Jughandles are just so odd, aren't they? I'll be encountering them again later this month, when I drive out to NJ to see my mom and brother. I guess they make sense if you don't want to use a left turn lane, but I've never seen that solution used elsewhere. Mom also has a traffic circle (aka rotary) on the main road to her subdivision that's fun to drive through during evening rush hour.

We moved to NJ when I was young and I went through HS there. My view may have been skewed - it was a very uncongenial town and I got out as fast as I could and went back only when necessary.

Jughandles are AWESOME. I feel bad for the rest of the country. Don't you wish the mob had sweetheart by-the-mile deals in your states? If only for the jug handles?

I was just out in Indiana and went by three gaps in the concrete median before I decided that must be where they want us to turn left... no signs, no painted arrows, no dashes on the pavement. Just a gap in the median. On a fairly major road.

Traffic circles are of the devil.

Jughandles are just so odd, aren't they? I'll be encountering them again later this month, when I drive out to NJ to see my mom and brother. I guess they make sense if you don't want to use a left turn lane, but I've never seen that solution used elsewhere.

Some parts of Michigan have this weird set-up where instead of turning left you're supposed to go past your intersection then make a U-turn and and go right. But I know not of this jughandle thing.

instead of turning left you're supposed to go past your intersection then make a U-turn and and go right.

That's New Orleans. There are large sections of New Orleans where you can't turn left.

It's a good thing Donna Noble didn't live in New Orleans.

The concept of jughandles being safer than an advanced green arrow and cutting down on traffic piling up for a left turn is horse poo.

Most of the jughandles are so badly labled that even knowing where they are roughly, I still end up missing it, turning right too early, and then, as I'm entering a hairpin turn, I'm crossing three lanes of merging traffic all wanting to go left, straight and right from various points of entry and crossing and merging all in the space of ten feet. I was once on a jug handle that spelled "&"

There was a jughandle that I always tried to avoid because it was basically another left turn with only one car length to get in and dodge traffic.

"Jughandles" - out of context, and being solidly from the Left Coast, this meant nothing to me. Totally mystified.

Suddenly TRAFFIC PATTERNS enters the conversation, and while I think I know more, I'm also more CONFUSED.

Jughandle: [link]

Juliebird: Thank you! And...interesting. I think if you did that in Seattle it would cause automotive mayhem similar to Snow (just SAY that word and watch traffic back up for 3 hours; I'm not kidding - happened last winter, one radio weather forecaster mentioned the possibility of snow (that never fell), traffic went straight to perdition)

Jughandles are dogs-and-cats-living-together.