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From: richl@daemon.UUCP (Rick Lindsley)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: left turns
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Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 03:13:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 03:13:41 1985
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Summary: 

The first move I make is to take the full lane and signal, so that
nobody is confused about what I am trying to do.

The second move is to try not to be the first guy in line if I can help
it, because of those sensors. If a car pulls up behind me while I'm
waiting I let him pull ahead of me and I take the position behind him.
(Some drivers will look at you strangely but none have ever complained!)

If I have sat through a full cycle of lights and not gotten the green
(or the cycle does not seem to be changing) and the intersection is not
a complicated one, then I treat the intersection as I would one with a
broken signal -- I turn left when it is safe to turn left. I have been
told by a police officer that this is perfectly acceptable as long as I
do it safely. (Of course this may have been acceptable to *him*, but
perhaps the next officer won't feel that way; I don't know. But it does
have the benefit of making sense.)

If the intersection is a complicated one (more than 4 streets or a
peculiar cycle or anything that makes me nervous like a high number of
trucks) then I go the pedestrian route.

Rick Lindsley
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