Originally posted by JonR
... the car behind me will charge on ahead when the light turns green again, trapping me between him and the car to my left. I tend more often just to take the entire lane now, because of this unpredictable behavior...
This has happened only once to me, but it was very disconcerting. The trick is to position yourself all the way up to the limit line and just left enough to allow right-turning motorists to squeeze through. You don't want to sit so far to the left that a nonturning motorist can squeeze past you without having to execute an extremely awkward zig-zag motion.
My British friends refer to passing on the inside (i.e., on the left in the U.S. or the right in the U.K.) as "overtaking," and passing on the outside as "undertaking." I think I like the terminology ...