Description
At North Williams Lake Road approaching Gale Road, northbound traffic must merge from two lanes to one lane in the curve where the road turns east. It is currently signed so as to direct traffic to merge from the right lane into the left lane. It should be signed so that vehicles in the left lane are directed to merge into the right lane. The concrete joints show that the left lane peters out and the right lane maintains full width indicating to me that this is how the engineers originally envisioned the traffic movement. As currently signed, it encourages vehicles to drive in the passing (left) lane rather than staying in the correct (right) driving lane, forcing folks to pass slower left lane traffic on the right. This revision would only require changes in two standard signs.
5 Comments
Paul (Guest)
cj7ole (Guest)
Road Commission (Guest)
Comment from Road Commission traffic engineer:
The concrete joint between the lanes does not completely eliminate the right or left lane prior to coming to the end of the concrete where the bituminous surface begins and the lane ending taper continues. The joint appears to split the lanes almost equally. Once on the bituminous surface, the situation is positively observable as the right lane ending. Also, the road has been opened and signed as the right lane ends for several years and I'm not inclined to change anything at this point without ever receiving any other request to do so.
- Road Commission for Oakland County
cj7ole (Guest)
I appreciate you response, thank you. I understand your reasoning for not changing the signing several years later, however I stand by my reasoning that it was incorrectly signed from the beginning and I will continue to drive in the right lane, and will merge properly, yielding to those in the left lane.
I course I am in the camp that wonders why only Michigan traffic experts believe that the "Michigan left turn" is so great.
Using my Brain (Guest)