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I need this in my car.

Left-Hand-Turn Elimination

It seems that sitting in the left lane, engine idling, waiting for oncoming traffic to clear so you can make a left-hand turn, is minutely wasteful — of time and peace of mind, for sure, but also of gas and therefore money. Not a ton of gas and money if we’re talking about just you and your Windstar, say, but immensely wasteful if we’re talking about more than 95,000 big square brown trucks delivering packages every day.

When can I get real time info about my route? With all of the exits and entrances that are being opened and closed on any given day around here, it’s a wonder I’m making it to work at all! 🙂

Posted by A.J. on Sunday, December 16, 2007, at 10:05 pm, and filed under Random Thoughts. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can trackback from your blog.

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  1. John | 12/18/2007 at 1:23 pm | Permalink

    Take a visit to Lower Michigan or New Jersey – they have “jughandles” which basically makes left-hand turns illegal (you make a right then a U-turn, or the opposite). We called them “Michigan Lefts.” A pain at first, but after you get used to them, you miss them when they’re gone.