Originally posted by xoc:
Originally posted by ILUVMYX:
[b]When I said they were screwed, I meant that they had to wait another light cycle to make their turn.
As they should. Waiting for a light to turn yellow, just so someone can sneak a left turn in is one of the more stupid things people do on the road. It delays the cross direction traffic from making their left turn on their green arrow, so it solves nothing.[/b]You're still not getting it. I'm talking about lights where there are
no turn arrows. You sit in a left turn lane, at the light, when it turns green you move forward into the intersection and wait for oncoming traffic to be clear before you make your left. At a busy intersection, you wait until the light turns yellow and oncoming traffic is clear, then you turn. Usually a few cars can make it before the light turns green for cross-traffic, but if someone runs a late yellow, nobody gets to go before cross-traffic has the right of way. That's the way most lights are set up in Michigan and other places where there aren't turn arrows.