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Article #147Re: Erwin Rd to Walden Pond
From: Paul Gronke
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:00
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I've wondered -- this is a "private road" (Duke claims ownership you can tell by the yellow under the street sign). Can a Duke police officer give me a moving violation ticket for ignoring that sign? In article <330A400A.3145@mc.duke.edu>, fehrs002@mc.duke.edu wrote: >Flowers Drive, where it meets Erwin Rd, has a "no left turn" sign. >From what I can tell, half or more of the cars at this intersection >are turning left anyway (possibly less at rush hour). > >That being said, I figure they made the no-left-turn for 2 or 3 >reasons: >1) Traffic backing up Flowers Drive as people wait to turn left > during rush hour. >2) They couldn't bother to make seperate left/right turn lanes, > ala Trent Drive, to alleviate #1. >3) Accidents, it's a busy area? [I haven't noticed many and I've > worked in Pickens/Hanes a while] also, perhaps, 4) Buses that have to turn right, there is often a longer wait if people are trying to turn left. > >Anyways, I walk past this intersection daily and it just cracks >me up to see so many people turning left despite the sign. >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108a25,c415cf2cc995d705 X-Google-Attributes: gid108a25,public X-Google-Thread: 114e5f,c415cf2cc995d705 X-Google-Attributes: gid114e5f,public From: gronke@acpub.duke.edu (Paul Gronke) Subject: Re: Erwin Rd to Walden Pond Date: 1997/02/19 Message-ID: <5edm6o$923@newsgate.duke.edu> X-Deja-AN: 219742765 References: <330A400A.3145@mc.duke.edu> Organization: Duke University Newsgroups: duke.general,triangle.politics