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What's the deal with these? Don't see many but we had a new roundabout built near us a year or so ago.
Sort of tan colour inner lane and normal tarmac outer. My first thought was it was there to encourage a bit of lane discipline but no ****ing chance round here! However, there's no consistency in how its used - most just do the T-bone straight across both lanes entitled tosser approach. If I tunr right on it I use the inner tan colour but some people seem to think the darker lane shouldn't be used at all.
Is there a 'design purpsoe' in these things? I guess not using the tan colour allows greatre visibility of cars already on the roundabout? Is the tan lane there just to give wagons a wider berth?
there were lots of these around Coventry a while ago. I couldn't get the hang of them and now I'm scarred by the experience.
Visual distraction.. it makes you slow down.
Tan lane should only be entered by vehicles which are too long to go around the roundabout using the normal Tarmac.
Most of these are built and marked up with a solid white line between the tan and normal Tarmac which no doubt will be worn away now as no one gives a crap about lane discipline so will just go in the tan bit even if they are driving a smart car.
A lot of this stuff is to deliberately confuse you, the less normal something looks the slower you go. Same logic behind shared space, its not inherently safer to mix pedestrians, cyclists and cars, but when you do you get less accidents because it's not normal and people have to figure out what's going on.
Yeh I don't think your supposed to drive on the tan bit unless you need to.
uhmm guess I'm the one driving like an idiot then...
They have made the thing a tiny bit too small in that case, as the 'main' route allows cars to straight line the tan section - should be 30mph approaching it but you often pull out when nothing is visible to then have a Q7 / X5 / lowered civic up yer jacksie.
I wonder if planners / designers ever spend any time at these locations before they build the damn things or whether they are 'standard spec off the shelf'?
I guess you could sum it us as there being no such thing as idiot proof, the world will just produce better idiots.
Presumably the tan circle is there to make the roundabout look narrow and slow traffic down (without blocking HGVs or causing gridlock). Hopefully the idiots will scare themselves almost crashing into people actually driving around it and slow down next time.