I often need to turn right at this intersection to take the ramp to E17. at the start of the turn there’s 2 lanes but after the turn it becomes 3 lanes. I always use the most outer lanes, but I’ve often had people who will use the inner 2 lanes and that results in some near collisions if I wasn’t as careful as I am.
I tried searching online for similar situations but this is the only place I know that has this and I’m not sure who’s right here, the majority that uses the outer 2 lanes or the few that use the inner 2.
Left lane yields to right lane. So the right lane picks their lane, the left lane adapts to that choice.
In practice that means the left lane should go all the way to the left so the right lane can freely choose what lane they want.
This also makes sense because the two left lanes go towards the motorway, which is where almost everyone needs to go. I understand it might be confusing in other cases, where the two “popular” lanes are on the right, so it sucks that people in the left lane have to go to the “unpopular” lane. But that’s not a problem here.
Wasn´t this exact place posted here a couple weeks ago?
I drive that point nearly every single day. Usually it’s left lane stays left and right lane choses between middle and right. This is because afterwards, left and middle lane go onto the highway, while right lane leaves. So right lane before the turn still has a choice of going onto the highway or leaving
But if you want to be safe on your right lane, first go to right lane after the turn. You have plenty of time to still switch lanes safely to go to the highway
If you are in the most right lane, you end up in the most right lane. If you are in the second turn lane, you end up in the second lane. From the point of view in your google maps link, nobody should turn right and end up in the most left lane (some people might anticipate turning left shortly after, but that would be two manouvers, turning and changeing lanes).
Left lane goes all the way left.
Right lane goes middle, but right goes into right is also OK & safe.
Had a discussion with a few friends.
2 of them say you just stay in your lane, left goes middle, right stays right. 1 says the left goes left, right can choose. I hate that I forgot to ask my driving instructor this….
Based on what I can see, left lane ends up on left lane. Right lane ends up on middle lane. Right most lane on the three way part is an exit lane. They should have made that exit lane inaccessible from the intersection, so there wouldn’t be any confusion.
In general: if you’re taking the outer lane in a turn, you should always end up on the outer most lane. I feel this is just common sense and I have yet to come across an intersection where this isn’t the safest thing to do. Sadly people can’t drive and they just cut you off whenever they feel like it.
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I often need to turn right at this intersection to take the ramp to E17. at the start of the turn there’s 2 lanes but after the turn it becomes 3 lanes. I always use the most outer lanes, but I’ve often had people who will use the inner 2 lanes and that results in some near collisions if I wasn’t as careful as I am.
I tried searching online for similar situations but this is the only place I know that has this and I’m not sure who’s right here, the majority that uses the outer 2 lanes or the few that use the inner 2.
Left lane yields to right lane. So the right lane picks their lane, the left lane adapts to that choice.
In practice that means the left lane should go all the way to the left so the right lane can freely choose what lane they want.
This also makes sense because the two left lanes go towards the motorway, which is where almost everyone needs to go. I understand it might be confusing in other cases, where the two “popular” lanes are on the right, so it sucks that people in the left lane have to go to the “unpopular” lane. But that’s not a problem here.
Wasn´t this exact place posted here a couple weeks ago?
I drive that point nearly every single day. Usually it’s left lane stays left and right lane choses between middle and right. This is because afterwards, left and middle lane go onto the highway, while right lane leaves. So right lane before the turn still has a choice of going onto the highway or leaving
But if you want to be safe on your right lane, first go to right lane after the turn. You have plenty of time to still switch lanes safely to go to the highway
If you are in the most right lane, you end up in the most right lane. If you are in the second turn lane, you end up in the second lane. From the point of view in your google maps link, nobody should turn right and end up in the most left lane (some people might anticipate turning left shortly after, but that would be two manouvers, turning and changeing lanes).
Left lane goes all the way left.
Right lane goes middle, but right goes into right is also OK & safe.
Had a discussion with a few friends.
2 of them say you just stay in your lane, left goes middle, right stays right. 1 says the left goes left, right can choose. I hate that I forgot to ask my driving instructor this….
Based on what I can see, left lane ends up on left lane. Right lane ends up on middle lane. Right most lane on the three way part is an exit lane. They should have made that exit lane inaccessible from the intersection, so there wouldn’t be any confusion.
In general: if you’re taking the outer lane in a turn, you should always end up on the outer most lane. I feel this is just common sense and I have yet to come across an intersection where this isn’t the safest thing to do. Sadly people can’t drive and they just cut you off whenever they feel like it.