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Originally Posted by #-3
My understanding, an ideal roundabout
Each road enters and exits with two lanes.
If you enter from the right lane you must exit on the right lane of the next road. No need to Yield because there is no reason for anyone to be in your lane, since anyone in your lane would be exiting before they reach you.
If you enter from the Left Lane, you must yield to anyone already in the center lane of the circle. No need to worry about anyone in the right lane because they have to exit before they get to you. Then you must enter into the center lane.
Once in the center lane you can take the left lane of any exit without yielding, since nobody should be crossing exits from the right lanes, and Anyone trying to enter the center lane must yield to you.
Assuming all directions are equally used the right lanes would take 33% of the traffic load with no yields, and the left lanes would take 66% with 1 Yield
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I may be mistaken but I seem to remember the traffic circle rules as follows (for 2 lane traffic circles). Of all intersections, traffic circles rely heavily on the proper use of signal lights.
Left (inner) lane always has ROW except it cannot take the first exit.
Right (outer) lane always must yield to inner lane but it can skip first exit and proceed to second exit but must exit on the second and cannot continue around.