New-ish roundabout on A82
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The roundabout I'm talking about (and in a moment, whine about) is the relatively new - as in around a year or two old - on the A82.
It's too new to appear on google earth, but it's just between Dumbarton and Balloch. If you're leaving Balloch to head into Glasgow, it's the first roundabout you'll encounter after the Balloch roundabout.
I've lost count of the times I've been cut-up on that roundabout when heading back towards Glasgow. There are 3 lanes, with the left two lanes for going straight through. The amount of numpties that sit in the outside lane (let's call them 1, 2 and 3) but swerve across into lane 2 whilst on the roundabout - obviously thinking lane 1 is for turning left. It's clearly marked, and I'm thinking it's maybe something like "local rules", given the amount of people I see do it.
I've come to anticipate it now and just hand back if there's a car to my left - but it grinds my gears! Anyone else encountered the same thing?
Oh, and it's not me that has it wrong.. I'm never wrong
It's too new to appear on google earth, but it's just between Dumbarton and Balloch. If you're leaving Balloch to head into Glasgow, it's the first roundabout you'll encounter after the Balloch roundabout.
I've lost count of the times I've been cut-up on that roundabout when heading back towards Glasgow. There are 3 lanes, with the left two lanes for going straight through. The amount of numpties that sit in the outside lane (let's call them 1, 2 and 3) but swerve across into lane 2 whilst on the roundabout - obviously thinking lane 1 is for turning left. It's clearly marked, and I'm thinking it's maybe something like "local rules", given the amount of people I see do it.
I've come to anticipate it now and just hand back if there's a car to my left - but it grinds my gears! Anyone else encountered the same thing?
Oh, and it's not me that has it wrong.. I'm never wrong
Naw mate I'm local and the design of the roundabout is garbage and too tight so most numpties canna read the lines and go from one to the other and back again.
I personally have seen over a dozen crashes and managed to avoid a few myself as I know the problems.
Terrible bit of road design and the signage isn't too clear although the lines are
I personally have seen over a dozen crashes and managed to avoid a few myself as I know the problems.
Terrible bit of road design and the signage isn't too clear although the lines are
The particularly galling bit is that the shops/offices/housing development that this carbuncle was built for is indefinitely delayed and may never happen at all.
That and the fact that it's all of 400 yards from another roundabout which was perfectly capable of taking the likely traffic...
That and the fact that it's all of 400 yards from another roundabout which was perfectly capable of taking the likely traffic...It's not helped by the poor white line marks. The left hand lane at the end of the DC is left hand lane ONLY around the rb. The right hand lane is either the middle or the right hand lane around the rb. Just about every fecking numpty in the LHL goes straight into the middle lane. I've been cut up there so many times. My missus just goes for the LHL to avoid any hassle. I just leave room to my right to escape from the muppets.
YES!! I go this way everyday and have lost count of the number of times I've been cut up!
Like others say I now presume that if I'm in lane 2 whoever is in lane 1 will cut me up. If they don't it's a bonus!
It's probably not the best designed roundabout but it just goes to show what the general standard of driving is like - dismal.
Like others say I now presume that if I'm in lane 2 whoever is in lane 1 will cut me up. If they don't it's a bonus!
It's probably not the best designed roundabout but it just goes to show what the general standard of driving is like - dismal.
alfa pint said:
The left hand lane at the end of the DC is left hand lane ONLY around the rb. The right hand lane is either the middle or the right hand lane around the rb. Just about every fecking numpty in the LHL goes straight into the middle lane.
That's it in a nutshell.It's happened so often to me that I was beginning to wonder if I'd been reading the road wrong. It's not the best marked roundabout, but it's still pretty clear what each lane is designated for. Like someone else mentioned, it's best to just hang back and assume the car in lane 1 will drift into lane 2.
I'm local to this sh**e roundabout. You should try taking an artic throught it.
Approach straddling both lanes (sorry peeps, you'll just need to be patient!) and continue through roundabout straddling lanes 1&2 then exit on inside lane.
Once, I ended up with a braking contest after exiting northbound onto the bye-pass, after an irate driver thought I was taking the micky through the roundabout. He decided his shiny rear bumper was more valuable than my rusty steel front bar!
I can only think the reason for constructing it with a tight radius (with no shortage of land available) was to slow the traffic in the name of safer motoring. My ar*e!!!
No-one has mentioned the traffic lights on it!
Last week, one light was damaged with the consequence of another set showing both Red and Green at the same time!! FFS! I've never seen that before, anywhere. Kind of sums up the debacle that it is. Another rant over......
Approach straddling both lanes (sorry peeps, you'll just need to be patient!) and continue through roundabout straddling lanes 1&2 then exit on inside lane.
Once, I ended up with a braking contest after exiting northbound onto the bye-pass, after an irate driver thought I was taking the micky through the roundabout. He decided his shiny rear bumper was more valuable than my rusty steel front bar!
I can only think the reason for constructing it with a tight radius (with no shortage of land available) was to slow the traffic in the name of safer motoring. My ar*e!!!
No-one has mentioned the traffic lights on it!
Last week, one light was damaged with the consequence of another set showing both Red and Green at the same time!! FFS! I've never seen that before, anywhere. Kind of sums up the debacle that it is. Another rant over......
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