Description
Two lanes exit the rotary side by side at this location, and then, with little warning or space, merge into one lane.
The state either needs to put up signs reminding exiting drivers to take turns ("Alternate Merge") or, if that wasn't the intention, let us know which lane is the ending lane, so that drivers know which lane has the right of way.
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steviemk (Registered User)
mlf (Registered User)
Coming from Route 3 westbound, there are three possible exits: right turn, straight ahead, and u-turn. The right lane can take a right to go north on I-95. The left lane can make a u-turn to go eastbound on Route 3. Both lanes are allowed to go straight across the rotary, according to the signs and the paint on the pavement, but then two lanes become one immediately after you turn out of the rotary.
Take, for example, the big rotary near the Capitol as you head down Route 202. If you take the exit to go across the bridge and stay out 202 eastbound, you have the same situation, two lanes merge into one to cross the bridge, but they give you a _lot_ more space before you actually have to merge, and the signs say "alternate merge," which tell drivers that neither lane has the right-of-way, everyone is supposed to take turns. Exactly as it should be in a situation like that.
They need to put the same sign up as you exit the new rotaries on Route 3. If both lanes can go straight ahead, then they need to play nice and take turns when two lanes are suddenly one, not try to run people into the guardrail because they don't want to yield to the guy who's ahead of them in the other lane.