Queue bypassing using slip roads

[anonymous-user]

Can anyone comment on the legality / morality of using the exit and entry sliproads at a typical 'cloverleaf' junction to bypass queuing traffic on the main carriageway? I suppose it's akin to doing a '540' at a roundabout from the right-hand lane?

Whether anything is gained will usually depend on the state of the entry slip, I suppose...

[anonymous-user]

Glosphil said:

A 540 at a roundabout? That's 360+180 = 1 + 1/2 total trips round the roundabout, so going back the way you came? Probably best from the right-hand lane (if there is one) but would surely confuse other drivers.

There has been some 'discussion' before about the numbers, so let's say: "turning left or going straight on at a roundabout by approaching in the right-most lane and doing a full circuit of the roundabout".

Hope that's clearer....

[anonymous-user]

Thanks JT, my mistake on the 'cloverleaf' description - I did indeed mean the second type!

Happens sometimes on my commute northbound across the Humber Bridge, with traffic stationary at the Barton junction.