Correct. On weekends there is often a sufficient gap that one can find a gap and merge into it and across it without much negotiation, if the cluter of vehicles get to you before complete, then they slow. However it is my rush hour commutes where there seems to be a constant flow of traffic, so negotiate (agressively) I must.

Anyway the fine tuning was about if you get to the left turn entance before the stripe goes away and there are no medians or inner curbs. Do you go into the center lane or hold up faster traffic until you get to the official left turn lane entrance
Al