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Two Step Moped Turn
This diagram explains in more detail, how moped bikes (pic coming up) when making a right turn at an intersection, must stick to the left side of the lane, then drive to the front of the queued traffic waiting to the left to cross intersection next. Then, when light turns green for that flow of traffic, the moped can drive straight, thereby accomplishing its initial desire to turn right. Thus a moped must wait two light changes to make a right hand turn at an intersection! Hope that makes sense?
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Jimc No. It doesn't make sense. In Japan, you drive on the left. This diagram is right lane driving.
Anne Onymous I think I get it from the description; in some other places this is called a "hook turn", due to the shape of the vehicle's path when seen from above. The diagram on this page shows a similar operation for turning left while driving on the right. I'll describe the operation for a vehicle driving on the left, which is heading from south to north at the start of the operation, and wants to turn right, ending up heading east. The turning vehicle moves into the leftmost north-heading lane, crosses most of the intersection (moving slightly to the left to keep the south-north lane clear) and stops in front of the northernmost (from their new perspective, leftmost) east-heading lane (step 1). They then wait for the east-heading lights to change to green. When the light changes, the vehicle crosses the intersection heading east as if it had approached normally from the west (step 2).