{"id":1051,"date":"2018-01-03T15:43:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2018-01-03T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T15:44:38","slug":"drivers-baffled-by-concept-of-left-turn-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"Drivers baffled by concept of left-turn lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture3333.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1052\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture3333-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture3333-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Capture3333.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 The intersection of Walker Road and Ottawa Street somehow\u00a0 repeatedly\u00a0confuses drivers in the Windsor area.\u00a0\u00a0 When headed north towards Wyandotte Street while traveling on Walker Road motorists encounter a left-turn lane to Ottawa Street but nearly 30% of drivers proceed straight even though they are in the turning lane.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an amazing phenomenon\u201d says Professor\u00a0James Douglas who has studied the area for some time during his weekly trip to the LCBO store. \u201cSomehow a large number of Windsor drivers hallucinate at that corner and think they are supposed to go straight and cut-off all vehicles in the right-hand lane\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m assuming it must be some sort of mass hallucination. Perhaps due to the alignment of the planets or the earth\u2019s magnetic pull affecting this area that provides certain drivers with some kind of tunnel vision where they also\u00a0lose their ability to read street signs and follow basic rules of the road\u201d Professor Douglas theorized, adding \u201cThe only other possible answer is that some people are just dicks when they drive\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 The intersection of Walker Road and Ottawa Street somehow\u00a0 repeatedly\u00a0confuses drivers in the Windsor area.\u00a0\u00a0 When headed north towards Wyandotte Street while traveling on Walker Road motorists encounter a left-turn lane to Ottawa Street but nearly 30% &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1051\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}