Do TURNING LANES really deserve their terrible nickname? скачать в хорошем качестве

Do TURNING LANES really deserve their terrible nickname?

Traffic travels in both directions. So it makes sense we'd have a malicious moniker for two-way left turn lanes (TWLTLs). Are they actually dangerous, though? Let's look at the safety of these middle lanes. After all, they are on roads pretty much everywhere in the United States. Buy me tacos 😀🌮►   / roadguyrob   Ask a road question ► https://www.roadguyrob.com/interchange -------------- Sources cited: -------------- Mukherjee, D. Choosing Between a Median and a TWLTL. ITE Journal, 1993, pp. 25–30. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/... Ballard, J. Computer Simulation Study of the Operational Effects of Two-Way Left-Turn Lanes on Urban Four-Lane Roadways. Transportation Research Record, 1988, pp.1-10. http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/... A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, AASHTO, Washington, pp. 9–182-9–183. ------------------------------- Additional reading: ------------------------------- Tabin, S. Truck Involved in Crash That Killed a BYU Student Belonged to Deputy, Sheriff’s Office Says. The Salt Lake Tribune, Mar 18, 2021. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/03/1...