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Old 18-10-2009, 21:51   #61
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Re: Eastgate Roundabout Annoyance

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i was always taught - by several people including my advanced driving instructor at the time, that if you come up to a roundabout and want to turn left (or any other turning up to and including the one at a 12 oclock position) then you use the left lane - but anything after the 12 oclock position relative to where you are (and at the eastgate roundabout asda exit is actually at about the 1 oclock position)then you use the right lane and indicate and move left immediately after passing the exit before - which i believe is marked originally as your 'red lane'? the highway code book which someone showed the illustration from earlier is correct for a road that goes straight on from your relative position - whereas the asda turn off isnt in this case. I always go to the inside lane and then the left lane and most people around me seem to as well

Of course Lynn, your advice was correct, however this turn off is not beyond 12 o'clock. Ok. I used geometry of under 180 degrees to explain this point ... same difference .. but get out your set square and tell me that this is not under 180 degrees or before 12 o'clock.

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What your advisors failed to tell you was that there are many busy marked roundabouts around the UK that are exceptions to this rule due to consideration of, heavy or not, inflowing traffic from the left.

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Old 18-10-2009, 23:09   #62
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Re: Eastgate Roundabout Annoyance

I see this is a close call.

I like in the picture, orgional and Katex's (Same pic) there are 3 cars all in the right hand lane, wonder how many where going onto hyndburn road.
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Old 18-10-2009, 23:26   #63
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I see this is a close call.

I like in the picture, orgional and Katex's (Same pic) there are 3 cars all in the right hand lane, wonder how many where going onto hyndburn road.
That will have to be another thread for one of your wonderful mysteries Mr D Just like where are the 3 cars in the right hand lane you mention.. oh hek, been spirited away by aliens LOL. Sorry .. just a bit of fun.. honest. x

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Old 18-10-2009, 23:58   #64
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Re: Eastgate Roundabout Annoyance

That big red mark in the sky over Accrington is giving me the heebie jeebies
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Old 19-10-2009, 00:09   #65
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Ok ... changed it to Pink just for you ...not that I really see you as a pink person though :-

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Old 19-10-2009, 12:20   #66
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That will have to be another thread for one of your wonderful mysteries Mr D Just like where are the 3 cars in the right hand lane you mention.. oh hek, been spirited away by aliens LOL. Sorry .. just a bit of fun.. honest. x
Im glad you enjoy my mystery threds.

3 Cars in the right hand lane on the roundabout.
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Old 19-10-2009, 12:42   #67
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It's the red line that you should be following on - because the rule of left hand lane for the first and possibly second exit is right, right hand for everything else. It's clearly the third exit off the roundabout so you should use right.

If you're going the opposite way you should be in the lane that you are going into i.e. left if you're going into the left lane beyond the roundabout and right if you're going in the right lane beyond the roundabout. If the roundabout wasn't there you are basically staying in the lane that you need to be in. This applies when the road is the direct continuation of the road you are on (only with a roundabout obstructing it).
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Old 19-10-2009, 17:49   #68
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This one could run and run as all drivers seem to approach any particular hazard differently. I believe that the best way of dealing with a roundabout is to treat it like the face of a clock, the approach road always being 6-o-clock. Any junction prior to 12-o-clock should be approached from the left or nearside lane, any junction beyond 12-0-clock, the right or offside lane. Always works for me.
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Old 19-10-2009, 19:01   #69
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It's clearly the third exit off the roundabout so you should use right.
Is it


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Old 19-10-2009, 19:42   #70
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Arndale Car Park = 1
Union St = 2
King St = 3
Hyndburn Rd = 4

Even more reason for it to be the right lane then!

I was thinking of King St being one way but you're right it does go both ways.
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Old 19-10-2009, 19:53   #71
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The red line on the map should IMHO switch from right lane to left lane as you are going under the viaduct
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Old 19-10-2009, 20:47   #72
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Consider if the roundabout was not there, youd be going straight on to asda.
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Old 20-10-2009, 11:13   #73
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The red line on the map should IMHO switch from right lane to left lane as you are going under the viaduct
Very true.
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Old 20-10-2009, 13:30   #74
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Re: Eastgate Roundabout Annoyance

I am a right hand lane user for this one. I had an old aquaintance who was an advanced police driving instructor who always used the right hand lane here. My reasoning is that you are going more than 2 junctions round the roundabout. Before the roundabout was there, it was always a right turn onto Hyndburn Rd. Widening the approach, calling it Eastgate and plonking a big roundabout there does not make it any less of a right turn...
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Old 20-10-2009, 13:35   #75
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My big roundabout bug bear is the one near the Dunkenhalgh. If you're coming from Accrington and going across to the traffic lights you should get into the lane that you want to be in at the other side of the roundabout. It's a continuation of a road.
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