re: Drivers that will wait to try and turn left against heavy traffic.

I don’t know your specific example, but I’m team less risk. Take a right and take the next U-turn.

Trying to get across and take a left can take longer than going down and making a U-turn anyhow.

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Most people are inconsiderate assholes. More news at 11

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Agree. Left lane campers need their tires shot out.

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Oh I know the law.

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You don’t even have to know the law to know what he posted directly contradicts his original statement

That’s just reading comprehension

I didn't try to get you, I asked a question because you don't even seem like you understand what you're trying to say.

You'r trying to interpret a law that makes something you do illegal so that it sounds legal and it't not.

You['re not the only one who thinks that way. It happens every day where people block the center lane waiting for a chance to accelerate, doing so illegally, because they don't understand the purpose of that lane.

It's a two way left turn lane that allows motorists the opportunity to cross, not temporarily park in waiting for a chance to turn right from.

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It gives you up to 200' to operate in the lane. Show me where in the law that says you cannot be stopped. Spoiler alert, it's not in there. So the only attempts at interpretation here are on you.

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Autism really is a fascinating condition

Using the center turn lane as their own personal on ramp is just moronic. I've seen people go 50-60 yards or more and almost head on into cars trying to make a left turn. It's like no one else exists but them.

Usually when you know you’re wrong, you crawfish and deflect. You’re really digging in here, pretty interesting.

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like to exert my dominance. My wife will be a pussy like you and hang a right and find another place up the road to turn around. Meanwhile, I'll be miles down the road headed in the direction I need to go while you figs are bleeding from your soft tacos hunting a u turn spot.

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bullshite, you will still be waiting as drive past you.

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Except that one is legal and one is not

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I'm looking and have found nothing stating that it is illegal to cross a lane of traffic, enter the middle "turning lane" and then merge into the opposite lane of traffic. Grok does say in Louisiana you can not use that middle turning lane to accelerate and merge, but you can use it to cross one side of traffic and wait for the opportunity to merge into the other.

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In Louisiana, the use of a center turn lane (often called a two-way left-turn lane) to cross traffic, enter the lane, and then merge into the opposite direction of traffic is generally legal, provided specific conditions are met. Here's a detailed explanation based on Louisiana's traffic laws:Louisiana Law on Center Turn LanesDefinition and Purpose: Under Louisiana law (specifically, Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:76), a center turn lane is designated for vehicles to prepare for and make left turns or U-turns from either direction of travel. These lanes are typically marked with double yellow lines (one solid and one dashed on each side) and are intended for temporary use to facilitate left-turn maneuvers.
Permitted Use: You can legally enter a center turn lane from your direction of travel to prepare to merge into the opposite direction of traffic, as long as:The maneuver is safe and does not impede other traffic.
No signs or road markings prohibit the specific maneuver (e.g., "No Left Turn" or "No U-turn").
You yield to oncoming traffic and any vehicles already in the center turn lane.

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When they could easily turn right and make a u-turn in an adjacent lot.

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I see this often when there is a u-turn allowed a couple hundred feet to the right or even less far away (and more further down if they for some reason can’t over to the first one).

Sometimes the same drivers will also have to stop in the middle of the openings of what are considered narrow medians and only to be crossed in that direction when you can cross completely without stopping. They then block the drivers with the right away turning left into that location and the drivers turning left into location on opposite side of street (coming from original drivers left with the latter). In most narrow medians unless they have a golf cart sized car a part of the rear or the front of their car also protrudes into the thru lanes of cars continuing straight in both directions and can become an obstacle for them.