"Clive D. W. Feather" wrote in message
...
In article , Roland Perry
writes
Box junctions. These have criss-cross yellow lines painted on the road
(see Other road markings section). You MUST NOT enter the box until your
exit road or lane is clear. However, you may enter the box and wait when
you want to turn right, and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming
traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right.

It seems to me that this advice is rather naive, because it assumes that
the only impediment to the "car in front of you that's also waiting to
turn right" is the flow of oncoming traffic - which will eventually
stop.

The wording appears to have changed. It *was* something like "...
oncoming traffic going ahead or also turning right". In other words,
*one* car can wait on the box to turn right from each direction, but
that's all; the second car in each queue must wait to enter the box,
just as when going straight ahead.

Is this one of those cases where the London habit of turning right involves
passing off-side to off-side with the other turning traffic, instead of the
system used everywhere else of passing nearside to nearside? The other
traffic waiting to turn right may be travelling in the opposite direction.
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Terry Harper
http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/