On my commute I approach a major set of traffic lights at which I want to turn left. The road is wide enough for two lanes and is marked at the lights into two lanes
c.50 metres before the lights there is a left turn onto a road about 80m long which connects the road I'm on with the road I want to join. It's as wide as the road I'm on and has a give way at both ends.
At the junction of the "cut through" road and the road I'm on there is a yellow criss-cross box.
Every day traffic on the road I'm on backs up at the lights beyond the yellow box, so carefully, slowly and indicating all the time, I drive up on the outside of the standing traffic to the yellow box and turn left across the car waiting at the yellow box to join the cut through road, which I can see all the time is clear.
Is this legal?
If you're in Manchester, it's the junction of Bury New Road and Wellington Road near Strangeways
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What you describe would seem to be legal, so long as you don't stop in the yellow box. Why do you need to come up the outside lane and cut across? Can't you come up the left/inside lane and make an ordinary left turn? I see a bit of scope here for shouting and fist waving!
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Nsar,
I know exactly where you mean, except its Waterloo Road (not Wellington Road) I assume that you are driving down and IIRC you cannot turn left at the traffic lights anyway (I could be wrong!).
I see no problem is what you do, as long as you are careful. I cannot see what traffic laws you have broken.
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You are not doing anything illegal as long as you are observing all road markings and signs. Ie not stopping in the box, crossing solid lines etc etc.
However, should the situation occur where an accident happens while you are doing this, you may well have th eblame heaped upon your shoulders. Turning left from the right lane in front of another car is risky.
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I drive up on the outside of thestanding traffic to the yellow box and turn left across the car waiting at the yellow box to join the cut through road,
During this manoevre are you on the 'wrong' side of the carriage way? ...though come to think of it this is no different to 'normal' overtaking
Someone is bound to ask in a minute or so, wouldn't it be easier, if not quicker, to get into the left-hand lane in the first instance, much less chance of a road rage incident...
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Probably legal, but (if I understand it correctly) you're risking a broadside prang if those in l/h lane are slightly asleep!
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I hope this is legal as I, and lots of people do it at a junction outside my house.
Traffic queues for the railway crossing, but there is a road off to the left, also with a yellow box around it. Many people blast down the wrong side of the road, overtaking all the stationary traffic and then cut infront of the car at the yellow box.
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You don't live in Reigate do you Kenny - The level crossing there is exactly as you describe.
As it is on an A road the traffic backs up a long way when the gates close , cars may be blasting down the hill for a quarter mile on the wrong side to turn left just before the gates.
The fun starts when someone blasting down the wrong side of the road meets by somone coming the other way from one of the side roads or the gates open as they get half way down the queue and nobody will let them back in.....
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Exactly the same at the station level crossing in Wokingham, Helicopter. Not a BIG A road, but you geta queue, so people go on the wrong side of the road to turn left immediately before the crossing.
Same problems with people not being let in too.
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No this is by Portslade station in Hove. Usually coming across other cars is a problem, but at the moment there is a road which is closed cutting off the supply of cars coming from anywhere other than the left road, but its wide enough for 3 cars across anyway.
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The reason for not making a "normal" left turn is that there is a row of cars in the left hand lane who, when the lights have changed, will pass by the road I want to turn left into and carry on through the lights.
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