Bohermore roundabout question

DaraDali

Hi All, I drive from Eyre Sq to Liosban every day.

Just wondering what Lane do ye use to go this way in Galway City at the roundabout coming onto the Tuam Rd at the Topaz Station?

It seems to be mixed I see people using the Outside Lane and the Inside Lane.

I included a picture to remind people.

Looking forward to seeing the replies.

Dara

WallyGUFC

Left lane. If only everybody used the left lane there'd be no issues.

Left lane up to 12 o clock. Right lane after 12 is what I learned. Nothing to do with the number of exits. That exit, imo, is 12 exactly.

Tokyo

Assuming that you are coming from the Bohermore road (where your streetview is parked) and want to go onto the Tuam Road, I'd take the left lane. "If taking any exit from the 6 o'clock to the 12 o'clock position, motorists should generally approach in the left-hand lane."

http://www.rsa.ie/RSA/Road-Safety/Education/Road-safety-tips/Using-roundabouts/

Interceptor

Good God, someone bought a Peugeot 206 convertible. I thought they were only a figment of some French lads imagination...

OP, drive where you want - don't hit anyone.

'c

dastardly00

WallyGUFC wrote: »

Left lane. If only everybody used the left lane there'd be no issues.

Left lane up to 12 o clock. Right lane after 12 is what I learned. Nothing to do with the number of exits. That exit, imo, is 12 exactly.

100% correct.

OP, if you see people using the right-lane and taking the Tuam Road exit, they are doing it to skip the queue of traffic in the left-lane. I see cars doing it every morning when I am driving out to work. It nearly causes an accident every time when two cars try to take the one exit, as well as generally slowing down the flow of cars. It's such a hectic junction already, with 5 exits and an entrance to a petrol station, that we could all do without drivers deliberately using the wrong lane.

Eeden

dastardly00 wrote: »

100% correct.

OP, if you see people using the right-lane and taking the Tuam Road exit, they are doing it to skip the queue of traffic in the left-lane. I see cars doing it every morning when I am driving out to work. It nearly causes an accident every time when two cars try to take the one exit, as well as generally slowing down the flow of cars. It's such a hectic junction already, with 5 exits and an entrance to a petrol station, that we could all do without drivers deliberately using the wrong lane.

The problem might be that back several years ago, what people were taught was that they should use the right hand lane for anything other than the first or second exit. Where the exits were (12 o'clock, etc) was not mentioned back then.

Obviously at some point the teaching changed, so perhaps drivers who learned years ago are confused, rather than deliberately using the wrong lane.

Diabhal Beag

Same thing with the roundabout when you turn left from Kingston towards Westside. Nobody uses the left lane going straight ahead (it's perfectly 12 o'clock on the signs).

dastardly00

Eeden wrote: »

The problem might be that back several years ago, what people were taught was that they should use the right hand lane for anything other than the first or second exit. Where the exits were (12 o'clock, etc) was not mentioned back then.

Obviously at some point the teaching changed, so perhaps drivers who learned years ago are confused, rather than deliberately using the wrong lane.

That is a good valid point. And I normally would give the benefit of the doubt to a driver. But since I use that roundabout going to work everyday, it's pretty obvious people use the right lane to skip the traffic.

ENMcD

dastardly00 wrote: »

That is a good valid point. And I normally would give the benefit of the doubt to a driver. But since I use that roundabout going to work everyday, it's pretty obvious people use the right lane to skip the traffic.

I do agree with you there but I'm also with Eeden on this one as I would of learnt about the 1st or 2nd exit rather than before and after 12, I do get confused these days with some of the roundabouts think I need a refresher course while on the topic which lane would you take from the Sean Mulvoy rd to the Moneenageisha Rd (eyecinema way)

Tokyo

Sean Mulvoy Rd to the Moneenageisha Rd - left lane, without question. Though people tend to assume that because there are two exit lanes on the Moneenageisha Rd, that they can use either left or right lane and exit from either, hence the daily near misses there.

barone

taxi driver told me one day, i take the right lane going for tuam road all the time,if someone in left lane hits me or we collide they are at fault, he said he asked the rsa and the gardai as he had several near misses.. he sounded like he was hoping he would get hit tbh.. claimer in waiting..

Iwannahurl

Eeden wrote: »

The problem might be that back several years ago, what people were taught was that they should use the right hand lane for anything other than the first or second exit. Where the exits were (12 o'clock, etc) was not mentioned back then.

Obviously at some point the teaching changed, so perhaps drivers who learned years ago are confused, rather than deliberately using the wrong lane.

The Joyce Roundabout, approached from the direction mentioned by the OP, is actually a good example of the number-of-exits/clock-method conflict.

Motorists using the old and new methods on the Joyce Roundabout, and there must be hundreds from each camp arriving there every day, are almost certain to clash (though not crash, hopefully).

WallyGUFC

Iwannahurl wrote: »

The Joyce Roundabout, approached from the direction mentioned by the OP, is actually a good example of the number-of-exits/clock-method conflict.

Motorists using the old and new methods on the Joyce Roundabout, and there must be hundreds from each camp arriving there every day, are almost certain to clash (though not crash, hopefully).

There's definitely a conflict alright but using the RB everyday, there are also numerous people who just skip the queue and cause needless close-calls (usually taxi-drivers might I add). It's an extremely tight RB too.

Out of interest, I'm assuming 5 is the absolute maximum number of exits allowed on a RB?

Tokyo

Nope - plenty of the bigger ones, particularly in England have seven or more exits. Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris has twelve...

WallyGUFC

mike_ie wrote: »

Nope - plenty of the bigger ones, particularly in England have seven or more exits. Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris has twelve...

Jaysus! I can only imagine the s**t storm if we had a few of them in Galway!

Tokyo

One of these in Bohermore would fix everything.....




It's the Magic Roundabout in Swindon. Drove on it once, and once was enough..... :eek::eek::eek:

Mars Bar

What about coming down Bother Na dTreabh to head over to the Menlo? Dad said it was the third exit so use the inside lane but to me it didn't make sense coz I was using the 12 o clock method. I asked my driving instructor and he said Dad was probably (PROBABLY?!) correct.

Tokyo

Mars Bar wrote: »

What about coming down Bother Na dTreabh to head over to the Menlo? Dad said it was the third exit so use the inside lane but to me it didn't make sense coz I was using the 12 o clock method. I asked my driving instructor and he said Dad was probably (PROBABLY?!) correct.

If it's the roundabout that I'm thinking of - that also lead onto the Headford Road and Terryland - then I enter the roundabout on the right lane. The road out to Menlo is at the 1 o'clock position if memory serves.

Tokyo

Just checked Google Earth for the signage on that roundabout - Menlo is marked as being well past the 12o'clock position, to yeah, right lane.

Supergurrier

Left lane for everything up to including straight on.

A lot of people use right lane for straight on in galway however.

biko

I use left lane there.

wotzgoingon

mike_ie wrote: »

One of these in Bohermore would fix everything.....




It's the Magic Roundabout in Swindon. Drove on it once, and once was enough..... :eek::eek::eek:

I'm confused just looking at that roundabout.

And if I was heading towards Tuam I would use the left land and if I was heading down towards eye cineam/huntsman I would use the right lane.

edit. I just realised todays discussion is coming from a different direction.

Mars Bar

mike_ie wrote: »

If it's the roundabout that I'm thinking of - that also lead onto the Headford Road and Terryland - then I enter the roundabout on the right lane. The road out to Menlo is at the 1 o'clock position if memory serves.

I had a look at the sign on my way in this afternoon and I could see why he was saying the right lane because of the signage. That's good enough for me anyway.

Thanks!

Zubeneschamali

Eeden wrote: »

The problem might be that back several years ago, what people were taught was that they should use the right hand lane for anything other than the first or second exit. Where the exits were (12 o'clock, etc) was not mentioned back then.

Obviously at some point the teaching changed, so perhaps drivers who learned years ago are confused, rather than deliberately using the wrong lane.

If you go back enough years, you get to people like me. I learned in the 80s before that fist-second exit nonsense, which was based on poor wording and a silly diagram in the RoR booklet.

Zubeneschamali

Supergurrier wrote: »

A lot of people use right lane for straight on in galway however.

In Galway, I think people are still following the original donkey tracks, not this modern "tarmac" stuff.