U-Turns

[centermid7]

^ so in other words you really don't know much about it but could not pass up a contrived opportunity to bash our American friends.

Cheers!

[HHTel]

^ so in other words you really don't know much about it but could not pass up a contrived opportunity to bash our American friends.

Cheers!

No American bashing from me. There are many articles including articles in the US about the difficulty Americans have with roundabouts and the reasons why are quite valid.

Seems some of you can't avoid being truculent.

[Terry]

...............With roundabouts it is much the same, Thais cannot comprehend them, at the big one on Pala U road and By Pass Road, Thais stop on the roundabout, I can't understand this as they don't stop anywhere else......................

Yep - this particularly pisses me off
Why can't somebody teach local drivers that in sensible places, you ALWAYS give way to the traffic already ON the roundabout.
Apart from which it's bloody common sense
If you all stop on the roundabout you get gridlock.............

There have been several occasions on the above mentioned roundabout when I've almost rear ended a twat who suddenly brakes whilst letting somebody ON to the roundabout..............

In the end it becomes a free-for-all and that's when the accidents happen.

[dundrillin]

For the umpteenth time you give way to traffic
coming from the right. In my experience the roundabout on 112 works well most of the time, motorbikes excepted of course.

[StevePIraq]

Terry you make me laugh "Apart from which it's bloody common sense" this is Thailand (Ting Tong Land) when does common sense come into it?

[Terry]

I know - after 24 years of driving here you'd think I would know by now

[JamesWest]

Welcome back, James.

No change then!

Nor have you, as your continued predilection for irrelevancy demonstrates.

ok, i just laughed out loud with that one, so i am good now.

the two boy fighting in the school yard are done and i have found they usually go on to be friends and beat the crap out of all the other kids.

so bring it on. its just going to roll off my back from now on.

ok, back to U-turns

[HHTel]

I'm guilty of a predilection for irrelevancy!!! I don't think so. My posts are usually relevant to the particular thread I'm responding to. Anyway, life goes on.

[lindosfan1]

The French law used to to be traffic coming on to the roundabout has priority, however this is slowly changing, which is very confusing. The other weird one was, you would be going down a main road but traffic coming from a side road has priority.

[bsdk1960]

I don't hope JamesWest and HHtel will meet each other in a roundabout or a u-turn,bad things could happen

[HHTel]

An interesting thought. Certainly wouldn't be boring!

[STEVE G]

The French law used to to be traffic coming on to the roundabout has priority, however this is slowly changing, which is very confusing. The other weird one was, you would be going down a main road but traffic coming from a side road has priority.

They still have that giving way to oncoming traffic from a side road here in Luxembourg and I've seen it in Germany as well. It's only in residential areas and it's used to slow down traffic around housing. It's lethal if you don't know about it, I was behind two British bikers who almost got creamed when someone pulled out of a junction, (they were going too fast anyway)!

[Homer]

I think the problem with roundabouts is they're designed and approved by engineers for use by people far less rational and with poorer spacial reasoning skills. Engineer brain means while in a moving vehicle, you can glance at another moving vehicle, judge the distance between and speed differentials of the 2, predict if or where the two paths intersect, then act appropriately.

[hhfarang]

Speaking of roundabouts and U-Turns, here's an interesting traffic nightmare... I bet some of you have driven through this and survived...

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[HHTel]

That's a really crazy junction. Where is that?