As this relates to the example at Hennepin Avenue, the offended driver should join in. It's been used like this for years and more cars are allowed through the intersection with each light cycle... win/win.
It may be win/win, but I am looking for some kind of official statement on whether this is legal, not whether it is efficient.
I once got into an accident because somebody tried to pass me on a residential street. Hey, there was no oncoming traffic, and apparently I was going too slow for the driver behind me, so passing me on the left used the roadway most efficiently to move the most traffic. Of course, being illegal as far as I can tell, people really don't expect this to happen, and accidents result.
I'm not right at the corner of Franklin and Hennepin, so I can't see it exactly, but I am pretty sure there are a few parking meters before the intersection with Franklin, as well as a bus stop. There is no indication that the unmarked lane closest to the curb is meant to be a through lane to the 94 entrance ramp. Just because everybody uses it as such doesn't make it legal, and it can throw people who are unfamiliar to the area for a loop if that is how people use it. Not to mention all the times I have been in the real right lane, getting ready to move over to the entrance ramp, when somebody zooms up on my right from the intersection trying to cut me off.
I just want to know if this is legal, not whether it is efficient.
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Nathan Hunstad
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Minneapolis, MN
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