Two-way left turn lanes can improve both safety and travel efficiency. The obvious benefit is for the driver on the main road ...

A left lane on the highway is also called the passing lane, but is it safe to stay there even if you're not planning to go ...

So go ahead and make that left turn into the two-way left turn lane. This story was originally published June 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM. Related Stories from Bellingham Herald ...

A two-way left turn lane is intended to move left-turning vehicles out of the lanes of travel so other drivers don’t get backed up while a person waits for a gap in oncoming traffic to turn into ...

Last month, I shared an experience in which I encountered a motorist who was in the far right lane of a one-way street and wanted to make a left turn across two traffic lanes. The column generated ...

You’ve got to be in the leftmost left-turn lane in order to conduct that U-turn and, of course, you’ve got to make sure there’s no signage saying you can’t. If you have a traffic question ...

Dear Action Line: It is quite common on north Main for a car turning left out of a business to use the middle turn lane as a merge lane or a place to stop and wait for a traffic opening. I have wi ...

Dear Action Line: Why is the left turn lane into Bodo on northbound U.S. Highway 550/160 almost three times longer than the left turn lane onto U.S. Highway 160 west just up the road? If my quick ...

A: It's called a two-way left turn lane, so I get why you'd conclude that it's only for left turns. And you're right about that. But here's where you got off track - how the word "turn" is used in ...

A two-way left turn lane is intended to move left-turning vehicles out of the lanes of travel so other drivers don’t get backed up while a person waits for a gap in oncoming traffic to turn into ...