Liz wrote: <Here in Melbourne we have a roundabout that also has traffic lights at each intersection! Just to be doubley sure!!!!!!!!!!! :))>
That's not uncommon in the UK. There's a major roundabout of this type a few hundred yards from my home which I have to use for all journeys east or south. In addition to the traffic lights, the traffic lane road markings spiral out from the centre, so if you wanted to go three quarters of the way round, you go to the centre lane and stay there until the lane you want to exit on spirals out. The name of the exit road is painted large several times in each arm of the spiral. It used to be impossible to get on to the roundabout from some of the five feeder roads (different ones at different times of the day) unless you had the courage to throw your car into a space in fast moving traffic which was just about the same length as your car. Approach roads had huge queues and there were frequent accidents. Now, in theory, vehicles on all the feeder roads have an equal chance of getting on to the roundabout (depends on the timing f the traffic lights), and there's only the occasional collision when vehicles change lanes to exit. It carries a large volume of traffic, and the problems usually arise when someone not familiar with it tries to suddenly exit from the centre lane by cutting across the other lanes because they hadn't decided which road they need to exit on before getting on to the roundabout. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
