You can’t change lanes from a straight lane to a turning lane in the middle of an intersection during the turn. You need to already be in the turning lane before entering the intersection.
None of that Chinese says anything related to the intersection, or turning.
What does Taiwan law say? For example right turn on red is not allowed at all.
If you want to appeal it you need better excuses than not understanding Chinese. Those white dashed lines are universal so not understanding Chinese is just an excuse.
Like say you did it to let an ambulance pass or there’s dangerous conditions forcing you to cross it and not turn. Neither looks to be the case.
Especially since there isn’t even any Chinese painted on the road related to that intersection.
Agreed, in an ideal world the driver should have been in the appropriate lane before coming to the junction. But it is what it is, and now he’s asking for help to appeal it.
What does it say?
If one isn’t familiar with the road, can you at least accept that perhaps a reasonable driver might have thought the right turn lane was for the alley and not the main road (which might have been obscured by traffic in front)
There’s a bunch of Chinese painted at your map location pin. One says “scooter priority lane”, another says “bus stop”, and another says “scooter turning box”.
No, any driver who passed the written test would know the dashed line is not to be crossed. Chinese or what road it goes to has nothing to do with it.
It’s up to the driver to understand and follow the regulations and rules of the road or we could contest every violation as the driver could only read Welsh.
Please look again carefully. I can at least recognize the word “lu” (road) on the Chinese painted on the road.
Ok I see that in the left two lanes, there are two left turn arrows with the name of the road painted in Chinese.
In any case, the intersection shown on Google Maps looks completely different from your picture. Those left two lanes weren’t even drawn yet when the picture was taken, which presumably means the Chinese wasn’t painted there either.
It doesn’t matter, those lines and signs are designed independent of language. It’s your responsibility to know what that means.
Otherwise we’d all be breaking laws because we don’t know the language in that country.
You could appeal. The intersection is a bit of a mess and when you realized the mistake you waited until it was safe to turn. Yes, you broke the law, but perhaps they need better signage warning of this unusual intersection which has the double lines and scooter lane where you could have changed lanes before the camera but didn’t because that wouldn’t be safe.
You might get lucky.
But as another poster said, is it worth it? And they could easily say you broke the law so you pay the fine, in the future be more careful and if you can’t be careful because you can’t read the signs then maybe you shouldn’t drive.
Probably isn’t a big fine. Take it as a learning experience and move on with your life. The infrastructure here is worth laughing at, not stressing over.
I find this situation very ambiguous. I have taken written test before (not in Taiwan) and have no knowledge of special significance of these dashed lines. If I had been driving I would have guessed that it would have been legal to (carefully) turn right.
I think appealing has some merit. Of course I agree the appeal will likely be denied.
Honestly, I do not know why these types of complicated road situations are even allowed to exist. This and so many other road situations in Taiwan should be re-designed and simplified.
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These are turn guidance lines and they only started appearing around the world within the last 10-15 years (at least in the countries where I’ve driven), so you probably wouldn’t know what they were if you studied for your license prior to that.
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In any case, please update us if you find out how to appeal. I’m sure it will be useful for future reference.
Good luck.
it is likely without me knowing the location… you were photographed changing lanes in an intersection after the lanes were marked with directional arrows telling you which direction. suggest you check the google street views to see what lane markings there were.
I don’t think you can appeal or you can but I don’t think you would win.
As you turn into that section, on road there are road markings showing you the direction, there also overhead signs explaining the layout.
There are road markings giving you the number of the road to your left (its blocked by a truck on google)
Then before you get to the no changing lanes section, the overhead sign is repeated.
From personal experience, as I’ve appealed many a traffic fine, they don’t care what your reason or excuse is, they will just come back and say it’s your fault and pay up.
Taiwan isn’t like the USA or Canada where you can reason with a judge, it’s just a jobsworth that will say you are wrong, stamp the paper, and you pay up. Save your time