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“right turns on red (after a full stop, when clear and not otherwise posted) are legal in nearly every state”, Really? Really!? I never knew this and… I don’t know but, this just sounds insane. how long do folks have to wait for red to clear, 2 hours? What reason could there be to allow you to legally bypass a red signal? Are the signal routines programmed so bad? Why? Why is this a thing? I’m baffled. hahahaha
Turns on red are allowed if you don’t cross over an opposing direction. People call it right turn on red because 99.999% of the time it’s a right turn.
What reason could there be to allow you to legally bypass a red signal?
Poorly designed cities with stroads would become gridlocked if the the busier traffic route had to stop for every single person turning right. Merge lanes aren’t always viable.
Not saying I agree with it, jsut answering your quesiton.
“right turns on red (after a full stop, when clear and not otherwise posted) are legal in nearly every state”, Really? Really!? I never knew this and… I don’t know but, this just sounds insane. how long do folks have to wait for red to clear, 2 hours? What reason could there be to allow you to legally bypass a red signal? Are the signal routines programmed so bad? Why? Why is this a thing? I’m baffled. hahahaha
It’s to save fuel…
I’d imagine any fuel it saves would be nullified by extra ambulance rides from red light turners hitting pedestrians however…
An oil crisis decades ago where they didn’t want cars idling at lights burning gas
Wait until you hear about left turns on red being allowed from 1 way street …
which makes just as much sense as right turns. possibly more, actually.
Turns on red are allowed if you don’t cross over an opposing direction. People call it right turn on red because 99.999% of the time it’s a right turn.
It’s onto a one way street around here. You don’t need to be turning from a one way.
I’m pretty sure it’s one-way to one-way. Otherwise you’d be crossing oncoming traffic who might have a green light while you have red…
Poorly designed cities with stroads would become gridlocked if the the busier traffic route had to stop for every single person turning right. Merge lanes aren’t always viable.
Not saying I agree with it, jsut answering your quesiton.
But with turn on red it has to stop anyway, turn on red needs a full stop first.
European equivalent would be left on red, I’d imagine.
to my knowledge i though just uk, india, and japan ride on the left.
There are quite a few more, most of the old British colonies in the Pacific and southern Africa, plus southeast Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic#/media/File:Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg
You do know most European countries are right hand drive?