{"id":8260,"date":"2012-02-20T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8260"},"modified":"2012-02-20T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T00:25:00","slug":"and-another-thing-about-roundabouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=8260","title":{"rendered":"And Another Thing About Roundabouts…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone was asking why the Highway Code (HC) shows a car coming off in the right-hand lane when turning right.<\/p>\n

Just to clarify, this<\/strong> is the picture the HC uses to explain roundabouts.\"Highway<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t show a car turning right (the green arrows) coming off JUST<\/strong> in the right-hand lane. It shows a car turning right using EITHER<\/strong> the left- or right-hand lanes.<\/p>\n

It does not<\/strong> show a car merely using the right-hand lane to exit, nor does it advocate this as the preferred default. It is simply showing that you can use either\/any<\/strong> of the lanes if there is more than one. It doesn\u2019t say anything about \u201cif it\u2019s safe to do so\u201d, because that should be taken as read.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because on an unmarked roundabout where a single lane entry carriageway leads off to a multi-lane carriageway, this is exactly what you would do<\/strong> \u2013 if cars in the left-hand lane were going slower, for example, or perhaps if you were getting ready to turn right further on, then you would legitimately exit to another lane on that carriageway. I suspect that the complaint has something to do with learners and lane discipline \u2013 however, the HC is something learners are supposed to adhere to, not something that needs to be dumbed down for them<\/p>\n

Of course, if you had multi-lane entrances  to the roundabout, and\/or road markings, then you\u2019d use the appropriate lane suggested by the markings (the HC says that, too).<\/p>\n

As I often have to explain to my pupils, there is the basic roundabout procedure \u2013 but road markings can change all that.<\/p>\n

Another thing I see a lot of is instructors not teaching their pupils to drive properly, but forcing them to do everything in the left-hand lane \u2013 even when they NEED the right-hand lane almost immediately after some junction. They then have to indicate and change lanes, often causing others to slow down to let them in \u2013 which is just about OK on their tests if they do it properly, but a guaranteed fail if they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I teach mine to plan ahead. If you\u2019re going to turn right, then right again 200m further on, bloody well get in the right-hand lane for the first<\/strong> turn so you don\u2019t have to force everyone to stop 25m before the next one to let you in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone was asking why the Highway Code (HC) shows a car coming off in the right-hand lane when turning right. Just to clarify, this is the picture the HC uses to explain roundabouts. It doesn\u2019t show a car turning right (the green arrows) coming off JUST in the right-hand lane. It shows a car turning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}