Dundalk Northern M1 Exit Southbound. Which lane to take for roundabout?

Gotham

You are on this motorway heading south west, that's the bottom lane of the top two roads you see in the picture.
You come off the slipway pictured (yellow stripes on it) heading toward the roundabout. You want to travel on the road heading south-west and the slipway you are on has two lanes - which lane do you move into to approach the roundabout?

Left, or Right?



Coordinates: (54.037918,-6.377741).

I used to travel off this exit every day for years, one thing I noticed was that nearly everybody was in the left lane in the slipway when they intended going on the road to the south-west, whilst I used the right lane. If someone can please explain to me who is correct here? I would like a valid citation of the evidence.
Note: There is a poll above.

conzy

I would use the right hand lane. A lot of roundabout with only two exits explicitly state this now as it improves throughput. generally if your exit is passed the 12 o clock position i tend to use the right hand lane.

shoot me :pac:

_Kaiser_

I'd use the right lane myself as it's past the 12 o'clock position - EXCEPT there's no other exits except a complete 360 (unlikely) and it looks like there's only 1 lane at the far exit(??), meaning someone is going to get cut up.

If there were 2 lanes on the exit though, then definitely the right lane.

Bad design really.

Yawns

It would have been easier to have implemented to lanes to enter the roundabout and 2 lanes to exit on the far side with both lanes merging about 100 - 200 meters up the road. Bad design. Personally I'd be in the right hand lane as it stands.

GSBellew

I personally use the right hand lane and move to the left hand lane after the first exit on that roundabout. I've never been in a situation there where traffic has been busy enough for it to be an issue.

Now the three lane Ballymac roundabout just down the road,that's a better example of poor design in my opinion.

T-Maxx

Either

Kenny Logins

T-Maxx wrote: »

Either

Yep, that's how it looks.

Although I would use the right lane..

MarkR

Round about signs will often depict that as being straight ahead. If you couldn't see where the exit was due to the curvature of the road, I might take the left one. If I knew it to be past 12 o'clock, I'd go in the right lane. And I wouldn't trust any one else on the roundabout. Could go either way, and that's a recipe for some time in the panel beaters.

_Kaiser_

MarkR wrote: »

Round about signs will often depict that as being straight ahead. If you couldn't see where the exit was due to the curvature of the road, I might take the left one. If I knew it to be past 12 o'clock, I'd go in the right lane. And I wouldn't trust any one else on the roundabout. Could go either way, and that's a recipe for some time in the panel beaters.

What I sometimes end up doing on smaller roundabouts that are really only suited for one lane because of the angles, but marked for 2 lanes, is straddle both as more often than not the guy beside/ahead of you will cut the corners/bends anyway.

Yes I'm bold