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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Blindside blocker is a rude dude

Posted on Thursday, December 15

This is another one about rude drivers.
Sometimes we have to turn onto another road at a place where there is no traffic light. To do this, we have to look left and right for an opening, so we can pull out into the traffic. What's rude is when someone comes up from behind us, they are turning in the opposite direction, and they pull right up beside us, blocking our view of the traffic on that side. The other vehicle is often taller than ours, so the driver may not be aware of their offense.
Well, now you know. Spread the word.

-Etta Kett

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I feel your pain. I drive a small car and this frequently happens to me too. Another pet peeve of mine is neighborhood associations who put up signs or pillars right at the entrance to their neighborhoods which block my view of oncoming traffic. The same goes for homeowners who plant bushes right at corners. I think there is a law that states these bushes must be trimmed so as not to obstruct a drivers view but I doubt that it is ever enforced.

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Posted by Pogo on January 12, 2012 at 8:56 AM

I was actually thinking of posting something similar to this.

When I come up to almost any non-traffic light intersection around here and am trying to turn right, I am invariably joined by someone who pulls up *past me* into the left turn lane, despite the fact that most left turn lane lines are painted *behind* the straight/right lane line.

The reason for this is to give traffic in the perpendicular lane enough room to make their left turns, but there's another more subtle reason....

If I'm trying to turn right and you're trying to turn left, you absolutely have to at least wait until I am clear to turn because you definitely aren't making a left turn if my right turn isn't clear (think about it, you're crossing a lane to get where you're going and I'm not). So, if you pull up past me all you are doing is *preventing another driver from seeing the only lane that matters to them*. You aren't getting out any faster by doing this but you are creating a potential hazard for me and for drivers turning left onto the road we're sitting on.

So, left turn people, back up to your line and realize that big government liberal road planners probably know something you don't about how traffic works.

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Posted by mat catastrophe on January 15, 2012 at 12:33 PM

Mat, the driver attempting to make a right turn does not have the right to pull forward and block the view of the person in the left lane who needs to see traffic coming from both right and left. Whomever arrived at the intersection first has the right to the clear view of both lanes of traffic.

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Posted by Fish Pimp on January 15, 2012 at 2:57 PM

Fish, that is true but not what I was trying to explain. The left turn lanes are usually painted so that their line is behind the straight/right turn. And, as I said, it's physically impossible for the left turning vehicle to go if the way isn't clear for the right turning car - so they're is no advantage to them pulling way up....

Although I will concede, like Pogo above, that a lot of residential roads (and most roads into residential areas off main roads) are horrible with respect to sight lines...

But I'm also talking about areas like Anna Knapp onto Mathis Ferry here in Mt P, and almost every intersection on that side of 17 on Frontage Rd.

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Posted by mat catastrophe on January 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM
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