Just flipping wait!!

When you’re at a traffic light and there is a lot of traffic, chances are that you wont make it through the light this time. If you sneak through and wait in the middle of the intersection, you are grid locking it.
What that means is that if the light changes so the traffic crossing your path can go, and you haven’t moved, you are blocking the way. How are they supposed to get across? Must they go around you, over you, through you?

What you need to do is not enter the intersection if you cannot get out of it straight away. So wait at the line if there is no space for you on the other side. Then the other people, who have just as much right to be on the road and have a free path as you, can go freely.

If you are in a line of cars in traffic and there is a road to your side, don’t block it in case a car wants to go in or out of that road. If your lane is standing still there is no need for another road to be blocked because of you. It is a simple, courteous movement that will allow traffic to flow freely in some places even if yours is not. Who knows, perhaps the reason yours isn’t flowing is because someone gridlocked or didn’t give a gap when they could have….