Re:How UPS trucks saved millions of dollars by eliminating l...
by dec0dedab0de on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:39AM
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People turning right have the same right-of-way as people going straight through an intersection.
No they don't, They must come to a complete stop and yield to all traffic, including people turning left. At least in NJ, I don't know about other states.
Re:How UPS trucks saved millions of dollars by eliminating l...
by zebrafish on Friday February 10, 2017 @01:46PM
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or someone who comes from your front mau turn left?
so I guess you're right in the scenario that one direction has a green light with no green arrow and the opposite direction has a red light, but how often does that scenario exist?
If both directions have a green light, left-turners yield to right-turners because of traffic behind the right-turners and stop signs are always turn based.
Re:How UPS trucks saved millions of dollars by eliminating l...
by mnarayan01 on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:57PM
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I believe the GP is saying that they have the same right-of-way as if they were going straight. Admittedly, the difficulty in talking about this stuff precisely does leave me wondering if some people ITT are total menaces on the roads.
As for someone to your left going straight thru the intersection... you, turning right, must yield to those going straight. However, there is not always traffic coming straight through the light. If someone on the perpendicular street turns right instead of going straight thru, you may turn right from your lane into their lane because there is a pause in traffic flow coming through the intersection.
That probably doesn't make much sense but the bottom line is that when everyone knows the rules and everyone observes them, right on red is mostly painless.