing the exit before mine, I use my turn signal to show intent and then move into the right lane.
@Clueless33, when you post a comment you lose control of the conversation just like everyone else. Get over it. If you can’t, then keep it to yourself.
Edit: this post was recorded immediately! Yahoo!! Thanks, moderators for working through the spam attack issue.
That is correct Nevada. As you pointed out, Do not change lane to make an exit or go straight without first checking if it is safe to do so.
The video shows the blue vehicle cutting across lane and bumping into the white car. The lawyer says the white car is liable. This is what caught my attention and kinda freaked me out because he’s a reputable lawyer and I have faith in his knowledge.
Roundabouts work fine for low to moderate traffic. But heavy traffic - nightmare that I avoid regularly. Concord MA Rt 2 and Rt 2a traffic circle which sees OVER 140,000 vehicles a day.
True, and I confess; but the member I responded to was clearly provoking, which he often does, and was hurting the intent of the thread.
The topic is important to me as I want to fully grasp the round a-bout rules outside of the DMV book. When I read from others point of view and their interpretation, I understand better and is why I asked here.
There are no rules outside of the state drivers book which can be different from other states. As I have said before the more you post the more it indicates that you are a poor driver and just lucky you have not had a serious accident.
Yep, you must observe the signs. The traffic circle near me, there is anre eastbound and a westbound exits, at those exits the vehicles in the outside circle must exit and remain in the right hand lane. The vehicles in the inner circle have the option of exiting, if they exit, they must remain in the left hand lane. Whereas the north and southbound exits do not require the outside circle vehicles to exit.
What happens then when the occupant in the inner lane ( left lane ) attempts to exit using the left lane? Doesn’t he not cut across the outer lane ? And if the outer lane occupant is going around, won’t they both collide ?
According to the lawyer from the YouTube clip, the outer lane occupant must yield at all times to the other vehicles to its left. So he can’t freely go around.
Yeah well I got a lecture about the guy in the circle having the right of way. A car was approaching pretty fast and didn’t look like he was going to yield to me. So I braked to make sure. As a defensive driver I don’t care who is right, I’m going to not crash with them. So yell, honk, get in the back seat, take a bus, or whatever, I don’t care.
There are many wonderful cops out there who are patient and kind in helping traffic violators better understand the rules.
I can recall about 3 or so times when I got pulled over and deserved a ticket and didn’t. One obvious one was when I made a right turn on a red light in NYC.
I knew the rules that one cannot make a right turn on a red light but because 99% of my driving is upstate NY, I totally forgot. Immediately I was pulled over by a friendly and courteous police officer and he reminded me of the rules and told me to remove the tint from the car. He noticed my accent and asked if I was Jamaican. I answered yes. He then performed our cultural gesture to wish me well.
I just learned here today that rules about round a-bouts varies from state to state.
Roundabouts suck, I hate them, when they changed a normal intersection in downtown Nashville, I drove around in the circle at least 3 times before I saw the turn off I needed, I was to focused on looking out for vehicles entering it and exiting it, looked like most were confused also, the next go around was a little better, still had to drive around again caused I missed the stupid exit, I new the section very well for many years before they went and changed it… They just added one in the next city over, the road had been their for over 20 years with no issues and for some reason they changed it to a stupid roundabout, and on the community board forum thingy, all the native people absolutely hate it…
Now one section in Nashville where they completely changed everything, all new roads, buildings etc etc, they put a roundabout in it from the get go and I have no issues with it..
My point is, if it is all new construction then build it however you want to, but DON"T change a 20-30+ year old section of road into a roundabout… It IS very confusing to native people that have never seen one before, or have very little experience with them because we have never been taught how to drive in them, and it is very hard to read signs while driving in circles while trying NOT to hit other vehicles…
I did find a lot of videos on them, Google can be your friend…
No, the round about moves in a counterclockwise rotation. The vehicle,in the example given, the outside circle is required to exit and remain in the right hand lane, the vehicle in the inner circle, if they choose to exit must remain in the left hand lane of the connecting street.
However, traffic entering the circle from Wickham Road is not required to exit on Lake Andrew Drive, they can continue on in the right lane to Wickham Road westbound. There is a point where the inner lane from Lake Andrew Drive must cross the outer lane of moving traffic.
Hello, Volvo. The first time you suggested googling stuff for information I actually received and put your suggestion into practice. Still, you often see me come here asking questions that seem rather easy to be answered by the Google search engine and you are right in questioning my return to ask these questions.
I feel compelled to explain the reason for why I choose to ask here rather than to Google stuff on my own.
I’m aware most of the participants on here are much older than me and knowledgeable. I trust in their years of experience with navigating through real life situations. A lot of questions I’d love to ask that are non-car related but out of respect for the community guidelines and the owner and moderators, I try to stay within car related issues mainly.
Next is that Google isn’t always correct. Just ask my doctors when I try to explain to them that I already know what is causing me to feel a certain way because Google says so.
I find that when I ask a question within a community and people respond to either argue their answers or others confirm an answer to be legit, I’m likely getting the best information this way.
Some times I need certain information to be broken down in simpler words for me to understand better and that’s when asking people questions become beneficial for me.
Do you remember the first time you directed me to seek information from my user manual book ( if that’s what it is called )? I couldn’t understand the manual until helpful member Nevada chipped in to give me what I wanted ( the maintenance log which the manual never had ).
So go easy on those who ask questions on a public forum. A lot of us clueless folks are out there hoping members such as the ones on here can help them make life easier.
to wish me well.
