Please find enclosed some tips regarding your spatially challenged driving skills:
If you’re making a righthand turn on a red, the person to your right making a lefthand turn on a green has precedence for space in the intersection.
It’s beyond idiotic to advance into an intersection when it’s clear you will be stuck there after your light turns red.
When the right lane ends, such as on an 80km highway, the person in the left lane has the right of way. Check your mirrors. There’s likely someone more intelligent than you in the lefthand lane. —That’s All For Now
This article appears in Apr 12-18, 2012.
When you were typing this, you said the title, out loud, in Robin Williams voice. Didn’t you?
nice one http://www.grudge-match.com/Images/adrianc…
thanks for clearing that up for all us Halifax drivers OP. 🙂
http://thedailywh.at/2012/04/12/angry-cust…
Ha Ha Ha – No sound on the Gulag computer so I just hummed the “Jaws” theme.
Think I’ll watch it again, this time with “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
Hay – It’s John Williams Friday>: )
IF you are in a double lane in Newfoundland
the left lane has to yeild to the right & it is often posted so you get it right.
The middle lanes (some times called passing lanes) are temporary on highways, but the lane closest to the shoulder of the road is continuous is the logic behind this according to Nflders I’ve asked.
If I’m making a right hand turn on a red, the person to my right…would be on the sidewalk ! If you are talking about the person in the lane with the green light… unless they are pulling a U-turn will have no effect on me, only the person possibly going straight do I have to look out for, & if that is clear I can safely make my turn…as long as any pedestrians have cleared the crosswalk I have to pass over.
Then there is the rule your are not to enter an intersection unless the way out is clear…..but you’ve confused me on that as well.
Good job !
are you the idiot that i almost smoked with the big fruehoff today? stupid fuck, stay on your own side.
Please clarify the following statement:
“When the right lane ends, such as on an 80km highway, the person in the left lane has the right of way. Check your mirrors. There’s likely someone more intelligent than you in the lefthand lane.”
I read this and think that you may be confused a tad. If you are, you may wish to consult with law enforcement so that they may set you straight.
Actually, let me clarify it for you (NS MV ACT):
“Rule for lane merge:
111A (1) Where two lanes of a street or highway merge into one lane, the driver of a vehicle in the left lane shall yield the right of way to a vehicle in the right lane unless the driver of the vehicle in the right lane is directed by a sign to yield to the vehicle in the left lane.”
If you are behind me and I check my mirrors, I strongly doubt that someone “more intellegent” is behind me. More arrogant maybe….I do agree with the red light point though.
the obvious fallacy already pointed out aside….
“If you’re making a right hand turn on a red, the person to your right making a lefthand turn on a green has precedence for space in the intersection.”
unless they are driving a mammoth truck and cutting the corner way too hard, this shouldn’t ever be an issue… at least in all my years, I’ve never come across this ‘problem’ before. they take the big sweeping outside ‘upper rainbow’ lane and you take the inside ‘lower rainbow’ lane.
Yes, it can happen on occasion…
DOUBLE RAINBOW
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/dcf83410c…
I find traffic bitches confusing because I can’t visualize. Isn’t the person on the right in this case in the perpendicular lane (on the right) to the OP’s car turning across OP’s path to the next lane going in the other direction? Or is OP’s car the one on the right trying to turn left. I don’t see how one could block the other unless one of the vehicles is massive.
Dear Captain Slow:
Your response referred to two lanes that are merging into one. In that case, you are correct: the person on the right has the right of way.
However, OP referred to a situation where *THE RIGHT LANE ENDS* and the left lane continues. This is not a situation where the two lanes are merging equally. The right lane is simply ending, while the left lane is continuing normally.