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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The one off highwood going towards the dome is made paritcularly bad becuase for some reason they have the outside lane not exiting right away which the people entering probably expect.
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I'm not quite sure what you mean by "the outside lane not exiting right away", but yeah, it's very confusing in general because:
- two of the branches off it are each two-lanes (26th Ave and Dartmouth Rd branching to the south),
- one of them is one-lane in and out (Dartmouth branching to the north), and
- the Highfield Road
entrance is two-lane but the
exit is a single lane.
You can use the right-hand lanes entering at any point to leave at the next exit of the circle (and in fact to go from NB Dartmouth to SB Highfield you
must use the right lane, because it's a one-lane exit from a two-lane entrance), but there are traffic movements that seem super screwy if you're used to a regular two-lane roundabout all the way around. The key thing to remember about this roundabout is it's not two-lane all the way around: between the exits at SB Dartmouth and Highfield Roads it's only ONE lane.
This causes a very ####ed up movement from NB Highfield to NB Dartmouth, because NB Dartmouth is
also a single lane exit. When you approach the roundabout from Highfield Road both lanes are signed as allowing "left" turns, but by that they mean a >300° turn around the circle to go onto SB Dartmouth Rd toward 25th Ave,
NOT ~235° around the circle to go onto NB Dartmouth. That's the "
straight through" movement, which you have to do from the RIGHT lane (purple in the diagram below), not the left. The only movement you're
supposed to do from the left lane of Highfield (blue in the diagram below) is go all the way around the circle and exit (in the left lane) onto SB Dartmouth Road.
What this all ultimately ends up causing is a mandatory lane-change in the middle of the train tracks for traffic coming from NB Dartmouth and exiting NB Dartmouth; the red line in the diagram below:
They HAVE to cut off the traffic from Highfield and 26th! And they have to do it in the middle of the circle! It's
STUPID.