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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no trouble with this, but I thought you can get a ticket for being in the middle when the light turns red. Also, a lot of times even after the light turns red, the right turn lane never clears and you can't turn left into the road you wanted. [/quote]
Lifelong Washingtonian here.  Back in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, the remaining left-turner could always count on turning on the yellow light.  The cars from the other direction slowed down at the yellow, leaving time and space for the left-turner to go.

Fast forward to today, and cars coming from the other direction are busy pushing their way through the intersection up until the second the light turns from yellow to red.  The left-turner often has to make that turn after the light has already changed.[/quote]

Agreed. [b]And this is when a cop can ticket you[/b]. I also worry a lot in DC about getting a ticket from a red light camera so there's no way I'm pulling forward in DC. (But I'm a good driver and pay close attention. I'm not the 55mph in the left lane poster above)[/quote]

No cop in DC is going to give you a ticket if you are in the intersection and have been patiently waiting to turn left on a light even if you are stuck until it turns red.  You people are idiots and you cause a great deal of the bad driving and angst in this town our roads.  No one should sit through multiple green lights behind the line waiting to turn left.  Cops are far smarter than you give them credit for and they know and deal with traffic around here the same as you.  [/quote]

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