Who has to yield at this junction??

ibstar

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Hi.

Hopefully this is the appropriate section for my question for ruling.
Junction in the screenshot from google maps has 3 yield signs pointing at each different road.
The green one is a slip road which is only controlled by pedestrian crossing and works separate from other traffic lights. This means that the cars are almost always good to go majority of the times.
Blue and Red are connecting roads which are controlled by traffic lights on both sources.
Blue is coming from the main village and Red is coming from a motorway, and both leading towards a shopping center.
Blue and red traffic almost never interact with each other.
It's the green one that always has people confused. I've seen people not letting the green one trough and I've seen people letting them trough.
I used these 3 roads about 10 times since I started driving because it's faster for me to go trough other routes, but always wondered who's right.

Thanks.

Redser87

I know that road interested to see what people will say. I would say blue has right of way over green because they are staying on the main stretch of road coming out of the village. That's the way I've always driven there anyway :eek: sometimes a nice person lets me out if I am at the green yield line and traffic is slow enough for them to leave a gap. I have also let people through in similar circumstances.

cml387

Blue has right of way. The sign on the right and the road markings clearly indicate red must give way.

Paddy@CIRL

Going by the road markings, blue has right of way above both green and red. I would then say green has right of way over red, due to green joining blue route marginally earlier than red.

ibstar

Redser87 wrote: »

I know that road interested to see what people will say. I would say blue has right of way over green because they are staying on the main stretch of road coming out of the village. That's the way I've always driven there anyway :eek: sometimes a nice person lets me out if I am at the green yield line and traffic is slow enough for them to leave a gap. I have also let people through in similar circumstances.

It's a weird phenomenon alright.
I always approached it slow because I've seen cars accelerating behind the first/leading car and suddenly break because 50% of the time the car in the front suddenly stop to allow the green road user to turn, while there are 20 other cars trying to move on from the traffic light behind and accelerating as well

seamus

Blue, then green, then red. From Red's perspective, green is "oncoming traffic" and so they must yield.

Think of the same road without slip roads, but with right-angled T-junctions instead. So you have the main road (blue), a junction where green is turning left, and further down the road a junction where red is turning right. Blue has ROW over green who has ROW over red.
This example is basically the same except with the junctions angled and the counterflow traffic lane removed.

Horrific junction design though. I can't help but feel that one or both of those roads should have intersected at 90 degrees instead of at an angle.

ibstar

-snip to avoid confusion-

Paul.k.b.90

Ahh the good old spaghetti junction in blanch..have the pleasure of passing through it 5-6 times a week..Blue has right way. red and green "normally" yeild :P

JamboMac

Blue has right of way, the other 2 have to yield.

Although the road sign is a little confusing the lines painted on the road, clear the picture up.

28064212

ibstar wrote: »

Junction in the screenshot from google maps has 3 yield signs pointing at each different road.

It doesn't (although I can see why you might think it does). Red road has two Yield signs, one either side of it. Blue road has no yield signs

ibstar

28064212 wrote: »

It doesn't (although I can see why you might think it does). Red road has two Yield signs, one either side of it. Blue road has no yield signs

this solves I think.

Sheldons Brain

Paddy@CIRL wrote: »

Going by the road markings, blue has right of way above both green and red. I would then say green has right of way over red, due to green joining blue route marginally earlier than red.

What he said.

identer

Red should stay put, blue accelerate.