Re:What are roundabouts? The safety benefits of these circul...
by CalRobert on Thursday October 26, 2023 @07:41AM
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Right, and when the junction design forces you to take the route you already decided on all of those decisions are moot. You are forced to decide _before_ you're mid-junction with people going all sorts of different directions. When you take the wrong offramp do you back up on to the freeway?
The toll road example is fair, though I don't know the particulars of this in Australia.
I recently drove from Normandy to Amsterdam and halfway through Belgium I took the wrong exit and ended up adding 20 minutes to the drive. But it was fine.
I don't buy it. Ending up forced to take an unexpected exit in a city triggers a lot of things for me and none of those are pedestrians:
- which lane should I be in for the quickest way back?
- what are the rules on the road I'm turning into? (this may be extremely not obvious if you didn't remember the sign for the road you weren't supposed to be on)
- does this road have restrictions that mean I actually can't be on it?
- is this going to send me on a toll road? (the joys of ending up on a single lane bridge which requires coins to cross and there's 5 cars already queued up behind you)
It's less of an issue for country roads, but being in the wrong lane in a place like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/H8p1n8dcJ9D8epDG6 may mean you're doing a 30min detour to the same intersection and you'd better get it right this time!