Thread: Policy on U-Turns at Intersection traffic Lights
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Old 12-04-2010, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Kato View Post
U-Turns at traffic lights become extremely dangerous when traffic coming from the side road has a green filter arrow light.

They are given a green light to go (and 99% will turn without looking if there is any traffic, as traffic in the other direction should be stopped by a red light). Suddenly someone doing a u-turn is merging into traffic with a green light and all hell breaks loose.

The rule is there to protect the piss poor road design we have.
Exactly, as per my post above

A well executed handbrake turn, followed by at 4wd drift and lots of tyre smoke is perfectly acceptable however.
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