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Originally Posted by Polar Bear
Sorry, rubicon, but everything spring_chicken said is exactly right. Chicken knows the "Rules of the Road". You're the one who should brush up.
All the proper look outs, turn signals, hand signals, whatever else, do not eliminate the need for the left turner to identify an adequate gap. If there is not an adequate gap, that "driver behind me" is NOT obligated to stop for you. The gap is what matters, not just the fact that a car might be a short distance behind you.
Before you huff and puff at me, if the driver behind you is really "intentionally accelerating and making a left pass around a cart in a childish and irresponsible manner", then of course he is in the wrong. But that doesn't change the fact that spring_chicken was right...you do not automatically have the right-of-way just because you've signaled your intentions and a car may be a short distance behind you. There's where that little matter of there being a proper opening for your maneuver comes into play.
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Nay sayer, I was not making a left turn I was merging from the diamond lane , did so completely and the driver accelerated around me. Would you suggest that every golf cart utilizing a diamond lane and coming to its end such as at a stop light or village gate sit in the diamond lane until all of the traffic on said street has left. if so there is going to be a major bottleneck on all diamond lanes in TV. Again review the rules of the road and put your eyes down and notice the markings on diamond lanes they cry out for merging
I knew it would risk the rebuke and misjudgments of some posters its why I went to the trouble of detailing the event. In the long run its a non-event and was primarily to remind residents that there are some auto drivers here who simply do not understand that a driver of a golf cart is not a second class citizen and golf carts are defined as a vehicle as are bicycles and subjected to the same rules of the road as cars and the courtesies afforded thereof. Geezzz