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Great left turn

  • September 29th, 2010

I'm glad to have lived long enough to see a Minister of Transport courageous enough to risk returning us to left turn priority – for me the intuitively correct position.

I was overseas decades ago when New Zealand went right. I've never been confident at intersections since, one of those who just waits to see who will take the initiative and go. I politely wave other drivers to go, not because I am genuinely more patient, but simply because I can never be confident that I know who should go.

It does not help that I do not immediately know left from right. I know what side of the road I should be on, but have to imagine myself at the piano to be sure of which is my left hand and which is my right.

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  • peterquixote
  • October 3rd, 2010
  • 2:19 pm

Stephen here shows he is  a right handed directional dyslexic
"   It does not help that I do not immediately know left from right. I know what side of the road I should be on, but have to imagine myself at the piano to be sure of which is my left hand and which is my right  ".
You have to turn left in France, should you give way.

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  • Bob Kinzett (Kruger)
  • October 4th, 2010
  • 10:38 pm

I too, remember the days when sanity prevailed and the introduction of the Left-Hand Turn Give Way was unfathomable… Even over here in Oz, I still have to really concentrate when turning left, remembering that I've got right of way over that chap turning right across the main road and line of traffic, into the same street as me…

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