Originally Posted by
TromboneAl
I'm not sure people will interpret pointing to the ground as meaning "I'm going straight."
I haven't thought of a good hand signal for "I'm going straight." I need this for when I'm on the highway, and I'm going by an exit without taking it. I'd use the left hand in a tomahawk gesture, but there's no guarantee that a driver will know what that means.
I take the red path rather than the blue, but I always watch the cars behind me with my mirror. ...
The only thing worse than a slip lane diverge such as that is a slip lane merge from my right. Many of these lack crosswalks, making the pedestrian (blue) option just as bad as the vehicular (red) path. If traffic is light and/or reasonably slow, I just take the lane (red, or even left of red), but if I know it will likely be fast with no reasonable gaps, I try to work out an alternate bypass route in advance (if such is even available).
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