Lane Discipline

[Issi]

Scenario.

A 3/4 mile long two lane road with two roundabouts roughly 200m apart.

The left hand lane continues into town, the right hand lane stops at a set of lights for right turns into an estate, the road then reverts to single carriageway.

Most mornings there are people driving up the right hand lane and then with metres to spare are diving into the left hand lane, causing the people in the LH lane to brake, which then has a knock on effect for all those behind them.
Which is why the LH lane is often busy and crawling, while the RH lane moves at quite a pace.

Is driving up the right hand lane before darting in to a space -

a). A good use of the available space and making progress, even though the lane is clearly marked 'Right Turn Only'.

or

b). The actions of a Knoob, who can't be ar5ed to queue like the rest of the people going into town.

Your thoughts please.

[onyx39]

the latter.

[andy-xr]

This really pisses me off whenever I'm going over to Manchester. Mottram Moor, up the hill towards the M67. It's bad enough with 3 sets of lights that you can be stuck on the hill (like last week) for about 15 minutes anyway, without nobs going up the right hand lane, despite arrows on the road saying turn right, then getting somewhere near the top and cutting in. It's obvious there's a queue, you saw it from half a mile back, dont be a wanger

[real4star]

B)

[james_gt3rs]

C) Turn right at the roundabout then go all the way around it to turn left

[robinessex]

Buy cheapest, s/h, bigest diesel engined 4x4 you can find. Remove front bumper. Replace with huge RSJ. Now see if the prats try to barge in !!!

[Matt UK]

james_gt3rs said:

C) Turn right at the roundabout then go all the way around it to turn left

Ah, good ol' 'cheeky but legal'

[chrisw666]

james_gt3rs said:

C) Turn right at the roundabout then go all the way around it to turn left

This is the right answer. No bad driving, no laws broken, less queueing.

[RockyLad]

chrisw666 said:

This is the right answer. No bad driving, no laws broken, less queueing.

Plus I've never noticed anyone get angry by this, they just happily give way as that's what they're supposed to do

[Vipers]

james_gt3rs said:

C) Turn right at the roundabout then go all the way around it to turn left

Exactly what I do, often.

[Issi]

The last roundabout is 2-300m from the lights and where the road changes from 2 lanes to 1.

Bloke today in the Civic, came alongside me on the roundabout in formation, (i was heading straight on), and then booted it and darted up ahead to pop in front of me just before the lights.

twonk.

[onyx39]

Issi said:

The last roundabout is 2-300m from the lights and where the road changes from 2 lanes to 1.

Bloke today in the Civic, came alongside me on the roundabout in formation, (i was heading straight on), and then booted it and darted up ahead to pop in front of me just before the lights.

twonk.

I would have just accelerated at the same rate and stared him out whilst he rear ended what ever was in front him

[Johnnytheboy]

The other side of the coin is a junction/roundabout a mile or so before another one where lots of people turn right. Then you get the folk that come on at the first junction/roundabout and immediately get over to Lane 2, then get irritable if undertaken.

[StottyZr]

robinessex said:

Buy cheapest, s/h, bigest diesel engined 4x4 you can find. Remove front bumper. Replace with huge RSJ. Now see if the prats try to barge in !!!

You'll appreciate this

Edited by StottyZr on Friday 15th March 18:19

[Issi]

onyx39 said:

Issi said:

The last roundabout is 2-300m from the lights and where the road changes from 2 lanes to 1.

Bloke today in the Civic, came alongside me on the roundabout in formation, (i was heading straight on), and then booted it and darted up ahead to pop in front of me just before the lights.

twonk.

I would have just accelerated at the same rate and stared him out whilst he rear ended what ever was in front him

Would have liked to have done that, but he was in a nippy Civic Type S, and I was in a diesel Citroen. no contest really.

[seeby]

StottyZr said:

robinessex said:

Buy cheapest, s/h, bigest diesel engined 4x4 you can find. Remove front bumper. Replace with huge RSJ. Now see if the prats try to barge in !!!

You'll appreciate this

Edited by StottyZr on Friday 15th March 18:19

That's the way to do it !! I like the way most of the drivers get out of their cars as if they,ve done nothing wrong .

[Bonefish Blues]

chrisw666 said:

james_gt3rs said:

C) Turn right at the roundabout then go all the way around it to turn left

This is the right answer. No bad driving, no laws broken, less queueing.

Sticks neck out until someone with proper knowledge turns up, but I don't think it is legal to do this intentionally.

Trots off to Speed, Plod et al...

[ging84]

this is pretty normal
people are presumably at the first round about both lanes are marked for straight on, then only after is the outside lane marked right turn only, in which case people have just 200m warning to get into the correct lane, which maybe heavily congested.

It does annoy me how people who get uptight about people doing this sort of thing on the assumption that the people are 'jumping the queue' when they may have never driven that road before and are trying to get into the lane they need at the earliest opportunity

[Monkeylegend]

chrisw666 said:

james_gt3rs said:

C) Turn right at the roundabout then go all the way around it to turn left

This is the right answer. No bad driving, no laws broken, less queueing.

Not if you read the question again carefully.

[james_gt3rs]

Monkeylegend said:

Not if you read the question again carefully.

Reading it again I don't understand why the roundabouts are even mentioned...