i get so mad

[flango]

I'm still unsure what happened here are we saying the lady was in the right lane taking the inside line on the R/B to take the second exit at 3 o' Clock and the OP was in the middle lane taking the middle track around the R/B wanting to take the same exit?

A diagram would help as currently my interpretation is one of them clearly has priority, but still not sure where the exits are off this R/B and who's where.

 

[crockers]

Just chill out - you obviously know this piece of road better than most, so use that to your advantage.

Oh, and could you spell check and use a bit more grammar next time!!!!

How does one use a bit more grammar? Did you mean better grammar?

 

[crockers]

I bet when you fill forms in and it asks for your Nationality, I bet you put Scottish? Whilst most English people would put British.

I lived around Ayr for 7 years and people would openly say I'm not British I'm Scottish. I sometimes wish most of the English were as patriotic as you guys North of the border

Had a friend in Cornwall - when she filled in her passport application she entered her nationality as Cornish. She was sent a letter asking for her birth certificate and naturalisation papers - date of entering the UK etc etc... glad someone in passport office had a sense of humour.

does scouse count as english laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!

No..

 

[coupe deville]

back to the OP and sod the grammar as I'm only average has as been pointed out in the past
don't you think that lane markings painted on the road surface are useless as they are usually obscured by traffic and anyone not familiar with the setup has to try and second guess which lane to be in. Wouldn't it be much better if a proper roadside sign was the norm, about 50 meters from the roundabout.
We have the notorious "Stairfoot roundabout" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crYKtl-cAeUon the Doncaster road out of Barnsley which is infamous for causing holdups and confusion [ flanaia1 probably knows it] where Ive seen traffic cops scratching their heads as they look for the correct lane

 

[219]

back to the OP and sod the grammar as I'm only average has as been pointed out in the past
don't you think that lane markings painted on the road surface are useless as they are usually obscured by traffic and anyone not familiar with the setup has to try and second guess which lane to be in. Wouldn't it be much better if a proper roadside sign was the norm, about 50 meters from the roundabout.
We have the notorious "Stairfoot roundabout" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crYKtl-cAeUon the Doncaster road out of Barnsley which is infamous for causing holdups and confusion [ flanaia1 probably knows it] where Ive seen traffic cops scratching their heads as they look for the correct lane

GASP ! I'm out of breath reading that without pause to inhale

If it helps , here is the same passage with some punctuation :-

Back to the OP and sod the grammar as I'm only average , has as been pointed out in the past .

Don't you think that lane markings painted on the road surface are useless , as they are usually obscured by traffic , and anyone not familiar with the setup has to try and second guess which lane to be in ?

Wouldn't it be much better if a proper roadside sign was the norm , about 50 meters from the roundabout ?

We have the notorious "Stairfoot roundabout" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crYKtl-cAeUon the Doncaster road out of Barnsley which is infamous for causing holdups and confusion [ flanaia1 probably knows it] , where Ive seen traffic cops scratching their heads as they look for the correct lane

 

[coupe deville]

GASP ! I'm out of breath reading that without pause to inhale

If it helps , here is the same passage with some punctuation :-

not too sure about the "has as been pointed out before" bit either, is it
has as or as has ?

 

[219]

I'd have said 'as has' .

 

[crockers]

As for roundabouts .................come to Swindon home of the Magic Roundabout.....

 

[wemorgan]

As for roundabouts .................come to Swindon home of the Magic Roundabout.....

ah, yes I'd almost forgotten about it

 

[ringway]

As for roundabouts .................come to Swindon home of the Magic Roundabout.....

Said Zebedee!

 

[flango]

back to the OP and sod the grammar as I'm only average has as been pointed out in the past
don't you think that lane markings painted on the road surface are useless as they are usually obscured by traffic and anyone not familiar with the setup has to try and second guess which lane to be in. Wouldn't it be much better if a proper roadside sign was the norm, about 50 meters from the roundabout.
We have the notorious "Stairfoot roundabout" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crYKtl-cAeUon the Doncaster road out of Barnsley which is infamous for causing holdups and confusion [ flanaia1 probably knows it] where Ive seen traffic cops scratching their heads as they look for the correct lane

Oh I know it well, daughters boyfriend lives at Ardsley. Nightmare roundabout and now has a bus lane right through the middle of it making matters even worse, madness

 

[Frank O' Phile]

As for roundabouts .................come to Swindon home of the Magic Roundabout.....

They've also felt the need for one in 'Emel 'Empstead too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hhmra4146.jpg


The most recent surprise I've has on a roundabout, while in Birmingham last week, was to find a bus parked on it. I was even more surprised to find that it had stopped because there was a bus stop.

Why would anyone put a bus stop on a roundabout? Are there more examples?

 

[CE230]

In Brum drivers hug the roundabout until the last possible moment and then peel off like WWII dive bomber. Lane markings, other traffic and directional signs have no meaning to these people.

Birmingham Council love to put zebra crossings just after the exit of a roundabout effectively blocking the flow of traffic around the island as soon as someone steps onto the crossing.

 

[Ted]

In Brum drivers hug the roundabout until the last possible moment and then peel off like WWII dive bomber.QUOTE]

A bit like this? (A brummy roundabout I used to frequent)

And yes, I know the spitfire wasn't a dive bomber!

 

[jonnyboy]

My take on this is, if I have understood correctly, the OP attempted to "undertake" the woman in the right lane "as he knew she'd cut him up". If he knew this, then surely hanging back, as has been said before, was a better course of action. What if the chap in the left lane swerved to avoid an errant low flying pheasant causing the OP to slow. Then she would have been unable to avoid him....I'm sure he would have been upset.

Actually, all facetiousness aside, I was in an incident myself today. There's a hill I was coming down which is notorious for parked cars on one side, single lane in both directions. There is traffic calming by way of priority arrows at the bottom of the hill. A pavement on both sides (very wide on my side today). Downhill has priority. I followed a Landrover down, he swerved onto the pavement for the two pillocks who jumped the priority, but he kept driving down forcing a pedestrian out of the way. Meanwhile the two "jumpers" are stranded. I too half pulled onto the pavement, not to keep going but to let the two dears through as we were at an impasse. One of them was a BT/Sky/Autoglass van, with the driver on his handheld phone laughing and carrying on, arrogant or what ?!?!? The pedestrian comes up the hill mouthing off. In the meantime I gesture to him politely that he can go ahead of me up the hill before I move off, expecting a courteous thanks, as my way was long since clear. What I got was him, a 60-70 year old bloke in a tracksuit with a stick, screaming and shouting abuse at me (remember I was effectively parked up due to a couple of complete tw*ts on the other side of the road) punching the side of my van etc. His wife then started in on me.....
Anyone with a brain cell could see I was trying to be nice, if I'd been a bad driver I would have just kept going, half on the pavement, forcing him out of the way. I was bloody furious, but I just shook my head slightly. As I moved off I looked in my mirror to see him standing in the street V signing me with both hands repeatedly. Today is one of those days I regret signwriting my van as I would have got out and given him a piece of my mind.

I wish I had, when I got around the corner to site I noticed he'd dented the door skin..............

Not happy.......thankfully it pushed out more or less once I'd ar*ed about taking the door card off.......

 

[Voyager]

forget all this stuffe aboit good english - the guy cannot use a roundybout, innit ?

 

[djflip]

appologies for my confusing post and bad grammer,
i can spell accordingly, I dont seem to function on the key board correctly, therefor my spelling goes to put.
i appologise for offending or annoying anyone, it was not intended.

i may have confused the story, its a complicated situation to explain.

basicly,

2 lanes to turn right with
one maked up right, the other straight over
markings on roundabout show both lanes can go right, one straight over also.

no one realises they both go right
so these people cut lanes in the process on the roundabout, cutting up anyone making use of cutting the ques and using the lane given to you.

 

[davidjpowell]

I get it - so you have the option of the two right hand lanes to turn right, there being a dedicated right turn lane, and a shared straight on or right hand turn. But the drivers in the far right, cut off anyone turning right from the shared lane as they come off the roundabout.

Surely this is all about road positioning - if you position yourself far enough forward you cannot be cut-up, otherwise from the sound of it you need to be far enough back to expect it, and make sure that you are not in someones blind spot?

 

[djflip]

I get it - so you have the option of the two right hand lanes to turn right, there being a dedicated right turn lane, and a shared straight on or right hand turn. But the drivers in the far right, cut off anyone turning right from the shared lane as they come off the roundabout.

Surely this is all about road positioning - if you position yourself far enough forward you cannot be cut-up, otherwise from the sound of it you need to be far enough back to expect it, and make sure that you are not in someones blind spot?

you have the lanes in one...

and no its not the positioning as it makes no difference of where you are, people fail to use their mirrors as they think its only one car turning off.

 

[davidjpowell]

but if your bonnet is in their visual eye - they would have to be pretty dense to pull into you. I suppose you need to make sure that they do not need to use the mirrors to see you,