Let's talk about left turns...again

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Attention Cheeselandialand Drivers, who are probably as good at driving as they are at saying the words "I'm full" I.E. not very good:

When making a left turn, you yield to oncoming traffic going straight across your path. Unless you have a green arrow, in which case the oncoming traffic will have a red light anyway.

I hope you assholes in the white van I encountered are paying attention. After all, you did blow through the intersection and make your turn just as I was entering it, forcing me to slam on my brakes so I wouldn't broadside you. And don't think I didn't notice the dirty look you gave me as you passed.

Uggghhh, van people. Why must they torture me so?

[Kogarashi]

Wow, apparently they're migrating from Connecticut. I see that all the time around here.

[mattm04]

I see that all the time to. Never mind the idiots use use the left turn lane to go straight, but that is a whole other issue.

[mikoyan29]

Or never mind the idiots that are in the left lane and realize they really wanted to go right so they either cut across two lanes of traffic to go right or just turn right from the left turn lane. Then there are the people that aren't at the light that like to turn left right in front of you. Then there are the people that want to turn left and stop before getting into the turn lane. Then there are the people that just turn left without signalling apparently indicating that tapping one's brakes means they would like to turn left. or the people that are in the right turn lane and then cut across two lanes of traffic to turn left.....and on and on....

[Nashida]

Yep, I see that on a regular basis. There's an intersection on the way to school that has a solid green light on both sides, and a turning lane on the other side (coming from the east going west). It's not a protected left, so I'm always stuck slamming on the brakes because some driver jumps into the lane to turn left just as I've entered it, and three more follow him, so I'm sitting there waiting to go straight with cars behind me getting ticked because I won't throw Bleu to the slaughter.

[blas]

We call cutting across several lanes a "Sweep" around here, because so many people do it

I hate when I have the green arrow to turn left and morons turning right from the other way have a red and pay no attention to the line of vehicles turning left right at them, and they STILL pull the "It's my god given right to turn right on red" syndrome.

[sarasquirrel]

on my way to work there is a large intersection. each direction has left, right and straight lanes.

the road im not on, has much more of a distance to cover to make left hand turns, and what the assholes around here do is sit in the intersection to turn. because the distance is greater, they're way past the light.

every single damn day i get a green arrow to go and i cant because there are 10 cars just sitting there.

that was my left hand turn story

[mattm04]

We call cutting across several lanes a "Sweep" around here, because so many people do it

I hate when I have the green arrow to turn left and morons turning right from the other way have a red and pay no attention to the line of vehicles turning left right at them, and they STILL pull the "It's my god given right to turn right on red" syndrome.

Forgot out about that one.

[mikoyan29]

We call cutting across several lanes a "Sweep" around here, because so many people do it

I hate when I have the green arrow to turn left and morons turning right from the other way have a red and pay no attention to the line of vehicles turning left right at them, and they STILL pull the "It's my god given right to turn right on red" syndrome.

That's when the drummer in my car starts beating faster...

Oh yeah, I forgot about the bastards at the front of a line of cars waiting for a green arrow who apparently need to spray their seed all over the car before they go....I hate them too. I really hate them when they wait just long enough so they are the only ones that make it especially at some of the lights around here because they take forever to change.

[Ironclad Alibi]

Back when I was driving to work one of the intersections I passed through had a turn light for the opposite direction traffic, but not my direction. Invariably when my light turned green, and their left turn green turned to a normal green, the cars turning would keep making the left turn. I blew my horn at them many many times. One one occasion when I blew my horn at the left turn light runner, I glanced in my rear view mirror and saw a police car turn on their lights and go after them.

On another occassion, at a different intersection, a car from the right came through the intersection making a left turn and hit a car coming from the left going straight through the intersection. Talking to turning driver, a teen girl, afterwards, she said didn't know that the straight through traffic had the right of way and she should have yielded to the other car.