JingleBellRock wrote:
I give you the roundabout after the exit of the M3 junction 1, London-bound. Clearly marked, those lanes and always have been, albeit that they've recently changed the markings. In fact they changed them to reflect what most people were doing anyway. On which point people have generally switched, and it is very annoying.
So, three lanes, left is marked as left turn. The left is immediate, so bugger off.
The next is straight on, for A240 Staines.
And the last, A240 Kingston. It is also a right turn to wherever else you can go.
So what happens? Occasionally a spectacular idiot will use the left lane to carry straight on, and they're clearly insane. But more often those in the second will plough straight on (and it is fairly straight, but clearly marked, with words and such, at each point, so they're not reading), in effect cutting across from A240 Staines-Kingston. And they do so with such utter obliviousness that you have to either get the boot down or just wait and see what they're going to do. It's mildly complicated - the A240 Kingston after the slip road lane then splits into two, and people may also have been in that lane to go right. But it's marked.
You've just almost described getting onto the westbound M602 from Eccles at the Eccles Interchange.
The two major differences are: 1) the middle lane is marked left-or-straight-on and 2) at least three quarters of people plough straight on from the leftmost lane across the junctionflyoverabout - thereby not just cutting you up as you go across, but actually driving at right-angles across people in the middle lane heading onto the motorway.
The morons in point 1 have usually
queued for at least 100 metres to do this, meaning that people like me will shoot up the near-empty middle lane anyway, passed this queue and then quite correctly going left, trying their very hardest not to have a crash but not really minding because a new car on some other completely inept cunt's insurance/house would be quite nice really. And my (car's) horn is
awesome.