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.

Jughandle: [link]

Huh. I did not know what those were called. Other than annoying. There are a few in the western 'burbs here.

Jughandles in my world are cloverleafs.

I can't remember if I hated Order of Phoenix or Half Blood Prince? Do I want to see it?

Cloverleafs in my world are exit/entrance ramps for a highway. [link]