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Two-lane roundabouts still confuse me a bit. Even the video tutorial in that article has what looks like a problem to me. At 1:06, the pink car in the right lane skips the first exit. How does the orange car in the left lane know it's safe to take the second exit? That's a collision risk right there if the pink car wants to continue counter-clockwise.


It is now considered that multi-lane roundabouts (which permit lane changing in the roundabout) are a bad idea because they have too many collision points. Turbo-roundabout is a much better alternative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout#Turbo_roundabouts


Multilane roundabouts in my part of the US are absolutely terrifying because people don't know how to use them. Accidents and close calls are amazingly common. As a result, I drive out of my way to ensure that I avoid them.

Simple roundabouts are fine.


As a bicyclist, I avoid multi-lane roundabouts like my life depends on it... because it does. Utterly nightmarish experience. This is why I despair every time someone is like "let's build more roundabouts in the US!" No, what you're missing is that all our roads are already too wide and all we get are multi-lane roundabouts, which are worse than intersections. At least at an intersection, I can see that one lane of traffic is already stopped, and know that it would take at least a moment to accelerate before hitting me.


I bike as my primary transportation, and there's literally no chance that I'd dare to bike through a roundabout. Seems like a recipe for serious injury or death to me.

Fortunately, I live in one of the few US cities that really are bike-friendly, so 90% of the time I'm on a bike path that is physically separated from where cars go.


When entering the roundabout, there are two lanes with two different rules.

The right lane is only permitted to turn right or continue straight. So the pink car is not supposed to continue counter-clockwise.

The left lane is only permitted to go straight or turn left. Thus it won't run into the cars on the right lane.

A collision could occur if people don't follow the rules, much like everything else when it comes to driving a car.


The pink car is in the wrong lane if it wants to stay on the roundabout for a later exit. The pink car can take either the first or second exits here. The orange can take the second, third, etc.


The lines on the road are incorrect in the video; the pink car should not have been able to go straight.

Based on the lines used in the 2-lane roundabout in the video in question, all right lane entrances should be forced to take the first exit.

Properly signed roundabouts make this clear. Here's an example: https://www.google.com/maps/@44.1104851,-121.2794584,97m/dat...




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