ADS-L Digest - 18 Sep 2005 to 19 Sep 2005 (#2005-263)

[James Smith]

There are no jug-handle turns in Utah, but I have seen
them - I just can't remember where - maybe Denver,
maybe Rapid City.  They are not the same as the
Michigan-left described.  A jug-handle turn is a mini
off-ramp, a structure built as part of the road
system: you go through the intersection, turn RIGHT
into the "jug handle" and keep turning right through
270 degrees, ending up on the desired street and
heading the same direction as though having made a
left turn. You still need to cross the road you
started from, but there is usually a traffic light to
facilitate that.

BTW, for the Michigan left to work, doesn't the first
turn need to be a U-turn rather than a simple left?
There's one intersection here in SLC where I often
make a left by going through the intersection, making
a U-turn, returning to the intersection, and turning
right.  Sounds like a "Michigan" left to me.

--- Michael McKernan <mckernan at LOCALNET.COM> wrote:

> Geoff Nathan wrote:
>
> >At 12:01 AM 9/20/2005, James Landau wrote:
> >> >> Driving Tips for our 2006 Superbowl  Guests:
>
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >> >> 17.  The left turn is simple. If you want to
> turn left, go a 1/4 of
> >> a  mile
> >> >> past your turn, get to the left, then make a
> left, then make a  right.
> >> >> NOW you have gone left.
> >> >>
> >And, on a serious note, this kind of turn is
> referred to as a 'Michigan
> >Left'.  I believe the term is unique to MI, but I
> don't have the time this
> >afternoon to do the research.  I just read a claim
> in the Free Press that
> >the institution was invented in Michigan in the
> fifties in response to some
> >bad fatalities after ordinary left turns.
>
> I'm told that this turn originated in New Jersey (no
> authority given),
> where it is called a 'jug handle turn'
> Many of the first Google hits do appear to be from
> NJ (some are MA, perhaps
> elsewhere too)   However, whether 'jug handle turn'
> means the same thing as
> the 'Michigan Left' described above remains to be
> determined.
>
> jug handle turn:  821 Google hits  (not located in
> ADS-L archives)
>
> jughandle turn:   511 Google hits
>
> US EPA: Wet Weather Flow Research: Driving
> Directions
> Make a jug handle turn back onto Woodbridge Avenue,
> heading East. Stay to the
> right after turn and enter before the bus stop. The
> entrance has a sign
> that ...
> www.epa.gov/ednnrmrl/main/directions.htm - 34k -
> Cached - Similar pages
>
> NIKSUN Enterprise Network Surveillance Solutions
> After you have taken the jug-handle turn, make a
> left turn onto Route 1 North;
> Make first right turn onto Executive Drive. Follow
> to end. ...
> www.niksun.com/NJ_Driving.htm - 20k - Cached -
> Similar pages
>
> Directions To Energy Photovoltaics
> Stay in left lane on jug handle turn.) * When you
> continue straight across US 1
> you are now on Bakers Basin Road. * EPV is on left
> hand side, ...
> www.epv.net/directions/directions.html - 26k -
> Cached - Similar pages
>
> Schoor DePalma
> At jughandle turn left to cross Route 9. Entrance to
> Justin Corporate Center is
> on Taylors Mills Road just ahead on the right. ...
> www.schoordepalma.com/_0inter0301/06/66.asp - 23k -
> Cached - Similar pages
>
> MKA-Admissions-Directions
> Follow signs for Bloomfield Avenue
> (Bloomfield/Montclair); left jughandle turn
> Make right turn onto Bloomfield Avenue at traffic
> light ...
> www.montclairkimberley.org/
> pages/admiss/admiss_directions.html - 14k -
> Cached - Similar pages
>
> Embassy Suites Embassy Suites Hotel®
> Piscataway-Somerset, NJ ...
> ... Take the next right-hand jughandle turn for
> Centennial Avenue. ... Take
> the next
> right-hand jughandle turn for Centennial Centennial
> Avenue. ...
> www.extendedstaynetwork.com/
> Maps/Maps.cfm?LocationID=18152 - 30k -
> Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar p
>
>
> Michael McKernan
>


James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.

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