I commend you to trying to drive on the "right" side of the road but for your safely let's keep the left side driving to us.
Or here is a suggestion visit a country that drives on the left :) from my knowledge there is a US territory that drives on the left the US Virgin Islands.
That's kind of stupid that a US territory would drive on the "wrong" side of the road. So I guess you can't turn right on red like us.... can you turn left on red instead? We can only turn left on red when we are going from a one way street to another one way street. Interesting fact: A bidirectional road leaving the Phoenix airport keeps left of the median. Weird for sure.
Well there are two territories within the Group of the Virgin Islands controlled by the British and the Americans so I guess it was logical for one or the other to adopt the same side.
I can't speak for the United Kingdom but from memory I don't call being allowed to turn on red.
We don't have that (turn on red) in New Zealand. We can only "turn on red" if there is a permissive green arrow light while the redlight is for other traffic not controlled by that arrow. IF there is a green light for the other traffic but the green arrow is doesn't appear, it means we can TURN but we must yield to other traffic and pedestrians. Normally after that the green arrow appears when the crossing lights have finished it's crossing sequences which means the pedestrians must yield to us.
In some other countries they had a flashing amber arrow to remind us that we can turn but must yield to traffic and/or pedestrians but it isn't really needed here as we normally have a sign to indicate this particular intersection utlises this setup. NOT all intersections use this set up and have a standard traffic light that dictates all traffic from one side of the intersection.
That's interesting. We can just assume it's okay to turn right on red as long as we stop first. Sometimes arrows are there too. We have these signals that are white and orange for pedestrians. A white figure and an orange hand. The orange means "Don't walk." But pedestrians don't really obey those, so we have to just watch out for them.
We use symbols for our pedestrian lights - a red man for "stop/don't walk" and a green walking man for "walk" - a solid red man is followed by the green walking man - to indicate the light is going to change - the green man disappears and the red man is flashing meaning "continue to cross if you are already on the crossing" and it returns to a solid red man and the cycle repeats.
We used to have words on our pedestrian lights that had "Wait" and "Cross" but they were replaced in the late 80s, early 90s.
Is it normal to enjoy driving on the left side of the road?
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I commend you to trying to drive on the "right" side of the road but for your safely let's keep the left side driving to us.
Or here is a suggestion visit a country that drives on the left :) from my knowledge there is a US territory that drives on the left the US Virgin Islands.
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That's kind of stupid that a US territory would drive on the "wrong" side of the road. So I guess you can't turn right on red like us.... can you turn left on red instead? We can only turn left on red when we are going from a one way street to another one way street. Interesting fact: A bidirectional road leaving the Phoenix airport keeps left of the median. Weird for sure.
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Well there are two territories within the Group of the Virgin Islands controlled by the British and the Americans so I guess it was logical for one or the other to adopt the same side.
I can't speak for the United Kingdom but from memory I don't call being allowed to turn on red.
We don't have that (turn on red) in New Zealand. We can only "turn on red" if there is a permissive green arrow light while the redlight is for other traffic not controlled by that arrow. IF there is a green light for the other traffic but the green arrow is doesn't appear, it means we can TURN but we must yield to other traffic and pedestrians. Normally after that the green arrow appears when the crossing lights have finished it's crossing sequences which means the pedestrians must yield to us.
In some other countries they had a flashing amber arrow to remind us that we can turn but must yield to traffic and/or pedestrians but it isn't really needed here as we normally have a sign to indicate this particular intersection utlises this setup. NOT all intersections use this set up and have a standard traffic light that dictates all traffic from one side of the intersection.
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That's interesting. We can just assume it's okay to turn right on red as long as we stop first. Sometimes arrows are there too. We have these signals that are white and orange for pedestrians. A white figure and an orange hand. The orange means "Don't walk." But pedestrians don't really obey those, so we have to just watch out for them.
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We use symbols for our pedestrian lights - a red man for "stop/don't walk" and a green walking man for "walk" - a solid red man is followed by the green walking man - to indicate the light is going to change - the green man disappears and the red man is flashing meaning "continue to cross if you are already on the crossing" and it returns to a solid red man and the cycle repeats.
We used to have words on our pedestrian lights that had "Wait" and "Cross" but they were replaced in the late 80s, early 90s.