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08-04-2007, 09:08 PM
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My guess is no. You can make a right on red because you're hardly entering the intersection at all, and there's only one place interference can come from - your left. It's similar if you want to make a left on red from one one-way street onto another (this is legal in New York State as well, with the exception of New York City, where even rights on red are illegal unless there's a sign saying it's ok). But if you're making a U-turn, you have to get pretty far into the intersection to execute the turn, and you can get interference from your left, the oncoming direction, and possibly your right.
Also, if there's a red left arrow (not just a red light but an actual red arrow) you can't even make the left, never mind the U-turn.
However, if you have a green left arrow, it's guaranteed that oncoming traffic and traffic to your right would have a red light, so in that case you can make the U-turn.
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08-04-2007, 09:28 PM
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Take a left on red from Lumpkin to Washington for me!
Woo hoo, Athens, Georgia!
(But Athens makes up for this potential left-on-red fun by banning rights on red at other random intersections. I'm pretty sure you can't go right on red at Baldwin and Lumpkin, right? I know I got a pretty pricey ticket and got pulled over into what used to be the health center (but is now the Romance Language department, I think) while I was there. It was kind of embarrassing for a lot of reasons.)
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08-04-2007, 10:03 PM
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Logic has nothing to do with it.
What does the law in your state say?
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08-04-2007, 11:06 PM
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Are you really that stupid?
Answer to your post is no, right turn on red only after stop!
If I was in my Police car and saw you do that, well, a ticket! 
You Obey the lights.
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08-04-2007, 11:08 PM
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Usaually U-Turns will follow along the same lines!
They are dangerous and can get you and others killed! 
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08-04-2007, 11:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Earp
Are you really that stupid?
Answer to your post is no, right turn on red only after stop!
If I was in my Police car and saw you do that, well, a ticket!
You Obey the lights. |
Tom Earp, did YOU just call me stupid?
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08-04-2007, 11:14 PM
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Tom Earp, did YOU just call me stupid?
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I believe he did. And yet he claims that other people are so rude.
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08-05-2007, 01:09 PM
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Tom Earp, did YOU just call me stupid?
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LOL.
The correct answer to this is, "Pot, this is my friend Kettle...what color are you today?"
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08-05-2007, 01:15 PM
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LOL.
The correct answer to this is, "Pot, this is my friend Kettle...what color are you today?"
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Well that would feel like I was admitting to being stupid myself in the first place.
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08-05-2007, 11:08 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Earp
Are you really that stupid?
Answer to your post is no, right turn on red only after stop!
If I was in my Police car and saw you do that, well, a ticket!
You Obey the lights. |
You're in Missouri, Tom. She's in Georgia. Traffic laws vary from state to state, especially with regard to u-turns, right-on-red, left-on-red and similar laws.
minDyG, the Georgia Driver's Manual (p. 40) specifically mentions right-on-red and left-on-red, but says nothing about u-turns-on-red. With regard to left-on-red, it specifically conditions that right as follows: "from the left lane of a one way street only onto a one way street on which the traffic moves toward the driver’s left." A u-turn is not a left turn, nor are you turning onto a one-way street that moves to your left, so it would not seem to satisfy this condition.
The only mention of u-turns in the book (p. 44) says "Do not make a U-turn where signs prohibit doing so." Arguably, a red light is a sign or signal prohibiting any movement, except for right- or left- turns as allowed.
I would assume it's not legal unless something can be found specifically saying that it is.
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08-05-2007, 12:00 PM
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Isn't the only move legal at a red light is a right hand turn unless otherwise noted?
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08-05-2007, 12:14 PM
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No, I am in Kansas! 
I guess you could do a U-Turn if not caught or T-Boned! 
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08-05-2007, 02:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by smiley21
Isn't the only move legal at a red light is a right hand turn unless otherwise noted?
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It depends on the state.
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No, I am in Kansas! |
Sorry. Thought you were on the Missouri side.
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08-05-2007, 09:54 PM
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Isn't the only move legal at a red light is a right hand turn unless otherwise noted?
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It depends on the State.
Like, I believe MysticCat said--- In my city, you are allowed to make a left hand turn on a red IF the street your turning on is a one way heading left.
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08-04-2007, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum
Take a left on red from Lumpkin to Washington for me!
Woo hoo, Athens, Georgia!
(But Athens makes up for this potential left-on-red fun by banning rights on red at other random intersections. I'm pretty sure you can't go right on red at Baldwin and Lumpkin, right? I know I got a pretty pricey ticket and got pulled over into what used to be the health center (but is now the Romance Language department, I think) while I was there. It was kind of embarrassing for a lot of reasons.)
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You can go right on red there now, but that could easily be a recent development. The left on red that I most often would do was left onto Hull from Washington.
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