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th city "closed" the matter but nothing was done to address this! I purposely drove over yesterday and the signage has not changes ... and, per usual, I nearly got hit by the car in the leftmost lane driving straight onto the I84 entrance ramp... this is just a disaster waiting to happen.

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Have you noticed that there are four lanes on the east side of Trumbull, then four across the intersection on the west side? It is only logical that the person in the leftmost lane travels across the intersection to the leftmost lane, which is the I-84 onramp. There are three other lanes across the intersection, which the three lanes on the east of Trumbull that you listed should progress directly and respectively into.

The problem is that the arrows on the signs you refer to are ambiguous. One of those signs has two arrows (joined at the bottom), and I doubt it is suggesting "cars in this lane turn into two separate lanes on Trumbull." Rather, one of those arrows is for Trumbull, and one is for the I-84 onramp, which, rather than being in a straight path across the intersection is actually skewed leftward, just like the topmost arrow on the "double-arrow" sign. Neither arrow on the sign is a clean, 90 degree indicator.

It makes no sense that any driver would see four lanes on both sides of an intersection, yet think that an inner lane on one side directs to the outer lane on the other, unless there are arrows or dashes on the roadway to that effect. The signage is the problem, you are driving incorrectly. If as you say, you have nearly died multipole times, it seems like it would be easier to just get onto 84 via the left lane than continually risk your life to prove an (irrational) point.

Of course I have seen how many lanes there are, and I know how to read traffic signs. The sign indicates that the left lane has to make a left onto Trumbull (into one of the two lanes): showing 2 left arrows & no straight line to go across Trumbull on to the highway entrance ramp (which is not at all "leftward" LOL). If the left lane could go EITHER left or straight, there is a symbol for exactly that which uses a left turn and straight arrow together.

I don't care HOW the powers that be correct the signage, but it poses a serious hazard as it presently exists.

I reckon you are one of the people I have to dodge when I am going thru that intersection. Suggesting that I just ignore the signs like is not going to help me when the driver to my right interprets the signs differently and we crash.

You are interpreting the signs wrong. Left lane is for Trumbull & I-84. None of the other lanes are. This isn't the way that most people drive there, but that's what the sign indicates, as does the green interstate sign. The entrance ramp is a soft left. Trumbull is a hard left. The left lane is for that. The right three lanes are for going straight on the Chapel St. N., which is also three lanes.

(1) it is not any kind of left onto I-84: it is directly across the intersection from the left lane; (2) the simple fact is that the signs are UNCLEAR and people are reading them differently every day...no matter which of the two lefterly lanes I am in, the person next to me also wants to head into the I-84 entrance and that is a SINGLE lane...only one lane should be directed there. However they want to fix the signage is fine with me.

I am going to try to upload pics of the intersection and of the road sign which is posted well before the intersection.

here is the sign that is mid-way down the block (there is no signage right at the intersection)

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