Thanks for honking - I _know_ I can...

[kaytieeldr]

... turn right on red; I choose to wait for the green arrow. I know it's coming. I've been through this intersection five days a week for the last six months.

It's going to change as soon as the right-of-way traffic clears. Honest. I stopped just this side of the stop line, so the sensors know there's a vehicle waiting. Five seconds, tops - once there's no oncoming traffic and it's safe to proceed, of course.

Right on red is a option, not a rule.

 

[AKL_Megs]

It was probably me, sorry.

 

[Sparx]

THANK YOU!

I was almost ran off the road once by someone trying to force me to go right on red. People who honk and rev their engine at me just make me wait a few seconds longer. Some people really need a lesson in patience.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Couldn't have been you, Megs - unless you have an AWFULLY loud horn! I'm in Massachusetts

 

[AKL_Megs]

Couldn't have been you, Megs - unless you have an AWFULLY loud horn! I'm in Massachusetts

Good, I am off the hook!

 

[shortbun]

We(school buses) are not allowed to use this option in our school district. Buses are big and take a long time to turn right. People get really peeved. BUT...I don't see the need to wait or be afraid to use it if it's otherwise safe. OP, why are you waiting? If you are driving with fear instead of caution and confidence, you may be a hazard. It's like those old folks driving 40mph on the freeway-they are causing danger due to their fear. Why intentionally irk someone?

 

[DisneyFan32WI]

I would've been honking at you too....

 

[Mermaid02]

If there's nothing coming why won't you turn right on red?

 

[hereyago]

I would've been honking at you too....

Me as well. Unless there is a sign prohibiting no turn on red, then you have to go or you will be blocking a lane, which where I am from is illegal as well.

 

[Mermaid02]

... turn right on red; I choose to wait for the green arrow. I know it's coming. I've been through this intersection five days a week for the last six months.

It's going to change as soon as the right-of-way traffic clears. Honest. I stopped just this side of the stop line, so the sensors know there's a vehicle waiting. Five seconds, tops - once there's no oncoming traffic and it's safe to proceed, of course.

Right on red is a option, not a rule.

The more I think about this the less sense it makes.

 

[java]

Yes I would have honked too. Particularly if the road was totally clear and I had been sitting behind you for the last 6 months!

 

[MIGrandma]

If there's nothing coming why won't you turn right on red?

Exactly what I was thinking.

While I might get irritated at someone for not turning right on a red when there is obviously nothing coming to prohibit the turn, I still wouldn't honk my horn at them. But I've never understood people who refuse to turn right on a red when they have the opportunity to do so.

 

[Mermaid02]

Exactly what I was thinking.

While I might get irritated at someone for not turning right on a red when there is obviously nothing coming to prohibit the turn, I still wouldn't honk my horn at them. But I've never understood people who refuse to turn right on a red when they have the opportunity to do so.

I would honk because I would think they just spaced for a minute- I wouldnt' think they were afraid to make a turn when it is safe and legal.

 

[aprilgail2]

Me as well. Unless there is a sign prohibiting no turn on red, then you have to go or you will be blocking a lane, which where I am from is illegal as well.

I agree...I would have been honking! Who in the world sits there waiting when its perfectly legal to turn right on red????

 

[Disney1fan2002]

...and I will choose to honk, thank you.

 

[anniemae]

I am not sure from your post if it was safe to go or not. If it was all clear, you should take the right on red (as long as there is no sign.) I would have honked, but only because I would have thought the driver spaced out for a second!

 

[LoraJ]

I get honked at when there are signs for No Turn on Red. I point at the sign and then they lay on their horns. Welcome to NJ.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

I will say though, these "right on red" laws got me a nice $90 ticket in NYC once!

I am sitting a red light. I need to take a right, but I don't see a sign that says it is ok to trun right on red, so I don't. The light turns green, I turn right. There was a cop on the corner chasing me down and yelling for me to pull over. (he was on foot) I pull over immediately, and have no idea what I did wrong. He points out the RED RIGHT ARROW! WTH????? I have never in my life seen a red arrow for a right turn, when the regular light is green!!! I explain I am from Mass and I wasn't even aware that it was there. I truly did not notice it. I wasn't looking for it, my light was green, so I went. My friends in the van with me thought for sure he would give me a break, being from out of state and all. Nope. He presents me with a $90 ticket. I will tell you, this was back in the spring of 2002, when NYC was BEGGING for tourists. PLEASE COME TO NYC...so we can give you a $90 moving violation!

 

[luvmy3]

Wow, alot of impatient drivers on the DIS. I would want the person to go but I wouldn't have honked, its a red light, the can choose to stay stopped. They owe us no explanation.

 

[LoraJ]

NYC has traps like that all over the city. One night I was going to pick up a friend from her job and I had another friend in my car. We were at a red light on a one way street waiting to turn left onto another one way street. Light changes and I notice there is a No Left Turn sign. I had already started to turn but someone was right on my tail also making the turn. I felt the safest thing to do at that point was to continue with the turn.

Of course there were two cops on foot waiting for us and pulled us both over. My cop was nice though, she told me to fight it. She wrote up the ticket wrong so I went to court and the 10 people in front of me all had the same wrong ticket written. When it was my turn the judge just said, "I know what you did, do make that left again, ticket dismissed."