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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Except that the car on the left never has the right of way (to simply make a lane change to the right without making sure it is safe), as the car on the right a an open lane to drive in, and is "established in the lane". The car currently in a lane always has the right of way for that lane over a car that is entering that lane.
The yield sign in those locations is about as meaningful as a yield sign posted on the side of a four lane highway nowhere near an intersection. It simply does not mean anything.
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You're missing the point that it's a shared exit/entry lane. It is not a merge lane.
The car on the left has right of way to exit into that lane, as it is an exit ramp onto 16Ave. You can tell who has the right of way, because only one guy has a yield sign.
It's not difficult to figure out here.
Edit: To make it even more clear... the lane is only about 50 feet long, with the south end being a entrance from 16Ave onto 52St, and the north being an exit off of 52St onto 16Ave. It's not a merge lane, nor is it an ongoing lane. It is a very small lane connecting and entrance ramp and an exit ramp.
There are lots of places like this in the city. Eastbound Glenmore exiting onto northbound Deerfoot is one. The people coming off southbound Deerfoot onto eastbound Glenmore have a yield sign, as the people exiting eastbound Glenmore to the ramp to northbound Deerfoot have the right away. That doesn't stop morons from ripping through the yield sign though, and causing 40 cars on eastbound Glenmore to slam on their brakes because they just cut someone off who was trying to exit onto Deerfoot.