Originally Posted by
CliffordK
It reminds me a lot of this Russian video.
Dang, that's scary! Fortunately my situation was starting from a red light, so less momentum involved and more time to react.
With all those white stripes, there is another lane appearing just beyond that. So, the truck merely had to go straight (much like the truck in the Russian incident), through the white striped area, while you were expected to cut to the right.
You're right, I forgot about that. That's why he didn't have to worry about car traffic. And he probably didn't conceive that I was planning to "cross" in front of his intended path.
The road could use a lot better markings. Perhaps GREEN bike path paint, and a solid curved line on the pavement clearly indicating an obligatory right turn.
Yeah, there is an intersection very close to there that recently added solid green bike path paint to mark where a right-turn-only lane develops and bikes have to cross it. And I would love to have that a couple hundred yards back in this situation as well. But in this case, up at the actual intersection, regular traffic is legally right-turn-only bound for the freeway, so it's not normally a problem. Solid white lines 'enforcing' the right-turn-only wouldn't hurt, but they probably wouldn't help either. This guy obviously knew he was being forced onto the freeway and didn't want to do it, so he made his illegal move.
I have only my oldest kid driving right now, but I taught him, if he's ever in a situation where he has to make an unwanted turn or exit, vs making a sudden maneuver, just take the turn and then take time to safely figure out how to get back.