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

Posted on 7/24/25 at 2:40 pm to
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
82682 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 2:40 pm to
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I feel like most parking lot exits should be right turn only.


This is a bit dramatic, but I do get a chuckle out of people who insist on trying to take a left in places where there's no possible way it will happen. If they don't sit there for an eternity trying, they'll inch into the road and block all the cars in the right lane while they wait for traffic on the left side of the road to finally have a break they can pull into.
Posted by Monday
Prairieville
Member since Mar 2013
5132 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 2:47 pm to
I plan my routes to not have to make left turns against traffic, unless at a light. My wife thinks I'm psycho for the level of planning I do when I get in the car but it's just a habit now.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
129106 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 2:48 pm to
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And yet, it's often the only way to enter traffic without waiting forever.


Or you turn right

Or you plan your trip better
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
25568 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 3:19 pm to
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WTF? Why would anyone ever do this?


In my little town, if you enter the "main drag" (four lanes) from the street by the McDonald's it will take up to five minutes if you turn left. The traffic is surprisingly heavy and well spaced. You see very few people try to turn left.
Posted by highcotton2
Alabama
Member since Feb 2010
10335 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 3:37 pm to
My wife was driving back from the beach a few weeks ago and turned on the wrong road. Their was a turn lane and she got in it but didn’t feel like she had enough room to make the turn to go the opposite way so she tuned left into a drive leading to a church turned around in the church parking lot and made a right hand turn back on the highway. Cop watched her do it and wrote her a ticket for illegal U-turn. Thought that was pretty petty of him. There was nothing unsafe about what she did.
Posted by Mingo Was His NameO
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2016
36479 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 3:50 pm to
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TIL being a competent driver able to make a left turn makes me a danger to others


Being mentally impaired and operating a 2,000lb hunk of metal is what makes you a danger to others
Posted by Mizz-SEC
Inbred Huntin' In The SEC
Member since Jun 2013
22183 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 3:53 pm to
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quote:
How far out of my way do you think is appropriate for me to need to drive just for you to save 30 seconds?


Irrelevant. You’re a danger to yourself and others when you do that.

It's a failure of the highway department for not installing a left hand turn lane.
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
40956 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 3:58 pm to
Earhart Expressway every day. Instead of going 2 blocks further to the light, they always make the left against heavy traffic when all they had to do was drive 2 more freaking blocks to the light. Multiple spots like that right before the expressway.
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
6975 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 4:20 pm to
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The ones who inch and inch their way into the turning lane until they are beyond the light, then when it turns red and everyone stops they take off. Leaving everyone else stuck at the light


Do you mean they don’t go when they have a chance before it turns red?
Posted by The Torch
DFW The Dub
Member since Aug 2014
27480 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 4:25 pm to
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Do you mean they don’t go when they have a chance before it turns red?


Yes, every time there’s a gap you could drive an 18 wheeler through they move up another inch.

Grinds My Freaking Gears
Posted by xBirdx
Member since Sep 2018
2275 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 4:52 pm to
So your saying to avoid making a left turn from a parking lot in heavy traffic, just turn right, then into another parking g lot , against the same traffic???

Genius!!!wtf…
Posted by Mouth
Member since Jan 2008
22830 posts
Posted on 7/24/25 at 5:02 pm to
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Must be why he had to be an uber driver to make ends meat


meat? Why kind of homo sex train Ubers are you using?
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