On 10/7/2015 6:14 PM, rbowman wrote:
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.

Pull into the lane immediately before the turn you want to make. I.e.,
if someone is there, pull *past* them. Or, pull in front of them and wait
for them to clear the lane.

Here, they seem to be the source of frequent (often serious/fatal) accidents.
Hence my confusion: don't you *see* the guy stopped in the middle of the
road ahead of you? (how else can you get into an "accident"?)