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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
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Azbubu
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Traffic Circle. You're not a GPS.
Quantum Theory
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I hope that is a joke.
Anyway, i don't see much people thinking they are 4-way stops, but almost no-one in SA knows how to indicate correctly @ a circle...
Nope the funny part is that the mini circles dont have solid lines that indicate a stop but a dashed yield line but the k53 says to treat it as a stop.
+1 on the indicators you indicate when you exit the circle not while in the circle.
Hamster
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Because sometimes - especially when students, taxis and old people are with you on the road - stopping and losing those five seconds just makes more sense than potentially getting into an accident.
Some people don't bother looking to their right and just drive. In the past week I've had some drive over a red robot at high speed as we started to cross, I've had a guy completely ignore a stop sign, I've had taxis swinging across the road desperate to get in front of you only to stop 100m later.
5 seconds is not worth an accident.
Frikkenator
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Well no the mini-circles (black on white sign) is a 4/3 -way yield sign (as indicated by the yield sign on the road at these). The big ones (white on blue sign) is yield to traffic from the right.
Mini-circles
Slow down and give way to other vehicles that cross any Yield line before you do.
Proceed in a clockwise direction around the painted island, without driving on it.
In the words of the official legislation:
Indicates to the driver of a vehicle approaching a mini circle that he or she shall yield right of way to any vehicle which will cross any yield line at such junction before him or her and which, in the normal course of events, will cross the path of such driver's vehicle and that the driver shall move in a clockwise direction within such junction and attempt not to encroach on the mini-circle
Roundabouts
You must obey traffic circle rules at the roundabout.
In the words of the official legislation:
Indicates to the driver of a vehicle that he or she shall move in a clockwise direction at the junction ahead and he or she shall yield right of way to traffic approaching from the right, within the roundabout, where such vehicles are so close as to constitute a danger or potential danger.
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agentrfr
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This is a traffic circle. You treat it as a 4-way stop with a circle in the middle.
This is a roundabout. You yield right.
Traffic circles are much more common in Gauteng, and roundabouts are common elsewhere. Joburgers therefore tend to think that every circle is a traffic circle when not in Joburg. Capetonians and Durbanites come up here and irritate everyone because they themselves think it is a roundabout and have never seen a traffic circle before.
This is a roundabout. You yield right.
Traffic circles are much more common in Gauteng, and roundabouts are common elsewhere. Joburgers therefore tend to think that every circle is a traffic circle when not in Joburg. Capetonians and Durbanites come up here and irritate everyone because they themselves think it is a roundabout and have never seen a traffic circle before.
genetic
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:erm: eh?
You do not treat a mini-circle as a 4-way stop. You yield to vehicles who are there before you as opposed to vehicles to the right.
http://www.arrivealive.co.za/pages.aspx?i=2163#sthash.Zdn49mJL.EU2JiGsI.dpuf
Mini-circles
Slow down and give way to other vehicles that cross any Yield line before you do.
Proceed in a clockwise direction around the painted island, without driving on it.
This means that it is not entirely a 4 way stop. If traffic from the right has crossed the yield line before you it is the same as a roundabout. It does not mean that a car to your right has to wait for you to drive first even if it has reached the yield line after you. If it gets a gap before you, you must wait.
Slow down and give way to other vehicles that cross any Yield line before you do.
Proceed in a clockwise direction around the painted island, without driving on it.
This means that it is not entirely a 4 way stop. If traffic from the right has crossed the yield line before you it is the same as a roundabout. It does not mean that a car to your right has to wait for you to drive first even if it has reached the yield line after you. If it gets a gap before you, you must wait.
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Fixeded....
Eaz-e
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I hate it when people get this wrong. They make up there own rules.
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MagicDude4Eva
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Don't know why you guys go on about traffic rules and K53. In Fourways it is quite simple: (1) the biggest or the fastest car wins and (2) irrespective if you are in the inner our outer lane, the person behind you needs to make sure that they don't drive into you 
(the same applies to 4-way-stops as well as traffic lights).
(the same applies to 4-way-stops as well as traffic lights).Stickfigure
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My one friend indicates left everytime he enters a circle (even if he's going straight over or taking the last exit.)
How he hasn't side swiped a car yet I don't know.
How he hasn't side swiped a car yet I don't know.
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Hmmm... Up here in JoziBurg it seems as if each traffic circle (or whatever it's called) has it's own set of rules.
noswal
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Priority to right, throughout. However not everyone knows that. Hence the various posts, opinions, comments and facts.
Budza
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This is a traffic circle. You treat it as a 4-way stop with a circle in the middle.
This is a roundabout. You yield right.
Traffic circles are much more common in Gauteng, and roundabouts are common elsewhere. Joburgers therefore tend to think that every circle is a traffic circle when not in Joburg. Capetonians and Durbanites come up here and irritate everyone because they themselves think it is a roundabout and have never seen a traffic circle before.
People are all confused. The clue is in the freaking sign!
Confidence Wins.
Our town got its first traffic circle last year.
Within the first month, there were at least 2 accidents. The sign has been knocked several times already.
My colleague told me, "I've heard that people in Cape Town don't treat the traffic circle as a four way stop. Is that true?"
Within the first month, there were at least 2 accidents. The sign has been knocked several times already.
My colleague told me, "I've heard that people in Cape Town don't treat the traffic circle as a four way stop. Is that true?"