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I had no idea that wasn’t considered normal! I sometimes even wait a second if I see someone on the opposite side of the intersection with a left turn signal on

• ghaff 6y ago
  It is pretty normal at least in the congested areas I know. (That left is called by a lot of different city names.) But it's not strictly legal because you don't have the right of way to make a turn. But it's one of the zillion things that people do (including jaywalking when it's hopefully safe) that people do in order to get places and, so long as they're not obnoxious or dangerous about it, no one gets either hurt or ticketed.