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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: GraculusGraculus Date: Apr 18, 2008 23:40
"Tony Dragon" btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:GaCdneJdNvypvZTVnZ2dnUVZ8sbinZ2d@bt.com...>>
>> The other increasingly common trick is cutting corners when turning
>> right. Not a little bit, but often half a car length or so. Anyone
>> waiting at the stop line is usually treated to abuse and gestures as the
>> moron who is too lazy to turn the steering wheel looks up for the first
>> time and finds the side road full of vehicle.
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> You might add, the ones who have to pull into the centre of the road to
> turn left, with larger vehicles it may be necessary, but not with your
> average car.
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Or try this one. Right turn out of side turn into busy single carriageway A
road. During current roadworks, they have made a central refuge lane
specifically designed to allow you to do the right turn in two stages, so
you don't need a gap both ways at the same time (a rare occurrence). The
central refuge lane is long, but not very wide. The idea is to pull into it,
turning right, so you are then parallel to the traffic you are trying to
join. Then you wait for a gap and pull into the lane completing the turn.
It's amazing how may people don't turn on the first half of the manouvre, so
end up half in the refuge, and half still hanging over the lane they've jsut
crossed, so they force the traffic approaching from the right to stop quite
unnecessarily.
Anyone familiar with the 2-way turn lanes in the middle of some US streets
will know how they work and what I'm on about.
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