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Originally Posted by Patrick
If you can't turn left, then won't you have to drive a block past your intended street, make a right, go down a block, make a right, go down a block, and make another right? This will take you back to your intended turn (had you been allowed to turn left), but you have now driven 4 extra blocks and made 3 extra turns, some of which you may have had to slow down or stop for. Also, you might have to stop and wait now at the original intersection if you happen to hit the light wrong. Is there some study that shows this is more efficient than allowing left turns? Seems like a lot of extra mileage, and I'm not sure people will put up with it.  |
You pass the street that you would otherwise turn left on and enter to the right,into a cloverleaf collector lane which sweeps in a circle to deliver you to the 'slow' lane of the cross street.
As you emerge from the cloverleaf,the light has changed for the cross-traffic and you proceed without stopping, going 'left' as far as you want to go,hitting nothing but green lights.
Hackensack,N.J. used to have such a system.This is where the U.S.Highway system began.