Imagine doing these with to much wine in your system.

Now its on topic too :-))))
"Ian Hoare" > wrote in message
...
> Salut/Hi Tom,
>
> le/on 08 May 2004 05:21:52 GMT, tu disais/you said:-
>
> >>In France, in general those on the roundabout have priority. They are
marked
> >>accordingly. The "priority to the right" rule has almost entirely been
> >>abandoned.
>
> >I want to make sure I am understanding the jargon. In France, those in a
> >traffic circle have the right of way, correct? The two terms you use are
> >entirely foreign to me. Maybe they are British English.
>
> English, rather than American, you mean. (;-))) GD&R)
>
> Priority means right of way, yes. I've not met your word "Traffic circle"
so
> I have no idea what it is. In France (now the Brits have started removing
> them) they have recently started building what they call "Rondpoint" and
> what the British (who invented them) call "roundabouts". Roads meet at a
> more or less large circle, with a central island. Traffic moves in an
> anti-clockwise (UK clockwise) direction around them. Right of way at them
is
> usually decided by road markings and signs. In general, however, When
there
> ISN'T a road marking, you give way to the vehicle on your right.
>
> However, it is the norm that at roundabouts, right of way belongs to the
> vehicle already on the roundabout, this violating the _general_ rule (when
> road markings don't over-ride it) that right of way belongs to the vehicle
> on the right. If you think about it, traffic circulating widdershins on a
> roundabout will find all the other roads around it on their right.
However,
> I HAVE seen rondpoints in France where not only is there "normal" right of
> way (thus you have to give way to traffic entering), but others where
there
> are traffic lights AND "normal" priority too!!!
>
> While "priority to the right" is a simple rule, it can be a touch - err -
> "academic", when a driveway enters a derestricted through route for
example.
>
> In this area, for example, we have some really tiny roads entering a
"route
> nationale" - the equivalent of an interstate. Well priorité à droite means
> that any car on a side road to my right as I barrel down the main road at
60
> mph can enter the main road _without even LOOKING_ my way. This was a
> fruitful source of road deaths, so now road junctions on all but the most
> minor country roads and in town are prioritised. I would guess that France
> is gradually going over to a system of priority by sign, rather than the
old
> system.
>
>
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> Ian Hoare
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