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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I've noticed a proliferation of people who can't make a turn correctly. Left or right, they'll turn, and instead of entering the appropriate lane, then signalling and lane changing, they just wander over to whatever lane they want to be in. Super dangerous and unpredictable, yet so many people do it these days. These same people often turn left from near the curb side, instead of being at the centre, so the block right turners, or vice versa.
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Especially dangerous at intersections with multiple turn lanes... Some of the streets downtown for instance can be nasty for this; northbound 8th Street turning onto westbound 4th Ave comes to mind. Three left-turn lanes, lane markings through the intersection, and you still get jokers in the far left lane cutting across two lanes mid-turn so they can take the Louise Bridge to Memorial Drive instead of being funnelled onto westbound Bow Trail.
This reminds me of another, tangentially-related peeve: left turns from a one-way to another one-way. 1) Left turns on a red light are permitted in these situations, but people won't take them, 2) ALL turn lanes are allowed to make turns against a red light, not just the left-hand curbside lane, and 3) drivers in the right lanes often don't stop behind the stop lines/crosswalks, blocking the view of cars in the turn lanes to their left and therefore not allowing them to safely make the turn on a red.