Driving imbecile's next lesson

For those out there who don't know this; The inset lanes
provided for intersectional turns (the lane on the inside
with the curved line that tells you to ENTER at that point)
are NOT meant to be entered when you get all the way to
the traffic light. Doing so cuts off people who are already
in the lane who are under NO obligation to let you in.
Two days ago some goofball blithly decided to enter the left
lane at the last minute, and nearly hit me. You enter the lane
where the lane opens, often over a hundred yards from the
intersection.

No argument. Just a note that you are lucky. They missed. I've seen
idiots in the travel lane of a 4 lane with a middle turn lane, turn
left across all the lanes to get into the grocery parking lot. Or at
an intersection where the right lane goes straight across or turns
left, and the left lane is left turn only, when the "person" in the
left turn only lane goes straight across the intersection jogs right,
cutting off the traffic that is both turning left and going straight
from the right hand lane. I think they are like squirrels along the
roadway.... they're suicidal.... and it just happened that that time
they survived.

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:41:19 -0400, RichA > wrote:

>For those out there who don't know this; The inset lanes
>provided for intersectional turns (the lane on the inside
>with the curved line that tells you to ENTER at that point)
>are NOT meant to be entered when you get all the way to
>the traffic light. Doing so cuts off people who are already
>in the lane who are under NO obligation to let you in.
>Two days ago some goofball blithly decided to enter the left
>lane at the last minute, and nearly hit me. You enter the lane
>where the lane opens, often over a hundred yards from the
>intersection.

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Unless it's a location I use often, I find the same situation. One in
particular, on the way to my house, I must remind everyone which lane
to be in at the intersection. Seems just about everyone who crosses
there get's stuck in the wrong lane before they realize it.

Then there are the "killer" lanes. a center left turn lane where
traffic from both directions wanting to make a left turn pull into the
same lane in a heads on approach..... The result is often messy.

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 08:07:14 -0400, ZombyWoof >
wrote:

>On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:41:19 -0400, RichA > wrote
>something wonderfully witty:
>
>>For those out there who don't know this; The inset lanes
>>provided for intersectional turns (the lane on the inside
>>with the curved line that tells you to ENTER at that point)
>>are NOT meant to be entered when you get all the way to
>>the traffic light. Doing so cuts off people who are already
>>in the lane who are under NO obligation to let you in.
>>Two days ago some goofball blithly decided to enter the left
>>lane at the last minute, and nearly hit me. You enter the lane
>>where the lane opens, often over a hundred yards from the
>>intersection.
>>
>In my neck of the woods there is a dashed line that turns solid at the
>beginning of those lanes (right or left). You're supposed to be in
>the lane prior to the start of the solid line as crossing a solid line
>is a ticketable offence. What ends up happening to me a lot is I get
>stuck in those lanes when I wanted to go straight as there is usually
>little to no warning that it is going to become a turn-only lane.

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w/BF Goodrich Comp T/A Radial 225/50ZR16