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This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That, to me, looks like an intersection I would never want to turn left on in the first place in anything but the most deserted area.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Which is the delusion that the US's traffic engineers based all of their decisions on 60 years ago.

"This'll be fine hardly anybody lives out here"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

It's compounded by the delusion that the US's traffic engineers base all of their decisions on now.

"It'll be fine, it's been here for 60 years."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It doesn't work when nobody lives around either.

The only way this can work is if both all cars are from the 30s, only able to move at 50 km/h, and nobody lives around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep, same. I'll bust a right and flip around a street up the road.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah this is the only legal way to turn left in a road with a median like this in michigan. You have to turn right to turn left.