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Originally Posted by pope04
So few people seem to know this traffic circle commandment:
Traffic entering into the circle must yield to traffic already in the circle.
Last year, I had to travel through a series of new traffic circles in Signal Hill to get my kids to school. It was an adventure, to say the least.
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I know the ones you're talking of..
I know I trash people who can't drive in them, but its partly the fault of the size of them...
People don't understand that (in a situation where 2 people stop at the same time) unlike a 4-way-stop, the person who stops first does not have the right of way.. its always the person who would have the right of way if they were in the circle...
Problem is, that some of the circles (suchs as those new ones behind west hills, and the one by my house) are so tiny that people either don't have time to indicate their intentions or leave their indicator on for too long and fool others. Then, people have no idea who goes first, and it always seems that the person in front of you (who you know full well has right of way) decides to improperly give way to the wrong person who just happen to be coming off the highway, and now everyone and their dog is going and getting the wrong message that they always have the right of way...
bah!
Drives me craaaaaazy!!!!
The new one in Valley Ridge is a prime example... if you come off east bound #1 and go under the bridge, when you get to the circle, there are 2 entrances. Yours and the traffic coming from Westbound #1. They are 2 feet from one another... East bound guys have right of way... but west bound guys ALWAYS go.
