Why are there so many traffic lights which Doesn't works?

[bagusbagus]

example:
Like 70% of the time the green arrows doesn't even works.. if the green arrow isn't illuminated you aren't supposed to turn right= same as crossing under the red light... However I get damn pissed When I have to stop at the red light, and have to turn right - I obviously have to wait for the green arrow to come up as well IF there is One, NOT only the main green light before I can do so, but It just doesn't comes up most of the time, so I end up staying at the crossing and thinking wtf just happened, why it never came up and I get angry Drivers beeping at me for getting stuck at junctions because of those damn non-working lights.

So nowadays I just don't look at the arrow in places where I know they don't even work, if there are no cars and the main light is green I turn where I need... But what the hell? Am I a retard and not doing something correctly or those things simply doesn't work and are misleading drivers?

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lucido grigio said:

You do not have to wait for the green filter light to turn right ,if the road is clear ,turn.

Highway code RTFM.

how long have you been driving ?

8years , I got my driving license in another country originally before I swapped it to UK one.
It's treated as you are crossing a Red light in rest of the Europe and of course you get the same fine as when crossing at red..
Wtf? I know few junctions local to me where I know the filter light works for sure everytime and everyone actually waits for it to turn green before entering the junction even if there isn't traffic so that just doesn't makes sense.

Edited by bagusbagus on Friday 31st March 00:22

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RacingPete said:

If the light is green you can turn right regardless, if there is a green arrow then that means traffic coming the other way is stopped so you can go.

Where you would not be allowed to turn right on a main green you would see this.

Yup, if there are no Extra sections present and its green you can turn right regardless, and IF there is a green arrow and it is illuminated the traffic is stopped and you can go. Based on those 2 things I have been driving all the time...

- but what If there physically is a green arrow section/filter light but It isn't illuminated? Based on my understanding that means I shouldn't be making the turn and wait for it to actually turn on & be illuminated -however in a lot of places it never happens. What purpose that green arrow section would even serve if it doesn't even works?

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OldGermanHeaps said:

Maybe try learning the laws of the land you are residing in?

It's Universal ,except few special signs in each country..
Do I have to ask you to study a massive law book of each country if you were to do an eurotrip and would cross 10countries?
That would make no sense.. hence the traffic laws are the same and universal and your drivers license is valid in all of them.

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No1 really answered a question I asked, why do the Filter lights ( which are secluded in additional cluster) often does not works?
I'm not asking about the main green light.
I'm talking about this section



Stop beating around the bush and telling me to learn rules, when no1 answered why at a lot of places those sections simply doesn't ever illuminate even they are physically there? If they don't ever get illuminated why did the traffic workers even put them there, or if they are broken why no1 doesn't fixes them or just simply remove them if they hold no purpose anymore?

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Munter said:

But the thicko OP doesn't understand that the arrow is just an indication that the opposing traffic has a red, and is in addition to the green. So doesn't understand it's purpose for existence. So the answers don't answer the question.

The simplest answer to the picture is: If there are no red lights. You can go. In the OP's pic there are no red lights.

However the OP is clearly a troll so...

Damn.. I'm far from a troll.. If you were to go to mainland europe and the green arrow weren't illuminated -You can NOT go, You would need to wait for the green extra filter light to come on and be illuminated as well if there physically is one there!
So this is really confusing when here it means you can go without it even being illuminated and in rest of the Europe you would get points on your license for that...