jerezano
Sep 25, 2005, 7:25 PM
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Hello,
It is a Texas law that a person travelling on a one way street at an intersection with a one way street going to the left MAY INDEED make a left turn and go left on that one way street, after a stop, due concern for pedestrians, and oncoming traffic even if the light is red unless there is a sign prohibiting a turn on a red light. Hardly anybody knows this.
The right turn on red after stop seems to be known by every Winter Texan and native Texan but not by Mexican visitors.
Note carefully that both the street you are on and the intersecting street to the left MUST be one way streets to make that left turn. A turn to the right after stop may be made from a two way street into a two way street.
Now A: "Si, siempre y cuando se provenga e ingrese a calles de un solo sentido de circulacion, previo alto total, respetando la prelacion de paso del peaton, sin que exista senalamiento que lo prohiba y que no sea vehiculo de servicio colectivo publico de pasajeros." Translates more or less as
Yes, always and when one is exiting from and entering onto one way streets, after a total stop, due care to the passage of pedestirians, and without a sign showing that the left turn is prohibited on a red light and that the vehicle you are driving is not a public transport vehicle.
Again note carefully that the street you are on and the intersecting street to the left MUST both be one way streets. Neither can you be driving a taxi, a pesero, a bus or any other vehicle in which you are transporting passengers for hire.
This is equivalent to the Texas law referred to above.
BUT, I recommend you don't try it. Answer the question correctly on the examination, but don't try to put it into practice. After all, in Guadalajara as in Mexico City, the transitos are looking for mordidas. A tourist friend of mine received a bite on two consecutive days at different sites in Guadalajara for doing exactly the same things that the Mexican cars we were following did in front of those same two policemen. One was to make a right turn into a Y in the right lane with the painted arrow and no semaphores. Exactly what everyone else was doing and exactly what the signals said to do. Sometimes you can't win even if you don't give the transitos a chance to bite. They will bite anyway.
Adios. jerezano.
(This post was edited by jerezano on Sep 25, 2005, 7:34 PM)
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