In urban areas, avoiding left turns might mean traveling an extra block, but this doesn’t necessarily add time to the trip.

Vikash Gayah: When you make a left turn, you have to cross oncoming traffic. When you have a green light, you need to wait for a gap in the oncoming traffic before turning left. If you misjudge when ...

If you’re stopped in the middle of an intersection waiting for a gap to make your turn, you’ve set yourself up for all those points of conflict, all at once.

Drivers are still OK to turn left if they're in an intersection on red as long as the intersection is clear. Officer K'Lee Arredondo is a motorcycle officer for the Tempe Police Department.

If you’re an intersection creeper (like me), you’re trying to turn left on a green light in an intersection with no left turn arrow and maybe no designated turn lane.

For years, it was a relatively innocuous four-way intersection with a single left-turn lane. My family and I used to stop every year at a small produce stand, Nancy’s, on the corner.

The left turn is about to get white-glove treatment in Douglas County. This week, the first of three “continuous-flow intersections” opens for business on a nearly three-mile stretch of U.S ...

For years, she said, the intersection has been dangerous, with cars speeding and making left turns, leading to many accidents. Elson's life changed dramatically on May 3, 2020.

The left-turn devices have also been key, the agency said. At five River North intersections where they were tested in 2019, crashes went down by 24%, according to CDOT.