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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 07:15 PM EST |
Yup.
A full green light means "go". If you want to turn left or go straight
ahead then there'll be no traffic in your way. If you want to turn right, the
traffic coming the other way has priority.
One local junction has both full green and a right arrow. When the traffic
coming the other way has their light go red, the green arrow goes on to say it's
safe to turn right.
I thought it might be something to do with the American habit of legally running
a red light if you're turning right... you can never do that over here.
Something else I've noticed that's yet another strange (to UK eyes) system
common in Europe, if traffic has a green light then pedestrians also get a green
light to cross the side street. The rules say cars turning left or right have to
give way. Whereas in the UK the rules say "if the pedestrians have a green
light there will be no cars". On some crossings ALL the traffic lights go
red at once, and pedestrians who know the crossing will go in any direction
(including diagonally), because they know all traffic is stopped.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tknarr on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 07:19 PM EST |
Most larger intersections here have a dedicated turn period at the start of
the light. It's "red arrows, red lights" -> "green turn arrows, red lights"
-> red turn arrows, green straight-through lights" -> "red arrows, red
lights". [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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