Roundabouts

A roundabout is a circular intersection where two or more roads meet. Vehicles travels in a counterclockwise direction. Vehicles entering a roundabout must yield to traffic already in the roundabout.

Benefits of roundabouts

• All vehicles need to slow down to use a roundabout.
• With lower speeds and fewer points of conflict between vehicles, they reduce the potential for serious crashes and injury.
• Yielding at the entry of a roundabout takes less time than waiting for a gap in traffic at a stop sign.
• Fewer delays reduces fuel consumption and improves air quality by reducing emissions.
• There is an area for landscaping in the central island of a roundabout.

Using a roundabout

These tips will help you understand how to drive through a roundabout.

Approaching the roundabout

• Slow down.
• Keep to the right of the splitter island.
• Pay special attention to people walking and cycling who may be crossing the roadway.
• Yield to people cycling and traffic already driving through the roundabout.
• Enter when there is a safe gap in traffic.
• Follow the lane designation signs and pavement markings.

Driving in the roundabout

• Keep to the right of the centre island and drive in a counterclockwise direction until you reach your exit.
• Do not stop inside the roundabout, except to avoid a collision.

Leaving the roundabout

• Use your right-turn signal.
• If you miss your exit, continue around the roundabout again and then exit.

How to Navigate the Roundabout on Carrick Drive - Motorists - YouTube

How to Navigate a Roundabout as a Cyclist - YouTube