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when the idea is baked into how your whole traffic system operates, you don't have these issues. People turning right have the same right-of-way as people going
by zebrafish 10y ago
when the idea is baked into how your whole traffic system operates, you don't have these issues. People turning right have the same right-of-way as people going straight through an intersection. People turning left must wait for all traffic to clear from the opposing lane before turning.
As for someone to your left going straight thru the intersection... you, turning right, must yield to those going straight. However, there is not always traffic coming straight through the light. If someone on the perpendicular street turns right instead of going straight thru, you may turn right from your lane into their lane because there is a pause in traffic flow coming through the intersection.
That probably doesn't make much sense but the bottom line is that when everyone knows the rules and everyone observes them, right on red is mostly painless.
- dec0dedab0de 10y agoPeople turning right have the same right-of-way as people going straight through an intersection. No they don't, They must come to a complete stop and yield to all traffic, including people turning left. At least in NJ, I don't know about other states. http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/pdf/Manuals/drivermanual.pdf http://www.state.nj.us/mvc/pdf/Manuals/drivermanual.pdf
- zebrafish 10y agoor someone who comes from your front mau turn left? so I guess you're right in the scenario that one direction has a green light with no green arrow and the opposite direction has a red light, but how often does that scenario exist? If both directions have a green light, left-turners yield to right-turners because of traffic behind the right-turners and stop signs are always turn based.
- mnarayan01 10y agoI believe the GP is saying that they have the same right-of-way as if they were going straight. Admittedly, the difficulty in talking about this stuff precisely does leave me wondering if some people ITT are total menaces on the roads.