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Nov 4 2011, 03:45 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Nov 4 2011, 03:43 PM) For a while it wasn't, but since they re-painted that dotted line showing the left lane from London Road feeding into the two lanes going past the fire station, it is now perfectly clear. Next time I'm cycling around the RH I'll have a look.
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Nov 4 2011, 03:46 PM
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QUOTE (xjay1337 @ Nov 4 2011, 03:37 PM) I think it's perfectly clear. My Mum none the less (60-something year old woman) who will do exactly what I'm saying; jump the queue and push in. While I am a passenger and she goes to do this I will have a go at her, to which she says "Don't tell me how to drive, I've been driving for blah blah years" - To which I say "well, that as may be, but you clearly forgot how to obey the rules of the road". And you have forgotten the rule about not distracting the driver.
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Nov 4 2011, 03:52 PM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Nov 4 2011, 03:47 PM) Now we've cleared that one up everyone will carry on doing exactly as they did before!! Probably. QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Nov 4 2011, 03:46 PM) And you have forgotten the rule about not distracting the driver. I am quite a distracting passenger. Although between talking on the phone (rare but does happen), smoking and playing with her plastic bag on the gearstick, there's little opportunity for any actual distractions. When I used to be a passenger (not with her I should add) I would take off my trousers which certainly caused a few close calls and a few red faces!
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Nov 4 2011, 03:56 PM
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OK what about this one then? At a roundabout with 4 roads converging.......... If you are turning left you indicate left. Obvious If you are going straight on you don't indicate until you are approaching the exit. Obvious. BUT..... If you are turning right do you indicate right as you approach and go round the roundabout and then indicate left as you approach the exit OR do you not indicate until you signal left as you approach your exit? In other words do you or do you not indicate as you go round the roundabout but only left as you approach your exit?????
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Nov 4 2011, 03:59 PM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Nov 4 2011, 03:56 PM) OK what about this one then? At a roundabout with 4 roads converging.......... If you are turning left you indicate left. Obvious If you are going straight on you don't indicate until you are approaching the exit. Obvious. BUT..... If you are turning right do you indicate right as you approach and go round the roundabout and then indicate left as you approach the exit OR do you not indicate until you signal left as you approach your exit? In other words do you or do you not indicate as you go round the roundabout but only left as you approach your exit????? I would indicate right around the roundabout and then left at my exit. Whether that is legal or not (probably is the right thing to do anyway) but if not that's what would make sense. Unless of course you're supposed to indicate left and then turn right. To really add to the challenge you could drive with your hazard lights on. That'd really confuse people.
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Nov 4 2011, 04:29 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Nov 4 2011, 04:13 PM) Nah XJ I'd have nicked a Corsa and gorn across the middle. Like the PG tips advert; ended up something like this QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Nov 4 2011, 04:04 PM) ps your artwork contains some artistic license! I thought it was a bit medical. It started off as a duck with a broken leg but ended up like that. QUOTE My mum/your mum is not the best person to take advice from. I would rather take the long route round than have an electronic female tell me what to do. ce are you talking about my mum again?
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Nov 4 2011, 05:26 PM
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Some roundabouts are confusing take, for example, jn 15 M4.
Leaving the M4 Westbound, the 2 lane exit ramp splits into 3 lanes at the roundabout. Normally you would think left lane=left, middle lane=straight over and right lane=right.
But most traffic leaving the M4 here is to go right onto the dual carriageway (A419) to Swindon and Cirencester. So both middle and right lane tend to have traffic turning right (as you would not want to rejoin the motorway again so the middle lane is not really seen for that purpose perhaps). But it is the left lane that splits into two, not the right. So some people (who know the junction) and who are turning right, are initally in the left lane (to move into the middle lane when it splits). And the road markings do not help.
I have seen many car drivers obviously see the extra (middle) lane at the last minute and to beat a queue, move into it from the right - to the blaring of horns from cars in the left lane who see themselves cut up - as it is their lane which is splitting into two, not the right lane.
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Nov 4 2011, 06:07 PM
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QUOTE (xjay1337 @ Nov 4 2011, 02:42 PM) and I would simply slow down/speed up in order to keep alongside the vehicle so it is not able to come across. Childish and immature, yes. Does it prove a point, which is my *point* - well I'd think that person wouldn't do that again - dangerous? Not really. I am sorry XJay but that is really poor driving - you don't know if someone has made a genuine mistake or not. I don't expect you to just jump out of the way, but speeding up and slowing down is dangerous, necessary and just going out of your way to be a nuisance, which is worse than the actions you are having a go at others for doing.
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