"Dubya-04"
Today (Friday, April 13, 2007, Friday-the-13th), after attending the vaunted Canandaigua YMCA, and mighty Weggers, I was returning home on Lakeshore Blvd., Routes 5&20, south of Canandaigua.
Proceeding west, Lakeshore intersects with the main-drag (north-south) through Canandaigua, and continues up a hill on the Canandaigua Bypass, a new road built a few years ago, so that east-west 5&20 traffic could avoid going through Canandaigua.
That there intersection is huge; at least six lanes each side, with three each approaching. Each side is two lanes with a separate third left-turn lane, and each left-turn lane is separately signaled with a left-turn arrow.
Since so many cars are turning left, the north and south are separately signaled; i.e. each side gets a separate green, so that only one side has a green at a time.
Only the east-west traffic is signaled so that both sides can move; except that if a left-turn lane is occupied, only that side can move, so that a left-turn is not impeded.
If both left-turn lanes are occupied, only the left-turn lanes can move.
Proceeding west, Lakeshore intersects with the main-drag (north-south) through Canandaigua, and continues up a hill on the Canandaigua Bypass, a new road built a few years ago, so that east-west 5&20 traffic could avoid going through Canandaigua.
That there intersection is huge; at least six lanes each side, with three each approaching. Each side is two lanes with a separate third left-turn lane, and each left-turn lane is separately signaled with a left-turn arrow.
Since so many cars are turning left, the north and south are separately signaled; i.e. each side gets a separate green, so that only one side has a green at a time.
Only the east-west traffic is signaled so that both sides can move; except that if a left-turn lane is occupied, only that side can move, so that a left-turn is not impeded.
If both left-turn lanes are occupied, only the left-turn lanes can move.
So here we are stopped on 5&20 (Lakeshore), and both left-turn lanes are occupied — meaning eventually the left-turn lanes will get arrows together, while the straight traffic will be stopped.
The left-turn arrows activate, and a large Jeep Wagoneer starts gingerly through the intersection turning left, but all-of-a-sudden has to stop short.
An ancient Sube has started straight across the intersection, running the red-light.
Horns blare, and the Sube-driver gives the Wagoneer-driver the finger.
I glanced at the rear hatch of the fast-disappearing Sube, and sure enough: “Dubya-04.”
posted by BobbaLew at 4:17 PM
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