Another one of those....Who's right here threads!

highdef

Ok, I have a question about whether my choice of lane is correct on a certain roundabout,

The roundabout in question is the one on Fonthill road, very close to the N4. It's used when exiting from Liffey Valley shopping centre.

In my case, I would be coming from Liffey Valley and I will be taking the third exit, bound for the N4 westbound. Hopefully the attached sketch will explain my scenario a little bit better.

At the bottom left of the sketch, there's a box which shows what lane you should be in depending on which way you intend to travel on the N4. As I'm going to go westbound, I go to the centre lane, travel round the centre lane on the roundabout and exit onto the centre lane of the link road and then take the slip of for the N4. According to lane markings and signage, this seems to be all correct. My car would be the green one with the green dashes showing my route as explained above.

The problem is that a lot of the time a vehicle will come up to the roundabout in the right most lane. This is marked as maroon coloured in the sketch. The car will go round that roundabout in the right most lane but at the turn off point, the vehicle will suddenly pull into the middle lane of the exiting road or even attempt the exit into the left lane. this has caused numerous near misses for me and I'm sure an accident is inevitable at some stage.

So based on the information shown here, am I in the wrong if something happens? And if so, what should I be doing? Obviously i do not want to be the cause of an accident but from what I can tell, I am doing the correct thing as it is and it is a lane discipline problem with other drivers which is the problem.

Cheers

Jame$

I know the junction well. It's a white knuckle ride no matter which lane you are in. I have tried using both lanes and still scared exiting.

Hard to say who is right/ wrong.

I don't think you can say that the right turn lane has to exit into the outermost lane.

Atlantic Dawn

I'd say you should be in the left lane coming off at your exit and not the right.

Mc Love

not another roundabout one!!

highdef

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I'd say you should be in the left lane coming off at your exit and not the right.

So if I should exit into the left lane, can the maroon car exit into centre or right lane? The problem with this is that sometimes as I reach the 180 degree point of the roundabout, I may have a car to my left, in the left lane. They will usually have just entered the roundabout at the 180 degree mark, intending to take the first exit, which is my exit. Or sometiems it will have joined at the 90 degree exit, from my perspective. This will mean that I will be in the centre lane and I will have a car both to my right and to my left. As there are also 3 lanes on exit, I take the centre lane so as to stay in lane. The centre lane still means that i am not in an incorrect lane for taking the slip to the N4 westbound.

i'm not saying anything about being right or wrong.....I just want to be doing the correct thing by entering a 3 lane roundabout in the centre lane, travelling round it in the centre and entering the 3 lane exit road in the centre lane.

homer90

OT (sorry )

But that drawing would make Rolf Harris proud.

dougie-lampkin

It makes no sense to me that the middle lane allowed you to turn right. If your diagram is correct, there's three lanes into the roundabout, and three exits. If there was traffic covering the arrows on the ground, and having never seen this roundabout before, I'd be taking the right-most lane if I wanted to be taking any lane on the third exit, but still checking my rear left corner in case somebody in the centre lane came around too.

Why would you exit off the roundabout in the centre lane if you intend turning left across another lane anyway?

Idleater

That roundabout is a pita! It helps if your car has a bit of power to make a gap, but my advice is if you are aiming for n4 westbound use the middle lane, if aiming for n4 eastbound, use the right lane.

There are actually two marked lanes when you take the westbound n4 slip, the second one is for the right lame users, but as you have found, they tend to cut into the first- hence the advantage of a more powerful vehicle.

OldmanMondeo

Your starting position is correct, the other driver should be in the same lane as you. When you pass the Fonthill rod junction, you should have moved from the most right lane to the centre lane, where you would have hit the other car. then moving off the roundabout to the westbound slip road, keeping to the right on this.

The problem is people will take 75% of your route and the cut across the 3 lanes to get to the left hand side of that slip road.