I was in USA , and it confoosed me to see that I had to turn right where I wanted to go left... so I googled around,, and I found way more than I thought was researched on turning left.
In my day to day riding, driving.. I try to plan to go west when everyone else is heading east... and to make the turn one road before everyone else.. and to find the other entrance into the car show... I just hate waiting in line.
I do try to avoid left turns... but I am going to think more about 3 right turns...
seems turning left on a bike can be a killer......... sigh ...
here is UPS thoughts ... and more..
https://www.thestar.com/business/2014/04/07/why_ups_said_no_to_left_turns.html
Drivers stuck in traffic while waiting to turn left, take note: making three right turns makes better sense.
At least that’s what package delivery company United Parcel Service has figured out.
The company, whose bread and butter is getting parcels to destinations quickly, has reduced left turns, creating efficiencies and cost savings on their gasoline bills.
“Left turns are always a last resort,” said Gordon Reed, director of customer solutions for UPS Canada. “We design our whole routes to turn right. The rationale behind it is you idle less and you’re not sitting, waiting at lights.
“You can do more stops in an hour than if you are turning left.”
The company, with its signature brown trucks and delivery staff in brown uniforms, moves 16 million packages a day worldwide. By having trucks avoid left turns, UPS learned it saved time, conserved fuel and boosted safety.
In the old days, managers plotted routes on maps, but with computer software, they now design them to include loops, avoiding as many left-hand turns as possible.
The policy, developed by a UPS engineer, has been around for years, and the company says that in the past decade, it saved nearly 38 million litres of gasoline in North America, and cut 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon emissions.
Reed concedes that for small courier companies that do 20 deliveries in a day, the savings wouldn’t be as noticeable as with a UPS truck doing 150 deliveries.
Still, Reed says that when he’s driving his own car, he’ll turn right to avoid sitting at a stoplight if he can, especially if there’s traffic.
“Turning left always takes more time,” he said. “Even if there’s an advance green, only three cars get through, if you’re the seventh one, that may mean it’s two lights until you get through. You may be able to do three rights before you could turn left.”
Canada Post doesn’t have an official policy on left-hand turns, but spokeswoman Anick Losier says the post office avoids left turns to optimize delivery routes.
FedEx also doesn’t have a left-hand rule, but designs routes carefully. Its eco driving program to reduce fuel consumption includes urging drivers to use gentle acceleration, adopt a constant speed and release the accelerator early when approaching a stop.
Reed says the UPS policy was originally adopted to cut costs, but it has had an environmental benefit.
While the left-hand avoidance policy exists, it doesn’t mean a UPS truck will never turn left.
“Every driver, every day is doing a couple of left-hand turns,” Reed said.
“You can never get to a point where you never do any. But all the routes are designed, wherever practical and possible, to not have any
In my day to day riding, driving.. I try to plan to go west when everyone else is heading east... and to make the turn one road before everyone else.. and to find the other entrance into the car show... I just hate waiting in line.
I do try to avoid left turns... but I am going to think more about 3 right turns...
seems turning left on a bike can be a killer......... sigh ...
here is UPS thoughts ... and more..
https://www.thestar.com/business/2014/04/07/why_ups_said_no_to_left_turns.html
Drivers stuck in traffic while waiting to turn left, take note: making three right turns makes better sense.
At least that’s what package delivery company United Parcel Service has figured out.
The company, whose bread and butter is getting parcels to destinations quickly, has reduced left turns, creating efficiencies and cost savings on their gasoline bills.
“Left turns are always a last resort,” said Gordon Reed, director of customer solutions for UPS Canada. “We design our whole routes to turn right. The rationale behind it is you idle less and you’re not sitting, waiting at lights.
“You can do more stops in an hour than if you are turning left.”
The company, with its signature brown trucks and delivery staff in brown uniforms, moves 16 million packages a day worldwide. By having trucks avoid left turns, UPS learned it saved time, conserved fuel and boosted safety.
In the old days, managers plotted routes on maps, but with computer software, they now design them to include loops, avoiding as many left-hand turns as possible.
The policy, developed by a UPS engineer, has been around for years, and the company says that in the past decade, it saved nearly 38 million litres of gasoline in North America, and cut 100,000 metric tonnes of carbon emissions.
Reed concedes that for small courier companies that do 20 deliveries in a day, the savings wouldn’t be as noticeable as with a UPS truck doing 150 deliveries.
Still, Reed says that when he’s driving his own car, he’ll turn right to avoid sitting at a stoplight if he can, especially if there’s traffic.
“Turning left always takes more time,” he said. “Even if there’s an advance green, only three cars get through, if you’re the seventh one, that may mean it’s two lights until you get through. You may be able to do three rights before you could turn left.”
Canada Post doesn’t have an official policy on left-hand turns, but spokeswoman Anick Losier says the post office avoids left turns to optimize delivery routes.
FedEx also doesn’t have a left-hand rule, but designs routes carefully. Its eco driving program to reduce fuel consumption includes urging drivers to use gentle acceleration, adopt a constant speed and release the accelerator early when approaching a stop.
Reed says the UPS policy was originally adopted to cut costs, but it has had an environmental benefit.
While the left-hand avoidance policy exists, it doesn’t mean a UPS truck will never turn left.
“Every driver, every day is doing a couple of left-hand turns,” Reed said.
“You can never get to a point where you never do any. But all the routes are designed, wherever practical and possible, to not have any