Re: Traffic Signals in New Mexico


Michael Wojcik wrote:
> In article <den62t$hug$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Howard Brazee" <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On 26-Aug-2005, "jce" <defaultuser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > And these people cannot understand ROUNDABOUTS!!?!?! ;-)
> >
> > Have you seen "Michigan left turns"? It's not uncommon in Michigan to have
> > divided roads that have U turns after the intersection. You go through the
> > light, and then turn around to turn right instead of turning left at the
> > intersection.
>
> There are a bunch of those in the East Lansing area, so that traffic
> from Michigan State doesn't back up behind left-turning vehicles.
>
> One time I was headed north on Harrison, which is divided, and wanted
> to reverse direction. I came to the intersection with Trowbridge.
> The left turn there is a Michigan left, so I had to turn right onto
> Trowbridge (also divided), reverse direction, and come back to the
> intersection - where of course it turned out that the left from that
> direction was *also* a Michigan left, so I had to turn right - back
> onto Harrison northbound. I was able to reverse direction a bit
> further along Harrison, of course, but the turns onto, on, and off
> Trowbridge were completely unnecessary, as was the second wait at the
> light.
>
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> --
> Michael Wojcik michael.wojcik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

What a small world! I live in Michigan and I have driven through that
very intersection on my way to a convention in Lansing. Now there are
an awful lot of things about Michigan highways that make no sense at
all, but having a divided highway with a turn around is a vast
improvement over having a center turn lane in the middle of an
un-divided highway.

Note: Michigan has only two seasons - winter and road construction. If
you are from the U.P. [only the weather forecasters ever say Upper
Michigan....] they are winter and "mighty poor sledding". :-).

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