Roundabouts in Switzerland

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1. Hä?

2. Very true. And a common issue in many countries!

3. Hi. This is a one-lane roundabout. Goodbye.

4. That and people cutting you off are probably my two biggest problems I have here

5. Correct, but there aren’t that many two lane roundabouts around. Also your demonstration features a one lane version.

6. First of all, this is one lane roundabout. 

   But let’s assume there would be 2 lanes. In this case, you have like this: 
   – from the first lane you could go right or straight (you need to choose the first lane as well when you exit the roundabout)
   – from the second lane you could go straight and left (you need to choose the second lane when exit)

   In other countries this is very clear, but in Switzerland there are not so many places like this and because of that the people are not used with them. 

   LE: 
   don’t forget that the right lane has priority. So even if you did all the things correctly, there might be someone who is doing the full roundabout turn on the right lane because they have no clue about how to do it. 
   So, when you exit the roundabout from a middle lane, always check to not have any car on your right side. 

7. this is one lane roundabout as said before. but what swiss drivers suck in is making turns from the most right or left position.

8. From the TCS website: “In general, I enter the right lane if I choose to turn right or continue straight (vehicle B) and the left lane if I wish to turn left (vehicle A).

   However, it is possible to remain in the right lane until the exit (in this case, I enter the right lane at the roundabout entrance).”
   [[tcs](https://www.tcs.ch/it/test-consigli/consigli/regole-della-circolazione/rotonde.php)

   Except in the case of specific indications, you can stay on the right even if you go around the entire roundabout.

9. I feel like you live near me because we have a roundabout almost identical layout to this and the amount of times the person in the left nearly crashes into me because they’re trying to steam roll straight and I’m going straight too.

10. Two lane roundabouts are pretty rare in switzerland so no idea how this is worth making a post.

    The two lane roundabout near me that i sometimes drive by also works perfectly fine. Never seen anyone do it wrong

11. Its perfectly legal to use the left lane to exit straight. Its also shown in signs at a roundabout near me.

12. Unless you Drive in the Canton of Freiburg, Since their planers didn’t give a F**** . Sometimes even the same roundabout depending from Which direction you come the Go Straight line gets switched around. So in Fribourg you always have to check the Ground markings to see if the Straight is left or Right.

13. The actual rule is; use the right lane for the first two exits, use the left lane for the remaining ones.

14. My pet peeve is people not using signal lights. On single lane roundabouts, people often don’t signal when they are exiting nor when they plan to go left.

15. It’s a pain in the ass mostly because swiss only use the turning signal to exit, not to show where they are going when they enter the roundabout.

    You can go and exercise in France, there are about 50 000 of those.

16. That’s why I just drift through any roundabout 

17. I just want to add that cyclists have the right to cycle on the middle of the road when on a roundabout. So if this is a one-lane roundabout, the cyclist can cycle in the middle of the road. The cars cannot overtake them on the roundabout.

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