@antiquarian said:
Yesterday I was waiting at a light that just turned green for the oncoming drivers making protected lefts to finish. I counted three cars that had clearly started left turns after my side had the green light.
Sometimes it works out. A few years ago, I was waiting to go after a green light because a car had clearly started a protected left after the light turned green for me. The police car behind me saw the same thing and pulled him over.
Yeah, that happened at an intersection last night, which is part of this story that I was going to post...
So there's a local road bypass that I take for about a mile to get around bumper-to-bumper traffic on the 5. The only issue is that a major intersection has too much traffic, and a rail crossing on one side. So I'm coming south, needed to take a right turn across the tracks to get back to the highway onramp. The road I'm on has three lanes, a dedicated left-turn lane, a middle straight lane, and the right lane is straight/right turn mixed-use. Waiting for the north-bound traffic to clear the intersection after about 5 cars ran the red, I'm in the mixed-use lane, which is wide enough to have the right-turners and straight-non-turners in the same lane. Some douchecanoe thinks he's smart and can bypass the 15 cars in the right side of the lane by pretending to go straight, and flying around the corner. So the crossing has two lanes per side, and since the near lane is full, I make my right turn, get in the far lane, with the idiot flying around, not anticipating that I'd move over, and honks his horn at me, nearly rear-ending me. Sorry, but if you want to bypass traffic like that, karma's going to hit. So he's tailgating me, and as I cross the tracks, there's enough traffic where my car is the last one that can fit across the tracks. So he decides that it's smart to stay on my tail, and sit on the tracks. So traffic starts moving, and I sit there for a few seconds, letting him just sit on the tracks, thinking about his bad decisions. My only regret is that the signals didn't start going off.