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From: ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: left turns
Message-ID: <788@turtlevax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 20:09:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 20:09:56 1985
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In article <605@intelca.UUCP> kds@intelca.UUCP (Ken Shoemaker) writes:
>I'm kinda new to this, so please bear with me...when riding in this area
>it sometimes becomes useful to turn left (suprised?).  However, there are
>a couple of problems with this:
>
>1) most left turns around here have sensors in the street, so they don't
>	change unless something large and metalic is sitting on them.
>	(although I have been able to get some of these to change!)
>
>2) there are some places where there is a left turn lane and a left/straight
>	lane, which lane to use?
>
>In either of these two cases, you usually end up stuck inbetween two lanes
>of whatever, a situation where I personally don't feel too comfortable...
>I suppose one option would be just to get off, and walk the bike through
>the crosswalk, which I also do, even though I am a vehicle.  Anyway, what 
>is the general consensus as to how to approach this problem?

(1) If there are no cars turning left with you, wait until there is a
break in traffic, and go.  You would do whatever you would normally do
when the stoplight is broken.

(2) Eventually you want to end up on the right side, so the left/straight
would be better, although both are legal.  Another way to make a left turn
is to stay in the right lane, cross one street, stop and turn left,
then proceed across the other street.  It's longer, but safer.
-- 

Ken Turkowski @ CADLINC, Menlo Park, CA
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