Remember, a lot of the roads outside the city are blue highways with one lane in each direction. It makes a lot more sense to let the people going left turn first, so that the one car taking a left turn doesn't hold up an entire column of traffic.
Of course, when you mix natives and newcomers....
I myself ran into the opposite problem driving in Los Angeles. Out there, they get mad when you floor it to take a left turn on green. On the other hand, i found it disconcerting that they go left as the light is turning red, something that sounds a lot like running a red light to me, and risking a collision with somebody trying to make the light. Of course out there, even the residential streets are six-lane boulevards comparable to our Rt. 28, so the "backing up a whole column of traffic" doesn't apply.
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Date: 2008-09-16 12:57 am (UTC)Remember, a lot of the roads outside the city are blue highways with one lane in each direction. It makes a lot more sense to let the people going left turn first, so that the one car taking a left turn doesn't hold up an entire column of traffic.
Of course, when you mix natives and newcomers....
I myself ran into the opposite problem driving in Los Angeles. Out there, they get mad when you floor it to take a left turn on green. On the other hand, i found it disconcerting that they go left as the light is turning red, something that sounds a lot like running a red light to me, and risking a collision with somebody trying to make the light. Of course out there, even the residential streets are six-lane boulevards comparable to our Rt. 28, so the "backing up a whole column of traffic" doesn't apply.