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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was behind someone in a straight lane who blocked the lane to wait to squeeze into a left turn only lane. Selfish and stupid. Everyone was honking but they wouldn't budge.

I was taught if you miss your turn you DON'T stop. Just maintain the flow of traffic and look for the next turn. It was less than 1/8 mile up the road, easy u-ey.

Have people not been taught this? Why is missing a turn the end of the world? GPS? [/quote]
Wait, what? So was the turn lane full and they were just behind the last car waiting to get in the lane? Or were they stopped beside cars in the lane?

I ask because for some reason, [b]people in DC think that making a legal left hand turn that stops traffic behind them in that lane is cause to honk, threaten, and scream at people unless they either drive into head on traffic or mow down any pedestrians in the crosswalk.[/b] The driver isn't doing anything illegal, they are just mad they have to stop for 5 seconds on a busy city street.[/quote]

That happened to me yesterday.  I was making a legal left turn off 16th Street and the guy behind me nearly hit me trying to squeeze past me.  I had pulled up as much as possible to let the cars behind me pull around, anticipating that they would try to do so anyway, but I still got tons of honks.  Drivers are so damn impatient that it's scary sometimes. [/quote]

I agree it's awful, and it's all over the place here.  What can we do about it??[/quote]
This is the only thing cops should actually be used for. When they witness this behavior, they need to pull the cars over. I have seen a zillion cops watch people run red lights and they do NOTHING. They need to crack down on distracted and aggressive driving. [/quote]

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