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Florida: Signal required every time you turn, shift lanes

STOPandGO — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:09:59 +0000

What is the exact law when it comes to turn signals? Is it mandatory to use them each time you make a turn?

What is the meaning of a red arrow for right turns? Can you make the turn if the arrow is red or do you treat the red arrow like a stop sign?

Allan Roberts of the Sun Sentinel addresses these questions and more in his column.

Florida: Signal required every time you turn, shift lanes

Note that in New York, home of STOPandGO.org, some of the advice doesn’t apply. There are cases in New York where you are not required to use your turn signal, for example, when you make a turn in the direction indicated by a “turn only” lane. Also, New York requires that drivers stop and wait at right-turn red arrows. However, acknowledging the confusion caused by this type of traffic control, New York has instead began use a red ball and “No Turn on Red” sign instead of a right red arrow.

Speed-limit signs covered

STOPandGO — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:10:45 +0000

Electronic speed-limit signs along an 11-mile stretch of Interstate 4 have been covered as state road officials prepare to test their ability to display changing speed limits.

Speed-limit signs covered

Why aren’t traffic lights better synchronized?

STOPandGO — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:45:06 +0000

“Conditions change, particularly because of the seasonality; so we go out and we use computer programs to try to figure out what the proper progression is because it’s a very complicated mathematical thing trying to get the signals to go particularly when you have traffic going both ways.”

Why aren’t traffic lights better synchronized?