Editor: Over the last few years, Langley has been blessed (or cursed, depending on your point of view) with a number of traffic round-a-bouts.
Unfortunately, they didn’t come complete with a drivers’ manual.
There is one simple rule regarding rights-of-way when approaching a round-a-bout — wait your turn.
I don’t know how many times I have come to the entrance of a round-a-bout to find one or two or three drivers simply following the driver in front without even considering the fact that there may be a car in another queue waiting to enter.
The rule, as I understand it, is that each car waits its turn.
That means to not only look to the left to see if someone is coming your way, but look to the right as well, to see if someone is waiting to enter the circle.
If there is, let them go ahead of you. In other words, don’t just blindly follow the car or truck in front of you.
A few months ago, this paper published a letter from an irate driver who was thoroughly offended when she entered a round-a-bout and found somebody coming in from another lane who cut her off.
All she was doing, she said, was following the car in front. She sure didn’t appreciate what the guy did.
Sorry, lady. He was the one in the right. Whereas you were adhering to the same misinformation that too many drivers in Langley seem to have adopted, by thinking they have the right-of- way, by simply following the driver in front without waiting their turn at the round-a-bout.
Evan Brett,
Langley