The new stop lights in the left-turn lanes where Interstate 480 spills onto Granger Road look strange. The traditional red circle? Gone. In its place glows a red left-turn arrow.

A Sacramento Bee reader had a similar thought, and asked our journalists whether motorists can turn left against a red arrow if there isn’t a sign around it that says “on left arrow only.” ...

Signs saying “Left turn yield on flashing yellow arrow” must be mounted on signals’ mast arms for a minimum of six months after the arrow signal is installed on a state road.

“When encountering a left turn arrow, it is to be treated as a red light.” The reason it’s an arrow is because it designates the direction you’re traveling, he added.

Reader Pat Daly contacted the Doc about what she views to be misleading overhead signs on the frontage road that takes traffic that has exited from northbound U.S. 19 toward access to Bryan Dairy ...

Poor signage on new road Skip to ... If you are heading eastbound in the far left lane, about 1/4 mile from the Golden Sage intersection there is one left turn arrow painted on the road.

“You can turn left on red onto a one-way as long as it’s clear and that red light is not a red arrow,” Williams said. The one-way road must be traveling left, but after a complete stop, you ...