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The case for almost never turning left while driving
Washington Post ^ | 4/9/2014

Posted on 04/09/2014 7:17:10 PM PDT by Borges

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To: cuban leaf

Many parallel roads track next to highways. And there are feeder roads that run parallel before turning left onto the main highway. A person coming off a major highway must merge with the feeder road, but if there is a turn-off from the feeder that the exiting vehicle wants to take ... bingo bango if not paying close attention.


21 posted on 04/09/2014 7:55:13 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN

...if not paying close attention.


This.^^^


22 posted on 04/09/2014 7:56:44 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Borges

I never, ever, turn to the left . . . for any reason.


23 posted on 04/09/2014 7:56:54 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
There you go...

If your number is up, that's it.

24 posted on 04/09/2014 8:03:57 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Steely Tom; Hugin
yup, must work or they wouldn't do it...
25 posted on 04/09/2014 8:04:11 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: faithhopecharity

I see so many twilight commuters drive ordinary cars with lights off well after sunset, and add to this the ones who text while driving, and well....


26 posted on 04/09/2014 8:07:05 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: thecodont

I’ve gotten used to DRL’s. Great safety feature. I’ve never felt the need to disable mine.


27 posted on 04/09/2014 8:09:15 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Borges

In my neighborhood there is an intersection where there is a left turn lane and you go on the green arrow or later turn on your own with the green light.

I guess there was to many accidents. So now you can only make a left turn on the green arrow.


28 posted on 04/09/2014 8:19:13 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Borges

New Jersey jug-handles to the rescue!


29 posted on 04/09/2014 8:20:04 PM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: cuban leaf
They are acting stupidly for even giving me the option.

Or we just want to see you get hit. Never attribute to stupidity what can be explained by the pure human nature of wanting to see cars crash into each other.

30 posted on 04/09/2014 8:28:31 PM PDT by Darth Reardon (Is it any wonder I'm not the president?)
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To: Hugin

Dunno, I watched the FedEx truck hook a left onto my road this morning


31 posted on 04/09/2014 8:28:36 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Borges

i want to get rid of leftists, not left turns.

F U Nanny State


32 posted on 04/09/2014 8:58:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Borges

why not actually jail’drunk drivers who cause accidents? why not plea bargain away driving violations from fleeing criminals?

they can cut down on this crap by enforcing existing laws.


33 posted on 04/09/2014 8:59:31 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Borges

Don’t worry. When the environmentalists do their study showing that NJ style jug handles consume x% more fuel due to all the extra driving, this idiocy will never go anywhere. It’ll be idiots fighting idiots.


34 posted on 04/09/2014 9:10:13 PM PDT by bolobaby
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To: goldstategop

A lot of those places also have Roundabouts.


35 posted on 04/09/2014 9:12:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Darth Reardon

I confess that when I see it happen, the first thing I think of is, “are they doing it on purpose, hoping to set up a wreck?”


36 posted on 04/09/2014 9:28:53 PM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: Borges
That’s almost 10 times as many crashes involving left turns as right.

The left is just plain bad news, in every way.

37 posted on 04/09/2014 9:31:43 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

ping


38 posted on 04/09/2014 9:35:20 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: Borges

Code of the Teamsters?


39 posted on 04/09/2014 10:03:30 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
And three rights make a left. 3 X 1/3 = 1, ∴ the same number of pedestrians get it, either way.

WoW!

40 posted on 04/09/2014 10:05:57 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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