GOODNESS me – more roundabouts when the majority of people living in Orange have no idea how to use them or what they are for (Central Western Daily, September 22).
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My understanding of roundabout rules are: All vehicles slow down when approaching the roundabout, giving way to traffic already on it. If safe to do so, enter the roundabout using your blinker to show your intention to either turn.
Left blinker before entering the roundabout if you’re turning left.
If going straight through use your left blinker just as you pass the left-hand turn, and exit roundabout.
If you want to turn right, put your blinker on as you approach the roundabout, and proceed around it putting your blinker on as you pass the straight through exit and then exit off the roundabout to your right.
If doing a full-return to the street you entered the roundabout from, put your right blinker on and proceed right around, using left blinker off.
It's so frustrating to pull up behind a line of cars where the front vehicle is waiting to give way to their right – even when there is no vehicle at the roundabout to give way to.
No, these drivers feel they must wait for that car half way up the road, nowhere near the roundabout.
Then there are those who come screaming up to the roundabout at top speed, beeping their horn at you when you are already half way around it.
The police could sit at every roundabout and go through umpteen books of tickets.