Did you know that ICBC installs and pays for our traffic circles? It is intent on building them, at great cost to us. Unlike their British counterparts, our roundabouts have too much center island with too little circle laneway. Have you ever observed a city bus trying to get around one? To add to this frustrating challenge, too few of us know how to properly use these traffic circles. Here are the 3 simple rules ICBC has never taught us:
1. The vehicle already inside the circle has the right of way.
2. First vehicle to reach the yield sign has the first right to enter (think of a 4-way stop).
3. If 2 vehicles reach the yield sign at the same time, the vehicle on the right enters first (vehicle on our right always has the right of way).
We’ve all been victim to driver rudeness at these roundabouts, mostly from vehicles not yielding as they enter. Driver ignorance leads to rudeness, and sometimes, road rage. If ICBC is intent on installing these things, it owes it to BC drivers to teach us the 3 simple rules of using traffic circles.
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