The sign hanging in the sky - "Right Turn from Left Ahead" - Scary to non-locals! It's called a hook turn.
You want to go right - you get in the left lane, when your light goes red you drive ahead and park across the lane going straight ahead, when the intersecting lanes get a green light you blithely drive off in front of those cars - down the intersecting road!
Ah Melbourne's (aka Hookturnistan) famous hook turns, which we all love but others hate! They actually do work! And they give Melbourne drivers a big chance to toot all the people who get them wrong!! LOL
@ankers70 LOL Suzanne - we once got caught in the wrong spot - a policemen came striding over - stopped all the traffic, walked us across, and told us to go home to Qld!! One of our lasting memories! :)
I think that was a bit rude of the policeman really. Interstate relations not always as polite as they should be as has been shown over the past few years!
Having said that, I was once given a police escort out of London complete with flashing lights for having got myself into a confused situation. There was a lot of non-too-polite muttering about Australian drivers at the time! @robz
As a Melburnian, I have had a good laugh about the comments here about driving in Melbourne. The hook turns make crossing in front of trams much easier and are really not all that difficult once you get the hang (or the hook) of them.
So that you won't be put off visiting marvellous Melbourne, here's a little video:
Ian
Having said that, I was once given a police escort out of London complete with flashing lights for having got myself into a confused situation. There was a lot of non-too-polite muttering about Australian drivers at the time!
@robz
So that you won't be put off visiting marvellous Melbourne, here's a little video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh92LirlCf8