bazzz

Yup. I have no other authority other than what my driving instructor told me, and that these manoeuvres are not part of the road test in Vancouver. Not that you're likely to get in trouble if you do - people do far worse things all the time.

acer rose

Spot on. OP should be aware that most drivers in BC seem to be clueless as to the correct procedure at roundabouts/traffic circles. This is not helped by the driver handbook. The official guideline says a driver must yield to a vehicle in the traffic circle AND that if two vehicles arrive at the roundabout/traffic circle together, the vehicle on the right has priority (exactly the same as four-way stops). As a consequence, drivers are often checking out the road coming in on the right rather than looking for traffic already on the roundabout (on their left). This is what happened to me tonight as somebody nearly took me out at a roundabout on my way home. Fortunately I have good brakes and it had only just dropped below freezing so it was not yet icy. Be very careful about negotiating roundbaouts here.

shriver9

If you're comming out of a residental road into a highway where the speed limit sign says, for example, 100km/hr you are expected to acclerate almost immediately to that speed, regardless of which lane you're on, or risk getting rear-ended.

In many other countries, a speed limit sign just means " do not exceed that limit". Hence the popularity of cars with engine capacities of over 3000 cc here. The concept of imagining having an egg between your foot and the acclerator pedal when driving ( to save fuel ) is simply not applicable here.