TRAFFIC: Left turn off highway is dangerous
This letter is in response to a letter I received after my presentation regarding left-hand turns into the shopping center near Kohl’s off of Prairie Avenue. As they stated in their letter, the turn into a private driveway across solid double yellow lines is not illegal. However, it is extremely dangerous! To be making left-hand turns into a private driveway so close to an intersection, where there is no dedicated left-turn lane, and crossing over three lanes of oncoming traffic, some of which can’t be seen while making a left-hand turn into the driveway.
While this is not an illegal turn, I would like to state that driving a car without a seatbelt at some point in time was not illegal either. However, people in government decided that it was a safety issue important enough to save lives to make it now illegal to drive without a seatbelt on. But the Lakes Highway District in their infinite wisdom has decided that they cannot afford to put in a barrier down the median to keep people from turning left at that point, when they can drive down a few feet farther in a turn lane and do so much safer.
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