{"id":18135,"date":"2015-08-31T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T10:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18135"},"modified":"2015-08-31T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T10:32:59","slug":"the-cold-season-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=18135","title":{"rendered":"The Cold Season Starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone found the blog today on this search term:<\/p>\n

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lane is marked obe route only do i beed ro ibdicate<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I didn\u2019t realise that catching a cold could carry over into someone\u2019s typing. Either that, or they were typing in the dark (I hope and pray they weren\u2019t doing it while they were driving, though that\u2019s an increasingly likely problem these days).<\/p>\n

The translation is:<\/p>\n

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lane is marked one route only do I need to indicate?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What this person is asking is to do with road markings and left-only and right-only arrows. The short answer is no. If the lane only goes in one direction and is marked as such then there is technically no need to indicate.\"Lane<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not quite as simple as that, though. You have to ask yourself if the direction the lane goes is clearly visible to everyone behind you \u2013 visitors who may not know what you know, for example. And does the volume of traffic make it hard for people to see the arrows on the road?<\/p>\n

I suspect the question is related to someone\u2019s driving test, quite possibly because they have already failed one, or because they\u2019re starting to worry about one they have booked. The first thing I\u2019d do is ask your driving instructor \u2013 he should know what to do at the junction in question. If you\u2019re not taking lessons with an ADI then you could phone your local test centre and ask for advice. The examiners are usually only to glad to help and they usually know the area well. Unless you clear it up directly with them, the problem you have is knowing what the examiners expect, and this can vary from centre to centre and around the country. There is no absolute answer, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

With my own pupils on lessons, if they don\u2019t indicate in a situation where they really didn\u2019t need to (but could have), I always try to get to the bottom of why \u2013 did they decide it wasn\u2019t needed, or did they just forget?<\/p>\n

Something I always point out, though, is:<\/p>\n