The city of Carmel should be forced to remove all of its roundabouts and replace them with sane, traffic-light controlled intersections. At its own expense.
Either that, or it needs to really improve the signage. Case in point. My wife was going through the roundabout pictured below this morning, in the outside lane, and some idiot woman turned into her from the inside lane.
To add insult to injury, the cop responding told her it was her fault because you are supposed to turn right immediately if you enter the roundabout from the outside lane. He also claimed that she entered the roundabout “too soon”. (Say what? The other driver was in the inside lane!) And he gave her a warning instead of a ticket because she wasn’t aware of that.
Well, of course she wasn’t. Look at the fucking signage! Look at the paint on the road! (Yes, this picture is from September 2013, but I just went through there on Sunday night and there has been no change.)
Looks to me like folks in the outside lane have the option of turning or going through. Looks to me like people in the inside lane are supposed to go around and change lanes if they mean to turn, not turn from the inside lane.
Looks to me like the idiot in the inside lane who hit my wife should have changed lanes earlier if she was planning to turn onto Shelborne.
If anything, this looks like a no-fault accident to me. Or fault chalked up to the city of Carmel because of poor signage.
Funny thing is, I went through the same set of roundabouts with a friend Sunday night and commented that I wondered when someone was going to try to turn from the inside lane when someone in the outside lane was continuing around. Who knew.
NO MORE ROUNDABOUTS. The state of Indiana needs to ban any and all further construction of these hazards to navigation.
(Have you been through that abortion of an interchange that’s being built at Meridian and I-465 North? There was no reason why that couldn’t have been designed in a similar fashion as the recently-replaced one at Allisonville Road, except that the one at Allisonville Road is in Indianapolis where we actually care about road functionality, and the one at Meridian Street is in Carmel where their mayor has roundabouts on the brain. If he has a brain, which is debatable.)