Matt from Denver writes, “What’s driving you crazy? The roundabouts on Lowry Blvd make no sense. Some lanes are allowed to go forward and others are forced to turn. The ones that are forced to turn are usually not the ones with more traffic such as the eastbound lane at Lowry and Yosemite. The far-right lane is forced to turn but there is more traffic going east so why aren’t both lanes allowed to go straight to help with the volume of traffic?”
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The tricky part about roundabouts in metro Denver is there are so many different types and ways to get through them. Some have one lane, others two or three. Some allow for turns, others don’t and that adds to the overall confusion of drivers who use them.
I went out to drive the roundabouts and I found them to be fairly straight forward, unless you are in the right lane where you are forced to make a right turn at the first exit. It is like that for all the right turn entrances at Lowry Boulevard and Yosemite Street.
The left lane allows drivers to either make an immediate right or continue through the circle and leave at any of the exits. The right lanes, all of them, must take the first right after entering the roundabout…