{"id":763,"date":"2019-07-25T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/?p=763"},"modified":"2019-07-25T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T20:32:46","slug":"traffic-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2019\/07\/25\/traffic-violation\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Violation?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This morning on the way to work after picking up breakfast from McDonald&#8217;s (the one on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"9989 BAYVIEW (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/hYoqiD8YjRWHgg3W8\" target=\"_blank\">9989 BAYVIEW<\/a>), I decided that heading East bound on Major Mackenzie from Bayview to Leslie was too busy, so I decided to turn right onto Boake Trail from Major Mackenzie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After my right turn I was stopped immediately by a police officer. He told me that I was not allowed to turn right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I had a dashcam installed on my car, I replayed the footage and found that there was simply no sign indicating that a right turn is restricted. The matter was even more confusing when there is a dedicated right turn lane. See for yourself below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/DashCamSmall.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>Dashcam Video<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also on <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/bJGLnb3iYSix5NKp6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Google Maps (opens in a new tab)\">Google Maps<\/a>, the no right turn sign is also non-existent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to contest this matter. I am providing this quick blog entry as near to a contemporaneous note as possible of the event this morning in case I need to refresh my memory three months from now in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> My sharp eye wife spotted the no-left turn sign beside the traffic lights. So even with the video and Google Map reference I missed it on multiple, post-event analysis. The dedicated right turn lane threw me off and baited me into the turn, an honest mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on the way to work after picking up breakfast from McDonald&#8217;s (the one on 9989 BAYVIEW), I decided that heading East bound on Major Mackenzie from Bayview to Leslie was too busy, so I decided to turn right onto Boake Trail from Major Mackenzie. After my right turn I was stopped immediately by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/2019\/07\/25\/traffic-violation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traffic Violation?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/ticket-icon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V6i8-cj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lufamily.ca\/kang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}