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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So you were not turning into the strip mall, but using the turn lane to merge? I was always taught that was illegal?[/quote]

The center lane (has arrows right and left) is where you stay to safety get across a road. So if you turn left, you wait in the center lane until traffic is clear to get back on the highway. It’s not illegal. It’s so you don’t cross 3 lanes at once. It was also clear to begin with. He wasn’t looking. There was zero obstruction of my car from either direction. [/quote]
Our local police instructed us that this is illegal (I haven't researched it  myself - but our neighborhood exits onto a main road with a center turning lane so I make this turn multiple times daily). You only make your turn onto the main road when it's clear to get to your travel lane -- police specifically said you could not use the middle lane as an in-between/half-way stopping point to wait until it's clear to get into your travel lane. 
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What state/locality are you in, if you don’t mind sharing? I’m curious now

- PP who also thought this was illegal [/quote]

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