Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts

[danbrotherston]

Given the number of roundabouts in this region, there really shouldn't be much of an increased collision risk here.  It's not like these are a new thing for us.

You'd think that.  Using the roundabout today, travelling north on Homer Watson, woman in a minivan also travelling north on Homer Watson (far left lane), waited for traffic to her left to clear, but rather than continue to merge right around the roundabout, she goes left into oncoming traffic. I decided at that point to go carry on around the roundabout and sure enough I met her carrying on in the wrong direction. Blasted my horn but she just left the lane I was in to attempt get back onto Homer Watson north. What an idiot. Hopefully she'll stay off road, looks like she may have been from Stratford being she went in that direction on the highway.

Honestly, I question whether anyone who would turn left at a roundabout should be allowed to drive at all--and I don't mean, they should learn.  It's design implies it's purpose, then there are signs, and then there is the behaviour of (virtually) everyone else.  If none of that is sufficient, well, driving is not a right, and I believe some people lack the capacity to do it safely.