Who Yields?

[ricematthews]

You are supposed to yield.
That yield sign is not meant to indicate that you only yield only to traffic
heading FROM a particular direction, but rather to all traffic heading
TOWARDS a particular direction.
The island that is there separates your turn lane from the intersection so,
in effect, the light does not directly govern you if you are making a right
turn.
If the left turner needed to yield to you, by the time he got to you, he may
have to stop in the middle of the intersection - creating a potentially
dangerous situation.

Out of curiosity, does the left turner have a left turn arrow?

-Mark

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 Hi all-
Here is a question that has been bugging me for many months.  Here's the
situation:

You approach an intersection and are going to turn right.  The intersection
has a dedicated right turn lane, complete with a small pedestrian island
between the right turn lane and the staight lanes.  The right turn lane has
a YIELD sign and it merges immediately (no extended merge lane) with
traffic.  The lights at the interection are green (both your direction and
oncoming) and nobody has any arrows--just green.There is nobody going
straight in your direction as you enter the right turn --but a car in the
oncoming lanes is turning left to go in the same direction you are going to
be going.  Do you yield to him because you have a yield sign, or does he
yield to you because left turn traffic yields to oncoming?

I'm sure some of this depends on local laws--but I'd love to hear some
thoughts--this bugs me every time I go to lunch.

Brandon
'98 A4
'84 ur