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Routemasters (again)
JNugent put finger to keyboard:
On 12/08/2013 12:45, Scion wrote: JNugent put finger to keyboard: On 05/08/2013 22:27, Phil W Lee wrote: snip And it gives no difference between the act of going straight on, turning left, and turning right. All a green light gives is a suspension of the prohibition on passing the stop line. Nothing more. Rubbish. There are all sorts of traffic light junctions, some of which allow turning traffic priority over oncoming traffic. You were just wrong (very wrong), that's all. On this point Phil is right. He is wrong if the "thinks" that the green light instructs you to give way to anyone who has a red light (and that's actually at the murky bottom of what he's trying to claim). Can't see where he said that TBH. The traffic light *only* tells you that you may proceed past the line. That's all it *needs* to tell you, because when it was red it was only telling you that you may *not* proceed past the same line (complicated junctions with idiosyncrasies of layout, etc, excepted of course). Once you're past the line on a green light, the normal rules of the road, which apply everywhere, all the time, apply again. Of course - that's what I said. So why you said that Phil's statement that "All a green light gives is a suspension of the prohibition on passing the stop line" was "rubbish" is a mystery. Even if you've got, say, a green right-turn filter arrow, you don't have priority over oncoming traffic, which *may* have crossed their line on green - think slow cyclists, invalid scooters and so on. Aren't you clever? It's a burden I've learned to live with. Which bit of "the normal rules of the road apply" is too difficult? For me? None of it. |
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