I haven’t seen many, but I can recall a few jug handle left turns in Maryland.
we have a few on Long Island. never knew it was called that. I just called it an exit ramp.
What the heck is a jughandle left turn?
We have on ramps and off ramps
They called this a jughandle where if you want to turn left, you turn right, then do a u turn, no lights
If the median is “solid”, how is it possible to make a left turn there?
You have to turn right, then go make a U Turn, it is shown on the bottom of the picture.
It seems like a convenient way to also make a right turn. Can people do this?
In that picture that you shared it seems that there is sufficient room to widen the road to make a left turn lane. Why would they not do this instead?
Right turn only if I understand your question.
That would be a question for the traffic engineers.
These replace left turn lanes. They won’t widen the road to add left turn lanes.
Left turns have a high accident rate, so the point is to avoid them.
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Isn’t the jug handle supposed to take the place of left turns at what would have been a normal intersection?
That is exactly what is happening for the side road. Main Highway left turn is good.