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Old 02-25-2008, 03:19 AM
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Default Re: Intersection of CR466 and Belvedere/CR101 has new right turn only lane

They should put a right turn only lane at Buena Vista if there is room to create a new lane for it. The goat rope at Morse & 466 is a typical reaction when a bunch of loud mouths (oops, sorry) activists demand a solution without studying the problem. At Morse, all they did was take a lane previously open to right turners and drivers going straight and dedicate it to right turns. Now you have congestion in the center and left turn lanes with almost no one using the right lane. Occasionally, however, you do have someone in the right lane wanting to go straight, so they hold up traffic while they try to merge.

Meanwhile, across the street, you have 10 cars in the center lane waiting to go straight, 2 in the left turn lane, and maybe one making use of the right turn only lane --- which is really a good thing, because once again the right lane has a car or two wanting to go straight so they've blocked the right lane anyway waiting to merge into the center.

Right turn only lanes should be outlawed, against the Geneva Convention, condemned by the Pope, have a fatwa declared on them, maybe even ruled against the deed compliance stuff unless there is a lane created specifically for them and they do not interfere with existing traffic patterns.

Next weeek we will discuss the knee-jerk reaction to actvists that gave us the Edsel of Intersections, the light at Morse and Rio Grande. :yikes:
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