I have the same issue. Basically have stopped posting because of it. It is causing many of my drafts to post before I am done typing. Super annoying.
Stupid Pet Peeves
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Impatient people using the middle turning lane to pull out into traffic instead of waiting 5 seconds for traffic to pass.
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LogGrad98
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I have probably mentioned this before, but people who stop and look behind them constantly when trying to merge. People need to understand merging is about moving FORWARD not looking backward. They are waiting for a completely open lane and as a result they are passing up openings in traffic they could slide into. And in California traffic this is a recipe for disaster. I teach my kids that they look back long enough to find someone to follow, then get in behind them in the flow of traffic, not trying to get in front of someone because it takes forever for that kind of space to open up. If you are accelerating into traffic you can slip in behind nearly anyone with no problem and minimal disruption to traffic. Along with this, use your ****ing turn signal. This drives me nuts.
Even worse are those that use pull into the turn lane, and then drive half a block in the lane before pulling into traffic.
And if the person merging in front of you stops and you are looking backwards, you'll be at fault when you slam into them. Agree it is a poor practice and it causes many accidents.
Edit: In some states, like WA, merging is only the responsibility of the merger. In CA as I recall, both the person on the road and the merger have duties to work together to merge. Some people in WA follow it to a T making it very hard to merge sometimes.
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If you mean the dual-left-turn lane, that's also what it's for, at least in Illinois.
Just git er done. Changing lanes/merging in Utah is a battle against tailgaters. Nearly a contact sport.
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Yup. In Illinois, they tell us it's for left turns going onto the road as well as off of it.
Oh when you need it it's awesome. But people use it sometimes when they could just wait a few seconds and pull right into their lane.
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That's the correct thing to do though. You're talking about a person pulling out of a parking lot or whatever onto a 5 lane road (2 per direction and a middle lane)? Yeah, that's the way you're supposed to do it.
Is that Wasatch Blvd around 113th S?
Darkwing Duck
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Yep, thought I recognized it. Had a friend growing up that lived very close to there, over in the Hidden Valley neighborhood. I used to ride my bike from Bell Canyon Circle, where I lived, to his house. This was one of my routes, but that was early 90s.
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Yes, during high traffic it can be necessary but during low traffic you can wait a few seconds for the road to be clear so as not to make everyone start hitting the brakes. I could go on and on about Utarded drivers, especially since I drive so much out of state and internationally and see how bad we have it here.
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How did you figure that out if you're not familiar with the area?
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Okay, I feel you and I agree. I only typically use the center lane if a) the gap from one direction and the other does not seem to be lining up, and b) there are people behind me waiting to make the same turn.
In honest truth, I usually opt to make a right turn and then either make a u-turn or just alter my route rather than trying to make an impossible left turn in busy traffic.
The thing I really hate is when there are two or three lanes on your side of the road but the back-up is in the right lane and someone kindly leaves a space for you which only serves as a trap because there is traffic going full speed in the other lanes. I've seen too many videos of that being a set-up for an accident that will be your fault.
Darkwing Duck
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Why thank you for asking.
I really just wanted to see if Gameface was right and like I said, I like maps, so went on to Google maps and looked up Wasatch Blvd in Salt lake. That photo obviously is facing east, so I needed to find a straight east/west portion of road. Funnily enough, Google put me on the opposite end of the road, so I trailed it until I got a straight east/west portion, which surprisingly is a very small stretch of that particular road. Did street view, pointed east, and was basically at what I ended up clipping. I was slightly west of where I actually snipped, but could verify the location easily enough with the foliage and mailboxes.
