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Another roundabout question

  • 02-08-2019 10:31pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,040 ✭✭✭


    This roundabout is local to me and I can never be totally sure which lane to use when driving through it in the direction of the red line, onto the Cratloe Road.

    The exit is, strictly speaking, after the 12 o'clock position, whereby you'd normally use the inside lane. There are no road markings for guidance as to what lane to use. Drivers are using both lanes about 50/50.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭forzacalcio


    3rd exit. Inside lane no?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Right hand lane, indicating right, clowns that can’t use this roundabout hold up traffic from caherdavin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    3rd exit. Inside lane no?


    Sweet jesus.. the number of the exit does not dictate which lane you take :mad:


    Anyways.. .. .. by that image I would suggest right hand lane as you quite rightly said, it's past 12 o'clock. But when driving you don't have the obvious top down look, so I'm not surprised so many people take both lanes for it. There really should be road markings.

    That's the roundabout by LIT isnt it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,040 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    That's what I thought, but frequently when I take the inside lane, there's another car beside me on the outside lane exiting onto the Cratloe road and there's always a risk of causing a collision when I exit onto the same road.

    It's one of those awkward roundabouts where extra care is needed as no-one seems sure which lane to use.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    The standard of driving in Limerick city is very poor at the best of times.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,040 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Sweet jesus.. the number of the exit does not dictate which lane you take :mad:


    Anyways.. .. .. by that image I would suggest right hand lane as you quite rightly said, it's past 12 o'clock. But when driving you don't have the obvious top down look, so I'm not surprised so many people take both lanes for it. There really should be road markings.

    That's the roundabout by LIT isnt it?

    Yeah, that's it. It can be a tricky one at times.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,203 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Inside lane for me, indicating right on entry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭testarossa40


    Rules of the Road fyi, OP - pgs 132-135.
    https://www.rsa.ie/Documents/RotR%20BOOK%20for%20web%202019.pdf


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,040 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    I was behind the Guards yesterday and they drove around on the outside lane, but they're not necessarily the greatest drivers on the road anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    The standard of driving in Limerick city is very poor at the best of times.


    Amen to that. Though to be fair it's the same no matter where you go, in all countries. Speaking of roundabouts, the one that grinds my gears is the one you take to head onto the M7/take you to the tunnel near the Crescent, just before Old Crescent rugby club. The amount of times I've nearly been crashed into because people take the right lane to go straight ahead to the other roundabout to go M20 Cork side.. .. .. argh! It's literally even signposted that it's a 12 o'clock exit. Although to be fair, it would make so much more sense if they forced the right lane to be for that exit, and the left for Rosbrien Road/M20 city bound, would help break up the traffic when it's busy there.

    ^ I say left and right because I can never remember which lane is outside and inside! ¬_¬


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,040 ✭✭✭Comhrá




    Diagram on the right seems to cover the situation I asked about.

    ePAIPu3.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Comhra wrote: »
    Diagram on the right seems to cover the situation I asked about.

    ePAIPu3.jpg
    Yup that's it, spot on. Exactly like a clock face:



    Between 6 and 12 (including 12): left lane.
    Anything after 12: right lane.


    So simple, and yet SO MANY FAIL TO GRASP IT. Dunno if it's all their fault though, I'm guessing they were just taught poorly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,040 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Yup that's it, spot on. Exactly like a clock face:



    Between 6 and 12 (including 12): left lane.
    Anything after 12: right lane.


    So simple, and yet SO MANY FAIL TO GRASP IT. Dunno if it's all their fault though, I'm guessing they were just taught poorly.

    A few simple road markings would help greatly where certain junctions aren't completely straightforward.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Comhra wrote: »
    A few simple road markings would help greatly where certain junctions aren't completely straightforward.


    True, but even then a lot of people would just ignore them. As I always say, you can't prevent stupid. That's why I'm so glad I've a dash cam!


    Actually good example of the above, the roundabout at the Raheen Industrial Estate. When you're exiting from the estate, there are road markings there (faded throughout the years but were painted over recently enough) that indicates that left is for 6 o'clock only, right lane for 12 and beyond. Guess how many people heed by these markings when exiting at 12? :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭pippip


    How many lanes when entering and exiting?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭Martin567


    jaxxx wrote: »

    ^ I say left and right because I can never remember which lane is outside and inside! ¬_¬

    It's only very recently that I've discovered this is a thing!

    It's always seemed obvious to me that the left hand lane is the inside lane and the right hand lane the outside. Otherwise you would be pulling out to the inside lane to overtake and then pulling back into the outside lane afterwards!!

    I had to google 'which lane is the inside lane?' before posting this just to check I haven't been wrong all these years and thankfully I'm right in this case.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,544 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    pippip wrote: »
    How many lanes when entering and exiting?

    2 lanes on entry and 1 lane on exit for bottom left (caherdavin) 1 lane in and out of old cratloe road, 1 lane in and out of college, 2 lanes on entry from city centre, 1 on exit to city centre (marked cratloe rd on map)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,760 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    Inside lane for me, indicating right on entry.

    Inside lane indicating right meaning that you acknowledge you are taking the last exit? Who is the outside lane for in your world? People doing an effective u-turn?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,049 ✭✭✭✭L'prof


    It depends on how the junction is marked up in the toad signage op. Sometimes exits that are past 12 o clock are actually marked as straight ahead on the signage. If that was the case I would be using the left hand lane. Otherwise the inside lane on the right


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 El Nacho


    What's even funnier is the driving test centre is just off one of those exits!

    The ariel view is even more damning than the map view. The right hand lane should be used there no doubt.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    El Nacho wrote: »
    What's even funnier is the driving test centre is just off one of those exits!

    The ariel view is even more damning than the map view. The right hand lane should be used there no doubt.


    Hmm. I see your aerial and map views, and raise you.. .. .. 1ST PERSON VIEW! Or is it 3rd person because we're not actually there.. .. .. Anyway it's at 1 o'clock so right hand lane (or.. outside lane is it? I keep forgetting which is inside/outside!) and as you can see, no roadsigns.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,107 ✭✭✭hi5


    The aerial view is pointless (unless your a bird), it's how it appears on the approach sign that matters.
    The approach sign in this case shows the exit is to the right, so you get in the right lane.

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@52.6734173,-8.6491069,3a,15y,60.9h,92.75t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-OgpAWb4xN_VapFBNjJoKw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656


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