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Originally Posted by timun
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 eastbound 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 behind 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 led, 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.
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The only exception to the left turn on red is if there is another lane, like 7th st and 5th ave. You can not turn across a traffic lane that has a straight through option(in this case, it's a bike lane). Took me a couple years of almost getting killed there before I finally convinced the roads dept to put up a sign.