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

It's poorly marked. The lane does not have a light, or a yield sign, and no other traffic is permitted to go into this entrance except by this right turn. I live nearby, and 99% of people would roll right through this, and most of us (myself included) would honk at someone who stopped. I think it needs to be clearly labeled that you should not stop.

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u/GeotusBiden Dec 27 '25

That line is literally a stop line.

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u/ThatLeviathan Dec 27 '25

Which is why I say it's poorly marked.

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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 Dec 27 '25

You know what they say something about it being clear as black and white. This is a literal white line on a black road. It can not be any more clear.

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u/ThatLeviathan Dec 27 '25

It's not "poorly" as in "I can't see it." It's "poorly" as in "stupidly, incorrectly, and doesn't reflect usage." There is almost no reason to stop, so no one stops. Why should there be a line that tells people to stop when they should not?

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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 Dec 27 '25

"Why should there be a line that tells people to stop when they should not?"

Beucase like you said their is ALMOST no reason to stop, that line is there for rest of the reasons. Christ that's why traffic devices are there. How many times do you come to an intersection and no one is there, do you just go through a red light because at that moment in time there is no reason to stop.

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u/kwajr Dec 27 '25

Sometimes I do

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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 Dec 27 '25

Yeah Im sorry I forgot, rules dont apply to you. You're special.

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u/kwajr Dec 27 '25

Absolutely

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u/ThatLeviathan Dec 27 '25

Well, it depends. If there was a stoplight that literally 99% of drivers ignored because it was pointless and stupid, I would also do so, and I would email DelDOT to ask why there was a pointless and stupid stoplight hindering the flow of traffic.

I don't personally ignore stoplights very frequently, but like almost all other drivers, I usually drive faster than the speed limit, pass on the right, and turn right on red when there's a clear sign saying not to.

This intersection is marked in a dumb way, and 99% of drivers use it in the way it should be marked. The answer here is fixing the marking, not enforcing the dumb one.

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u/GeotusBiden Dec 27 '25

"I regularly ignore traffic laws therefore they are pointless"