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On my old commute, there was this one really long red light with a u-turn and merging road to the right you could take. Since the merging road was there, a right turn was allowed.
On busy traffic days, you could take the u-turn if the light was turning red and just go and skip it with a right turn. Pretty sure it pissed people off, but it was legal as far as I could tell.
I'm not sure if I'm picturing it correctly, but this just sounds like a Michigan left, which is how a lot of intersections here are designed (left turn is forbidden, you have to go past, u-turn, and turn right).
I’m not sure if that’s what they’re talking about or not. The use of u-turn here is weird. The ‘pissing people off part’ makes me think it’s what I usually see people do.
They come up to a red light, they turn right, make a u-turn, and turn right again. Which is basically the same as having driven straight through the original red light to begin with.
Ah that's different. Can't say I've ever seen anyone do that, but certainly more than a few cutting through parking lots in a similar way and pissing people off.