On 10/07/2015 09:57 AM, Don Y wrote:
People are frequently getting in accidents in these lanes. It seems a
no-brainer: the lanes are NOT for "travel"; yet one driver will be
in the lane waiting for a break in oncoming traffic to turn and some
other idiot will plow into him (from either direction).

Those can get interesting. Driver A wants to make a left into a side
street and pulls into the center lane. Meanwhile Driver B is already
past the side street A wants to turn onto but pulls into the center lane
to make his left onto the side street A has already passed. Chaos ensues.