Bad round about practices

**AndyG** · 29th April 2014, 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by Ratel10mm

I think in Qld. You are required to indicate R, then switch to L as you leave the roundabout, when travelling straight on.

I often just do it the POM way - indicate if I'm turning. I'm not indicating? Then I'm either going straight on - or pretending to be a local!

To do the POm way properly you would be doing the exit from the right lane at about 20 kph while looking to the right. Esp. At the SP or Foodworld ones

**Homestar** · 29th April 2014, 06:57 PM

I'm from Melbourne, so I just drive straight into them and then go which ever direction I need to...

**AndyG** · 29th April 2014, 07:00 PM

Royal Parade & Flemington Rd, whatever the tram thinks is a good idea I agree with.

**Homestar** · 29th April 2014, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by AndyG

Royal Parade & Flemington Rd, whatever the tram thinks is a good idea I agree with.

It's very easy to spot tourists on that one...

. I have a mate that works at the Bob Jane store on the top end of that round about - he tells me about all the accidents that happen there - even now, after the lights have gone in.

**Andrew D** · 29th April 2014, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

if you are in the left lane (assuming a standard 2 lane 4 exit round about)

you indicate right to go straight ahead and then indicate left when you pass the first exit on your left.

this is optional.

the original teaching I got was.

unless you are going to turn immediately left, indicate right as you enter the round about and then after you pass the exit before the one you want then indicate left to exit.

No. Oh dear. This is all arse about. I hope you are joking.

Regards
Andrew

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z45ClSysRQ]Qld Road Rules - Signalling at roundabouts - YouTube[/ame]

**Tank** · 29th April 2014, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by Tote

In NSW the advice from the RTA is to indicate as you exit the roundabout.

Regards,
Tote

Quote: "In NSW the advice from the RTA is to indicate as you exit the roundabout."

The rest of that rule says, "Where Practical",
I just wish people would obey the rule to "Give Way to traffic entering or in the roundabout" instead of stopping and giving way to traffic on their right, ridiculous, Regards Frank.

**Chucaro** · 29th April 2014, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by BigBlackDog

In Tassie the rule is you must indicate if turning and also to leave the roundabout if practicable. We have a lot of really small roundabouts which are just stupid. Seems most people can't manage it even on a normal one. I had a person indicating left on approach yesterday, I didn't like the look of their approach so I gave way, sure enough they went straight (and looked confused that the small guy in the big Land Rover was yelling at them)

IF ONLY THERE WAS A WAY TO SHOW OTHER PEOPLE WHAT YOUR INTENTIONS ARE!

The authorities put roundabouts in some places that buses and trucks just have to go over them

I just wonder if the problem is only in Tasmania or the same happens in other states.

**Chucaro** · 29th April 2014, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by Tank

Quote: "In NSW the advice from the RTA is to indicate as you exit the roundabout."

The rest of that rule says, "Where Practical",
I just wish people would obey the rule to "Give Way to traffic entering or in the roundabout" instead of stopping and giving way to traffic on their right, ridiculous, Regards Frank.

Spot on Frank, the idea of the roundabout is to speed up the flow of the traffic and far to many drivers do not understand it.

**Hall** · 29th April 2014, 07:42 PM

Hmm seems that when I was taught they where using the pom method. Only indicate when turning left or right. Way easier as the other traffic knows exactly what your intention is. Also it seems that there has been over time changes in the rules which has resulted in some motorists not up with the latest rules, me included. Bit daft really all this indicating right and left as you travel in the round about.
Cheers Hall

**Blknight.aus** · 29th April 2014, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew D

No. Oh dear. This is all arse about. I hope you are joking.

Regards
Andrew

Qld Road Rules - Signalling at roundabouts - YouTube

see where Im from they breed em big and the prevailing logic always was.

a round about is a series of continuous right hand turns and you turn left to leave.

if you were going straight through from the right hand lane you didnt indicate on the way in you just indicated out in the straight ahead position BUT you couldnt turn left.

essentially you could only go two ways in the left lane, left (so you indicated left) or straight (you indicated right then once you passed the left turn you indicated left to exit at the second exit)

if you were in the right lane you could only go straight or right so you didnt indicate went in and then indicated left to leave at the second exit and if you were going right you indicated right, carried on past the second exit with your indicator on and then indicated left to complete your right turn.

you also couldnt change lanes in a round about.

fun side note, theres at least 3 roundabouts in australia that are so large or obstructed you cant see all the exits from where you enter

with the way the idiots around here drive roundabouts are a case of I indicate roughly where I want to go, keep an eye on the right side and beat them into the roundabout forcing them to give way to me because

"A vehicle approaching a roundabout must give way to all vehicles already on the roundabout."

works well for me, as generally anything bigger is going to be slower so I'll be out of its way long before anything happens and as a jazz owner turning right from the left lane without indicating found out, 5+t of discovery, dirt and steel trailer doing 10 KPH straight ahead tends to win against 1.not much more t of plastic, crumple zone and bald tyres doing 40 into the tandem.

After all isn't "Might of way" the general rule for the NT...

(and in case anyone is interested the jazz drivers biggest mistake was, in front of about 5 witnesses, saying "I didnt see your trailer")

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