why do people inch up

[Michie]

at redlights? I have seen people inch all the way up into the middle of the intersection

 

[Marseeya]

I don't know, but I always make a point of not budging when they do that!

 

[BrerLizzie]

I hate that.. My grandpa does it to people all the time.. drives me nuts!

 

[monarchsfan16]

If I'm at the front of the line and not on the stop line I'll generally inch up so that I'm just over the stop line, since a lot of lights around here now have sensors, especially for a left turn. I do NOT inch into the middle of the intersection though.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

I don't know, but I find it annoying myself.

 

[Stacerita]

If I'm at the front of the line and not on the stop line I'll generally inch up so that I'm just over the stop line, since a lot of lights around here now have sensors, especially for a left turn. I do NOT inch into the middle of the intersection though.

I believe people around here are doing it for the sensors too.

 

[SPAM]

impatience?

 

[bicker]

at redlights? I have seen people inch all the way up into the middle of the intersection

In much of the East Coast, it is normal practice to inch up when making a left turn, after the light turns green. If you do not do so, opposing traffic is so consistent that no vehicles would be able to make left turns, ever.

 

[LeCras]

This is one of my pet peeves and I must admit I was chuffed to bits when someone got in trouble for doing this...

He had crawled well past the white line, obviously in a hurry to go straight along this pretty narrow road (the roads over here are nowhere near as wide as in the US). However, before the lights turned green a fire engine turned onto this same road (going the opposite direction of the waiting cars), lights and sirens on... It couldn't make the turn! The guy had pulled out so far that there wasn't enough room for the fire engine... Of course, the people behind had pulled up as well, so he couldn't just reverse - it took a good few minutes of organising for everyone to reverse back far enough so that poor firemen could get through. The firemen were not happy and were very vocal about it...

Wouldn't it have been poetic justice if it was this guy's house that was on fire..?

Charlotte

 

[SetzKitten]

I call it "the creeps". Creeping up in the intersection. You're not going anywhere, so why are you moving??? Drives me crazy.

 

[Mickey527]

Funny you should bring this up today.
I had a guy in front of me on the way to work who crawled up so much at the light that he couldn't see it when it turned green. The other side had a delayed light so he couldn't rely on them to know when the light turned green.
Needless to say when the light turned green and a few seconds passed there were a few beeps from me and the guy behind me. Peggie

 

[CapeCodTenor]

In much of the East Coast, it is normal practice to inch up when making a left turn, after the light turns green. If you do not do so, opposing traffic is so consistent that no vehicles would be able to make left turns, ever.

I'd have to agree with this, but I'll add to it. I live on Cape Cod, and during the summer traffic can be horrendous. I live in a small subdivision just off a main road, Rt 28, two lanes only. And sometimes it's necessary to inch out and stop traffic in one direction just to get out of the subdivision. The joke is, that Cape Cod sinks about 3 inches every summer because of all the tourists that come down and stay for either the day, weekend, week or half the summer. So it can get very crowded the Cape, and this is why I do it.

 

[glass-slipper]

Ooh, I hate this!!! My Dh does it all the time and it drives me crazy!

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

It really bugs me when people do this. Around here a lot of people stop at the red light and then inch up the whole time the light is red. Once the light turns green, they drive really slow! How can you be so impatient at the light but when it is time for you to go, you pretty much don't?

This is one of my pet peeves and I must admit I was chuffed to bits when someone got in trouble for doing this...

He had crawled well past the white line, obviously in a hurry to go straight along this pretty narrow road (the roads over here are nowhere near as wide as in the US). However, before the lights turned green a fire engine turned onto this same road (going the opposite direction of the waiting cars), lights and sirens on... It couldn't make the turn! The guy had pulled out so far that there wasn't enough room for the fire engine... Of course, the people behind had pulled up as well, so he couldn't just reverse - it took a good few minutes of organising for everyone to reverse back far enough so that poor firemen could get through. The firemen were not happy and were very vocal about it...

Wouldn't it have been poetic justice if it was this guy's house that was on fire..?

Charlotte

About 3 weeks ago I was at a red light of a side street and a main road. I was on the side street behind a lady that inched up into the shoulder of the main road. A school bus on the main road was trying to make a right onto the side street. Now this side street has a lot of cars parked in the street and this lady was in the middle of the street instead of on her side. Even if a car was to make the right it would be a tight squeeze. This lady at the light was so far past the light that it wouldn't change. The bus couldn't make the turn with her there so the bus is stuck in the main road and this lady is inching up more into the main road trying to make a left (I think, she wasn't using directionals and you can't go straight ). People behind the bus are honking and trying to get around and this lady in the car is oblivious. The bus driver was nice but is now getting mad. I had to stay back so that the bus could turn so I couldn't move over the senser. It was horrible. Finally the lady just made a right and got out of the way. I just couldn't believe how this oblivious woman blocked traffic and didn't "see" the bus trying to make the turn. How do you not see a big yellow school bus honking at you?

 

[Wish Upon A Star]

I have a confession to make . . . .

I do that! I don't know why . . .I guess I am impatient . . .if I'm at the red light first and I see the other side turn yellow, then red, I"m just anticipating my side turning green so I inch up a bit . . .I might need driver re-training.

 

[Dan Murphy]

What drives me nuts is when the light turns green, a left-turner will either just sit where they were for the red, waiting for a space to open, and turn, or, they inch up, literally a few inches, then space opens, make the turn, only that car is able to turn before red again. Rules of the Road here in IL are to pull out, into the intersection, perpendicular to the lane you are turning into, which means essentially the middle of the intersection, not the line one was at for the red. If people followed that, generally a minimum of two, maybe three cars could left turn, even if no spaces opened up before turning red again. I so often wonder how people became licensed in the first place.

 

[Stitchfans]

I believe people around here are doing it for the sensors too.

this is what I've been told. I know it works because DH does it all the time. kind of drives me nuts.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Why the heck is 30 more seconds going to make a difference in your drive time? Show a little dadgum patience.

 

[HoneyPooh]

We do it for the sensors as well but the sensor is under the white line area so we don't edge out very far. I hate when people are beyond the white line because it makes it very hard to make a left turn past them to enter the road they are coming out of. The one and only accident I ever had was caused by someone who cruised up to the stop, over the white line and into the back end of my car as I was making the turn in front of them. I was a huge 8 months pregnant at the time and the face of the guy in the other car when I climbed out was priceless. I was fine but I thought he would faint! He knew exactly what he had done and paid a nice bit to fix the back door of my car.

 

[froglady]

In much of the East Coast, it is normal practice to inch up when making a left turn, after the light turns green. If you do not do so, opposing traffic is so consistent that no vehicles would be able to make left turns, ever.

In FL, this is called "declaring the intersection" and if you enter the intersection and position your car for a left turn while the light is green, you must complete the turn, even if the light turns red.

Doesn't count if the light is yellow when you enter the intersection, but lots of people pretend it does.