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Lane use: straight or left

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Lane use: straight or left

What it means

Traffic in this lane may go straight through or turn left. If you are in a designated lane you must follow the direction the arrows indicate.

White with black or red; a red circle with a slash means prohibited, a green circle means permitted.

Summarised from ICBC’s Learn to Drive Smart. Read the original: Signs signals and road markings ↗

How to recognise it

A black square with a white arrow that points straight up and branches to the left.

Where you will see it

Over or beside the left lane before an intersection where it is shared by through and left-turning traffic.

What to do when you see it

  1. 1.From this lane you may go straight through or turn left, but not right.
  2. 2.Pick your lane before the intersection and stay in it while you are crossing.

On the knowledge test

Read each arrow: whatever is not drawn is not allowed from this lane.

Practice questions for this sign

Sign

You are in a lane marked with this sign but you want to turn right. When may you move out of the lane?