My beef is with people attempting to enter that highway from a shopping center. They want to go left while right to left traffic lanes are filled with traffic so they scoot into that yellow lane when the left to right traffic clears. Then when the right to left traffic clears, they merge into the lane.............
The only problem is that they are sitting there blocking the center yellow lane while a legitimate trafficker has pulled into that lane in order to make his legal left into that very shopping center...........
“4 lane highway with the center yellow lane used to make a left hand turn off the highway.........”
Around here, that is what you are supposed to do. But yes, one needs to be REALLY careful in doing it. Most of the times there is enough space for both folks coming off of and going onto the road. Until the traffic starts backing up, and the person wanting to turn left drives 1/2 a block in the the turn lane. There is one place near here that when it is busy I just drive around to the side road so I can use the signal rather than messing with trying to get back onto the road.
My main pet peeves:
1: People in a left-turn arrow (no other traffic except them can go) that wait until the car in front of them has cleared the intersection. It is REALLY frustrating to be stuck in that lane and seeing 4 cars go when 8 could have!
2: When they DO turn left they veer over into the right hand lane rather than staying in their lane. I used to turn right in front of left-hand turn drivers in my old truck to teach them that lesson. With a new truck and wiser now, I don’t unless I am sure they have enough time to see me and figure out they need to stay in their lane.
3: At a 4-way stop, when it is crowded, and the two cars facing each other and going straight wait for the other one to pass through the intersection. (When they COULD go at the same time).