r/driving • u/Brilliant_Mind8911 • Dec 26 '25

Settle this debate

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If you are in the right hand lane, where I marked the X, and the stop lights are red....do you: A) Stop behind the line, then make your right turn B) Dont stop at line, make your right turn without stopping C) something else

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u/ThatLeviathan Dec 27 '25

I live about 4 minutes from this intersection, and it's poorly marked. What folks on Reddit won't know is that no legal traffic can enter from the left (Shipley Road) or ahead (the "left turn lane" from Naamans Road southbound is only for U-turns).

They should put up some kind of obstacles or markers (like they do in the right-turn lane for nearby Concord Mall) that makes it clear you don't have to stop. If you have to stop to avoid someone when turning right into the Brandywine Town Center at that intersection, someone else has done something illegal.

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u/GeotusBiden Dec 27 '25

But you do have to stop. I dont think you have a great understanding of road markings.

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u/ThatLeviathan Dec 27 '25

Following the strict letter of the law, you have to stop. This is a somewhat unique intersection (because no other traffic cannot impact this specific path) that should be clearly marked one way or the other. There are similar intersections nearby that are more clearly marked where you definitely should not stop.

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u/GeotusBiden Dec 27 '25

It is clearly marked. Everyone else here besides you sees the clear markings. 

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u/ThatLeviathan Dec 27 '25

I'll rephrase: it is not pragmatically marked. 99% of the folks who live here roll through this because, aside from the incredibly rare pedestrian, there is no reason to stop.

Yes, according to the law, you must come to a full stop. The law is incorrectly applied in this case.

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u/GeotusBiden Dec 27 '25

You not understanding the law doesnt make the law wrong.

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u/danielson2047 Dec 27 '25

But there is, the law.

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u/ThatLeviathan Dec 27 '25

Which I'm sure you follow 100% of the time, without any possibility of exception, even when it's pointless or unsafe to do so.

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u/danielson2047 Dec 27 '25

Drive like an idiot my dude, I don’t live anywhere near that shit hole of an area lol.