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[–] ___@lemm.ee 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

On my old commute, there was this one really long red light with a u-turn and merging road to the right you could take. Since the merging road was there, a right turn was allowed.

On busy traffic days, you could take the u-turn if the light was turning red and just go and skip it with a right turn. Pretty sure it pissed people off, but it was legal as far as I could tell.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Same thing when there's a really long light with a right-turn lane to a much less busy side street. If you get there shortly after the light turns red just turn right, go partway down the street and make a u-turn, then make another right back onto the main street.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure if I'm picturing it correctly, but this just sounds like a Michigan left, which is how a lot of intersections here are designed (left turn is forbidden, you have to go past, u-turn, and turn right).

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not sure if that’s what they’re talking about or not. The use of u-turn here is weird. The ‘pissing people off part’ makes me think it’s what I usually see people do.

They come up to a red light, they turn right, make a u-turn, and turn right again. Which is basically the same as having driven straight through the original red light to begin with.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

Ah that's different. Can't say I've ever seen anyone do that, but certainly more than a few cutting through parking lots in a similar way and pissing people off.