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Originally Posted by memason
I guess it makes perfect sense to me that a car would move over to the right to make a right hand turn. Cars turning "across" the cart lane would be much more dangerous for carts, I think. The way some folks drive, I don't believe I could trust that they would be watching the right mirror for a cart that might be passing them on the right. When carts are on the streets, they don't turn left from the cart lane; they use the normal traffic lanes, as they should.
Hmmmm.....
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Memason, you make a good point. It is not necessarily moving to the right to make a right turn that is wrong. It's changing lanes without a turn signal and without yielding to oncoming traffic in the right lane.
So I ask again, if you cut off any motorist in any lane wouldn't that an improper lane change and failure to yield?
TH, what say ye?
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Originally Posted by RichieLion
Anyone, with any sense, should drive with the assumption that the car in the road on their left might turn right at the intersection in front of you without warning.
You can't trust the competency of the driver of the car and it's better to just give way and under no circumstances be next to a car when going through the intersection.
Your right of way or the automobiles right of way, it's your ass on the line.
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Whenever I'm in the cart lane on a street and I'm about to come to a street on my right, I look to see whether a car is beside me or behind but gaining on me to my left. If so, I slow down to make sure we don't reach the intersection or T exchange at the same time. Why? If the car turned right at that exchange, it would hardly matter whether it turned right in front of me from the car lane or whether it moved into the cart lane in front of me before turning. It would hit me all the same.