Vocabulary Workshop Level E Answers Unit 4

Turn left, turn right under the snow

The code Canadian road (and by extension, its specificities Alberta) is somewhat different from the rules of the road french, but we made it pretty quickly. Finally, what surprises most is the fact turn right notwithstanding that the light is red. Ca surprised at first, and then we made it. Here the rule is valid almost everywhere in North America, and in all cases throughout Alberta (except-cons indication on the road), it is simple, according to Alberta Drivers Handbook : You can turn right at a red light after a full stop. Clearly, if you want to turn right, the red light stop value. Well, you soon realize that after a few days here. And then he

A few months ago, they told me they could do the same to the left, under the same conditions. Yes, it's surprising (that's the least we can say!) And I've never actually seen anyone doing this (except a way a way, of course) and I 've never done myself, so the maneuver seemed dangerous and not really permitted ... however, was not among those who think they know everything about everything, and was interested in the details around me, I plunged back into the 155 pages of Alberta Drivers Handbook (basic version, the version complete is somewhat more thick:)), and here's what emerges: Turn left a red light, one-way street to another one-way street is permitted. Neither more nor less. So turn a shaft has a double meaning, has a one-way street, a red light is NOT - even to put himself in the 3rd lane, at night in addition - and in any other case involving a two-way street. However, looking a little further, we realize that turning a two-way street, a one-way street, the red light is allowed in BC - but you must put yourself in the lane closest (light, one that is on your left). Finally, some areas of eastern Canada, and 13 of the 50 American States, prohibiting turning left when the light is red, without exception.

Another person, a priori highly trustable (a lawyer), had also said that the permit was not an Alberta license points. Well actually, in time for her, time for me (That'll teach me to believe people's word:)), the Alberta license is a license has 16 points. Loss of possible points range from 2 (a rolling pin on a misinterpretation residential, half-turn forbidden, etc..) To 7 (to escape after an accident), to 5 points to overtake a school bus has the stop with its lights on (= plain, being ready to unload the kids jump on your wheels).