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From: halle1@houxz.UUCP (J.HALLE)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Traffic Circles - Right of Way?
Message-ID: <994@houxz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 08:36:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 08:36:43 1984
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Everyone is ignoring the absolutely correct answer to the
question of who has the right of way on traffic circles
(or anywhere else for that matter).  NOBODY has the right
of way.  The right (as in correct, not as in not-left) of
way is something to be yielded, not something you have.
Thus the correct law is that vehicles entering a circle
must yield the right of way to those vehicles already on the
circle.  I am pretty sure that this is the law in 49 states.
In Messachusetts, the right of way is to be yielded to those
entering.  Perhaps the law is different there because Mass.
doesn't have circles, but ROTARIES.  (Only semi :-) )