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What are some weird traffic traditions/customs in your city?
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:20 pm
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:20 pm
I've observed the following:
Los Angeles - In most intersections in the city, left turning cars have to yield. It's very common for 2-3 cars to squat in the middle of the intersection and make the left turn after the light turns red. I just don't understand why there aren't more protected left turns in the city of LA.
SF Bay Area - It's okay for cars to drive on the shoulder, which is usually also a bike lane, for more than a block in order to pass traffic going straight to make a right hand turn.
Los Angeles - In most intersections in the city, left turning cars have to yield. It's very common for 2-3 cars to squat in the middle of the intersection and make the left turn after the light turns red. I just don't understand why there aren't more protected left turns in the city of LA.
SF Bay Area - It's okay for cars to drive on the shoulder, which is usually also a bike lane, for more than a block in order to pass traffic going straight to make a right hand turn.
This post was edited on 9/7/16 at 4:21 pm
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Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:21 pm to Street Hawk
NOLA
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:21 pm to Street Hawk
Not being able to drive in a straight line
Signed
BR
Signed
BR
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:22 pm to Street Hawk
The general rule in TX is that the right lane is for passing only.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:23 pm to Street Hawk
NY area: Jump the light when turning left. Once the light turns green, gun it. oncoming traffic is used to it and will wait 2 seconds to allow a left turning car from opposite end to pass in front.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:23 pm to Street Hawk
Shreveport-People straight up run red lights. Not get caught in the intersection, I mean run them 1 to 4 seconds after the light has already turned red.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:23 pm to Street Hawk
Durango, CO: Trying not to hit the 500 pedestrians crossing every intersection while driving through downtown
This post was edited on 9/7/16 at 4:32 pm
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:24 pm to upgrayedd
I no longer live there but Maine seemed to be the most courteous drivers, especially to pedestrians.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:25 pm to Scooba
The fact that a yellow light means GO FASTER and a recently turned red light is considered a yellow light in New Orleans city limits. I tell anyone from out of state that visits NOLA to count to three before going on a green light. They wonder why and then call me after their trip to thank me.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:25 pm to Street Hawk
Pittsburgh: 1st car at light turning left goes before opposing traffic going straight enters the intersection. Actually called a Pittsburgh left.
This post was edited on 9/7/16 at 4:27 pm
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:25 pm to Street Hawk
quote:The Friday Afternoon Phenomenon.
What are some weird traffic traditions/customs in your city?
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:26 pm to Tigeralum2008
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NY area: Jump the light when turning left. Once the light turns green, gun it. oncoming traffic is used to it and will wait 2 seconds to allow a left turning car from opposite end to pass in front.
I'd allow this in New Orleans at some intersections usually involving Magazine St. Otherwise, traffic is a real cluster caused by left turners.
A corollary is if you are a left turner and don't pull out into the intersection to allow others to go around you can die in a fire.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:27 pm to Street Hawk
Just something I noticed while working in NOLA this summer, jack arses who are too impatient and think they are more important than to wait in traffic use the exit/entrance lane around the Causeway to Power exits to pass the line.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:27 pm to Street Hawk
Not in my city but something I notice when traveling to Southern Mississippi specifically around the McComb area. It's a blinker issue. People there use their blinkers to show what the car ahead of them is doing. Example, you have three cars in a line on a two lane road (Car A, B, C). Car A is turning left, so Car B puts on their left blinker, while car C slows down even more because he thinks car B is turning. Car A turns left and car B turns off his blinker and continues strait. Drive me fricking crazy!
Also a Louisiana statewide epidemic, hazards in the rain!
Also a Louisiana statewide epidemic, hazards in the rain!
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:27 pm to Street Hawk
Baton Rouge drivers are unable to simul-turn, and absolutely love to come to a complete stop before making a right turn, absolutely love to stop traffic to wave someone into a parking lot, and the best one for some reason love to stop 6 car lengths back from the car in front of them at a red light. The compound effect of which is multiple cars miss the light cycles each time causing extra bad traffic.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:27 pm to Street Hawk
In BR on the Florida/Foster intersection, no one, and I mean no one turns on that merging lane that merges with the Florida traffic.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:28 pm to Street Hawk
Stay alive on the 285, it's pretty much a shite storm of frickery
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:28 pm to Street Hawk
quote:
Los Angeles - In most intersections in the city, left turning cars have to yield. It's very common for 2-3 cars to squat in the middle of the intersection and make the left turn after the light turns red. I just don't understand why there aren't more protected left turns in the city of LA.
Protected left turns are a lot less efficient than permissive or protected/permissive.
Around here, the common move is to get in the left lane at the beginning of a 10 mile uphill climb in a car that can't even do the speed limit going uphill.
This post was edited on 9/7/16 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:29 pm to Street Hawk
Madison MS - Passing people using turn lanes (the passers use them). The first car that gets the red light usually runs it. Joggers run in the road as opposed to on the sidewalks, backs to traffic with headphones in.
Posted on 9/7/16 at 4:31 pm to upgrayedd
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The general rule in TX is that the right lane is for passing only.
fricking this
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