Gold Coast drivers trial left turns on red lights

[Gats]

Pffft, the Americans that we have flying over to work for us have been doing this in Roma for the last 6 months

There's only 1 set of traffic lights in town luckily.

Santos installed a whole bunch of "keep left on corners signs" in the middle of nowhere, because all the yanks were instinctively heading right when confronted by a car coming the other way.

[9triton]

There's only 1 set of traffic lights in town luckily.

Santos installed a whole bunch of "keep left on corners signs" in the middle of nowhere, because all the yanks were instinctively heading right when confronted by a car coming the other way.

at the TT on the isle of man they put up signs everywhere(and on IOM radio) in french and german with

' drive on the left'.

cause all the johhnny foreigners get excited and revert to driving on the right .

was there one year and some germans in a kombi killed 2 (or 3?) motorbike riders when they pulled out straight onto the right side of the road and took out the motorbike riders (who were proabably at warp speed - but with no speed limits outside the towns were in the right. not that that bit helped them)

[FukushimaBT1]

I don't know why they can't ditch their policy of having either a red-right-arrow or a green-right-arrow lit when there are more than one right-turn-lane. You get to an intersection at Only Young People Are Supposed To Be Up At This Time O'Clock, and the red arrow just stares at you for 2-3 minutes while straight-ahead has the green light (by which time you could've been home in bed with a warm milk), and the green arrow only replaces the red arrow when some other poor sucker finally comes up the road from the other direction & gets stopped.

They want to bring in "rest on red" here. Where overnight the lights for every direction are red until a car reaches the intersection.

I'll put my screamer pipe back on if this happens

[Bren]

There's only 1 set of traffic lights in town luckily.

Santos installed a whole bunch of "keep left on corners signs" in the middle of nowhere, because all the yanks were instinctively heading right when confronted by a car coming the other way.

Lol, yes it is lucky! We were in the car and one of them was driving a couple of weeks ago and he turned left at a red. I mentioned it and he just said "I thought you were allowed to do it" hahah. And about a week and a half ago I was in the car with a different one and he pulled out on to the right hand side of the road. Was pretty funny!!

[rj_astra]

was there one year and some germans in a kombi killed 2 (or 3?) motorbike riders when they pulled out straight onto the right side of the road and took out the motorbike riders (who were proabably at warp speed - but with no speed limits outside the towns were in the right. not that that bit helped them)

RTA seems to be including red arrows (especially at red light/speed camera sites) to give an initial few second delay to those wanting to turn (left or right) when the main light turns green. Usually to protect the pedestrians on the left from over eager motorists

One particular example is McEvoy/Botany Road in Alexandria. Little girl was squashed by a left turning truck. Both the truck and pedestrian had the green light. They put in a red left arrow that stops drivers just turning left as soon as the lights turn green. It disappears after 5-10 sec.

Intersections are by far the most dangerous places for drivers/peds in urban areas

[CXTdreamer]

SA have them on major intersections,not only minor ones.

Where? I do 200+km around Adelaide every day and I've never seen anywhere that was posted as being able to turn left on a red, unless it's the turn left with care slip lanes

[smee]

SA have them on major intersections,not only minor ones.

Where, never seen one....

[darwinschops]

Should have been brought in decades ago.

Can't believe the RACQ are having a sook about it.

Agreed but the second part, not so sure. Have been watching the steady change over 10 years from scepticisim to drumming to govcos beat to the point they just go with a lot of the safety +++ crowd now (especially regarding cameras.

And about frigging time.

[ahabthearab]

Maybe queensland drivers should come to grips with the old keep left unless overtaking first before they attempt to turn left on a red light

[burn is weird]

Fucking oath.

[darwinschops]

^ and ^^ would be very fucking nice too.

[Billzilla]

Maybe queensland drivers should come to grips with the old keep left unless overtaking first before they attempt to turn left on a red light

What?

[BundyBeej]

Maybe queensland drivers should come to grips with the old keep left unless overtaking first before they attempt to turn left on a red light

Spose you'll want us to fucking indicate now too.

[BigJonWB]

Where, never seen one....

Used to be one at the traffic lights halfway along OG Road, not sure if it is still there.

[tut]

i hated this in canada

fuck it was annoying in town..