Timeline for Unmarked T/Y intersection. Where do I turn left?
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| Mar 15, 2018 at 21:56 | comment | added | Fattie | All we really know is that you MUST keep to the right of it. Everything else is speculation. | |
| Mar 15, 2018 at 21:55 | comment | added | Fattie | definitely absolutely identical, in every - single - way - to road furniture which matches no-right-turn, in most states. | |
| Mar 15, 2018 at 15:24 | comment | added | Kevin | -1 definitely not right turn only. | |
| Jan 6, 2017 at 2:22 | comment | added | Andy | I agree with what to do, but disagree that they are attempting to prohibit left turns. The road in question doesn't even turn as sharply to the right as the Walmart image, and it would seem fairly odd to not allow left turns on a road which seems to be in a spare area. | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 11:27 | comment | added | Fattie | Hey @Jan - indeed, I was going to say something along the lines ... "In the USA you just don't have those wild "four-lane-cross-over-y-junctions" you see in say Germany..." (If I'm not mistaken you sometimes get those in Aussie/UK, also.) Anyway cheers | |
| Nov 24, 2016 at 11:25 | history | edited | Fattie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 23, 2016 at 1:00 | comment | added | Jan | In Europe, Germany specifically, there are actually a large number of symmetrical dividers which allow both turns. Some follow a pattern where the divider is between vehicles entering the intersection and those leaving, while others ‘separate’ the road leading to the intersection ‘into two’, implying that traffic turning left out of the vertical T-bar will have to pass traffic turning left into the vertical T-bar at the top of the T-bar (i.e. before the intersection). But different countries = different regulations. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 21:32 | comment | added | Fattie | TBC: regarding (issue B) "is it right turn only". You're right, one could say that maybe in that state (or whatever) it's OK to turn left there. But regarding (issue A), "must you keep to the right?" Yes! You have to keep to the right! | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 21:31 | comment | added | Fattie | "if they really wanted to prohibit left turns, they would put a sign [or whatever] to indicate that" - it's just not correct. You often have to know to stop, when there's no stop sign. If there's a road divider - there's a road divider! There can't be a more clear "sign or whatever" than an actual physical divider, built with stones, grass etc. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 21:09 | comment | added | phoog | But in your example, it's clearly indicated by the pavement markings: A solid yellow line, a rightward arrow, and the word "only." I should have written "sign or pavement marking," obviously; I'm not sure why I didn't. I also note that the divider in your example is not symmetrical, while the one in the question is. Your intersecting road is divided; the one in the question is not. In short, there are several parameters in which your example differs from the one in the question in ways to suggest that the intersection in the question does not share the right-turn-only nature of your example. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 20:55 | comment | added | Fattie | I disagree, phoogster. There are any number of situations in the US where there's no sign, but you have to understand what you have to do. Note that even in the example I added, they forgot to add a "Keep Right" sign to the divider - but you certainly have to keep right at the divider!!! | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 20:12 | comment | added | phoog | I would say that the intersection in the question is poorly marked, but if they really wanted to prohibit left turns, they would put a sign to indicate that. | |
| Nov 22, 2016 at 19:04 | vote | accept | user53984 | ||
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| Nov 22, 2016 at 15:43 | history | answered | Fattie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |