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Crosswalk might explain yield sign
By LORRIE LYKINS
Published January 18, 2007
To yield or not to yield? If the sign says yield, then by all means, yield. But one reader wonders to whom is he expected to yield? Rik Monti wrote: "I believe your column addressed the stop requirements for yield signs on right turns at stoplights. "I had been under the impression that no stop was required but, I believe, your column stated that a stop was still required and the sign was to warn people to yield to oncoming traffic which was turning left into the lane of traffic you are turning right into. "But when approaching Gulf Boulevard from westbound Walsingham Road where Walsingham ends in a T, I find a yield sign when turning right onto Gulf Boulevard. "There is no oncoming traffic turning left here. "It certainly seems redundant to have a yield sign to tell me to yield to cross traffic after my stop. I'm confused. Maybe you can help." The Doc took a spin through that intersection. Because there is a pedestrian crosswalk there, that's probably the reason for the yield sign. MORE ON WALSINGHAM Not enough room for an extra turn lane Remember that lengthy project that improved Walsingham Road? Apparently it didn't improve it to everyone's satisfaction. Reader Robyn Dalton writes: "Maybe you can put this bug in the right ear from one very puzzled and annoyed taxpaying driver. "I pass through the intersection of Vonn Road (131st Street) and Walsingham/Ulmerton Road in Largo almost daily. "Construction was just completed on a massive, time-consuming and very inconvenient project to widen the highway. "I absolutely do not understand why, when the road and rights of way were totally torn up, they did not include a turn lane to go east on Walsingham from Vonn. "They have one lane turning west and one to go straight or east. It is absurd not to have a turn lane to hold two or three vehicles, avoiding fuel waste and pollution and keeping traffic moving." Kris Carson of the state Department of Transportation said there was not enough space to include an extra turn lane. "The existing right of way in this area is very tight and did not allow for three lanes (left, through and right lanes)," she said. Lorrie Lykins' Dr. Delay column appears regularly in the South Pinellas editions of the St. Petersburg Times. Please e-mail your traffic concerns, comments and questions to her at docdelay@yahoo.com.
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