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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / March 2005Illegal 3-Point U-Turns in Alameda
I suppose this makes sense, but how often do cops give tickets for it? In Alameda,CA, the police have been known to give tickets for drivers making 3-point U-turns in a driveway in commericial zones. OK, a U-Turn is illegal, but a 3-pt turn? The reason is....the car must violate private property to execute the turn. But is it a moving violation or trespassing? > I suppose this makes sense, but how often do cops give tickets for it? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > must violate private property to execute the turn. But is it a moving > violation or trespassing? It may be the rarely used law about using private property to bypass traffic -- the same as it being illegal to drive through a corner gas station to bypass a blocked right-turn lane. Another possibility is that the left turn into the driveway is illegal. Is there a double-solid line?  SignatureThis account is subject to a persistent MS Blaster and SWEN attack. I think I've got the problem resolved, but, if you E-mail me and it bounces, a second try might work. However, please reply in newsgroup. >Another possibility is that the left turn into the driveway >is illegal. Is there a double-solid line? Since when it is illegal to make a left turn across a double solid yellow line in CA? SignatureWhen are you people going to wake up to the fact that rebates are a SCAM? > >Another possibility is that the left turn into the driveway > >is illegal. Is there a double-solid line? > > Since when it is illegal to make a left turn across a double solid > yellow line in CA? In a commercial district? Into a driveway? Well, maybe. A number of cities have stated it is illegal to make a U turn into an angled street parking space. I don't know whether it IS illegal. We may also have an FUD ticket here -- enough people will believe the ticket is valid, and pay it, to cover the costs of the lawsuit against the city when it is discovered that the tickets are invalid. SignatureThis account is subject to a persistent MS Blaster and SWEN attack. I think I've got the problem resolved, but, if you E-mail me and it bounces, a second try might work. However, please reply in newsgroup. > > >Another possibility is that the left turn into the driveway > > >is illegal. Is there a double-solid line? [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > costs of the lawsuit against the city when it is discovered > that the tickets are invalid. I heard thats a ticket in San Francisco. I think its the Clement area. They have those angle parking slots. You can't make a U-Turn in a commerical zone. So people think they can make a left turn into a parking slot, but are actaully making a U-Turn and going in the opposite direction. > >Another possibility is that the left turn into the driveway > >is illegal. Is there a double-solid line? > > Since when it is illegal to make a left turn across a double solid > yellow line in CA? Its not....the big deal is using a private driveway to complete a turn-around. I just wanted to know if this is enforced anywhere else. > I suppose this makes sense, but how often do cops give tickets for it? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > must violate private property to execute the turn. But is it a moving > violation or trespassing? If there's a NO U-TURN sign, it's "using private property to evade a traffic control device." Otherwise there is no violation unless the property owner objects. |
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