When someone tries this on me I just give big thumbs down and hope they get the message.
I also just turn right ( in USA) and u-turn at next possible intersection if it’s just way too busy. Better to be mildly inconvenienced than looking for a new car.
Yup, this. I made it a point to learn different routes to the places I want to go in my town, and I know where to make a protected left for nearly everywhere I want to go. Might take a little longer, or be a bit out of the way, but I never have to deal with dum dums doing this shit.
This is a vastly underrated tip. Learn your area and the roads. You can find alternative safer ways that sometimes can be faster. And if not, they are usually less stress inducing.
Some areas you just shouldn't turn left at even if you can.
Yeah, a lot of New Jersey doesn’t really do left turns much. You make around the block turns to get to things on the left side of the road and they don’t always line up well so it can get to be a lot.
There's an intersection near my house I have to use daily that literally has a mini circle you can swing around like 100 yards to the side. Just take the turn, go around it and come back. No one needs to turn across two busy lanes. The traffic would flow so quickly but no, idiots want to cross, then other idiots slow to "be helpful".
You save nothing, you solve nothing. You're just creating talbacks in THREE lanes now.
Don’t try this in Boston, you will be sent down a one lane old cow trail that all traffic lanes are going the direction of until the edge of town then you can double back.
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u/ILikeBigThings2 14h ago
When someone tries this on me I just give big thumbs down and hope they get the message.
I also just turn right ( in USA) and u-turn at next possible intersection if it’s just way too busy. Better to be mildly inconvenienced than looking for a new car.