Driving----Lights, Lanes and Arrows

   No I have not had any issues with these topics, not yet anyway, but I wonder:

    (1) If the traffic signal displays  a yellow arrow, a driver making a left turn is cautioned that the light is about to turn red but you may complete your left turn, assuming it's safe to do so. Only in the last few years, since 2010 but later in these parts, has the FLASHING yellow arrow appeared. That means you can proceed with caution when making a left turn. The distinction is clear. Just ask anybody.

  (2) When driving from Mechanicville to the Clifton Park area, you exit the town on a 2-lane highway. Those lanes narrow to one. If you are in the righthand  lane, do you yield to the outer lane; if you are in the outer lane, which seems to just disappear, does the inner lane have priority. I can't recall seeing any signs or road markings alerting drivers, but I could have missed them. I'm concentrating on which lane is which..

   (3) If you're entering the city of Troy, and are at the Frear Park approach, and want to turn left there, there are arrows on the road surface marking a left turn. But the arrows clearly point directly to the exit, not the entrance. Why, one might ask. The markings have been freshly painted too.

(4)  This may be the most serious. I would like to post a picture, but since I'm a lone driver, can't do so. If you enter the Northway in the Clifton Park area, the sign is posted, "Do Not Enter."  The sign appears at each end of the Exit ramp, but that puts the sign directly on the left of the Entry ramp.  So it may well look as if it means don't enter that ramp.  It looks as if it means that entry ramp, but we know it doesn't. So we ignore it. That sets a pattern for our feeble attempts to interpret what is meant, and to obey or ignore depending on that interpretation. Could that type of ambiguity be responsible for so many of those accidents caused by drivers who cause the wrong-way accidents. Contributing factors may be  driver impairment, or obscured vision due to nightfall, precipitation and snowbanks. Next time you take the Northway to Albany, take notice of that sign to your left. It says Do Not Enter.