drm567 wrote:chriskay wrote:I can't subscribe to any system/rule which says that a bit of paint turns a safe situation into a dangerous one. I do, of course, conform with paint which indicates a mandatory rule but otherwise I'll use my judgement.
Of course I could get started on mini roundabouts, which I think should be regarded as just a patch of paint to be used as a guidance, not as something to avoid touching at all costs!
I had an extended discussion on uk.transport in March-April '97, (or rather, argument, as my debating style was even worse then). I was asserting that mini-roundabouts only denoted order of use and that any path through the junction was OK, (based on comments from serving traffic officers at RoSPA lectures), to much derision from the uk.transport regulars. Eventually someone a reference to clarify this issue, by saying ...
it is now an offence to drive over a mini-roundabout and a notice of intended prosecution can be served for so doing.
This new regulation came into operation on 1 September 1994.
Information about this is contained in a large document entitled 'Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1994'. The reference to mini-roundabouts deals with Section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, section 1, schedule 1, regulation 10.
At the time of the discussion the Highway Code hadn't been updated to provide clear guidance about this.