• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    Yes, green means go!11! Even there’s an old lady that just didn’t finish crossing yet, she just had to do it in the few seconds allowed.

    My favorite one is people honking at other drivers for not blocking an intersection because “it’s green!”. I don’t know the term in English but in French it’s a mix of intersection and blocage. Like, if the light is green but there is no space to advance because of gridlock, some apparently like to make it worse by advancing their car in an intersection and sit there while it turns red, and thus blocking the intersection. BuT It WaS GreEn!

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      “Don’t block the box” is the common saying for the law in the states.

      You draw a square in the intersection and that’s a “don’t stop here” zone.

      Folks will pull into it and wait, and they block the view for anyone behind them too.

      “Gridlock” is the term for when a street is fully locked up and cars are blocking the intersections