The word ONLY is painted in white in your travel lane next to a lane-use arrow. What does this require of you?
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A.
Make the movement the arrow indicates. Correct
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B.
Yield to any driver in the adjacent lane before proceeding.
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C.
Stop at the intersection before making the indicated movement.
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D.
Choose either the arrow's movement or continuing straight ahead.
The answer is "Make the movement the arrow indicates."
The ONLY legend, paired with a lane-use arrow, reserves the lane for a single movement, so a driver in that lane must turn or continue as the arrow directs. Drivers who read the arrow as one allowed movement alongside a straight-through default are the ones who miss it, because a lane marked ONLY is never applied to a lane that serves more than one movement.
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B. Yield to any driver in the adjacent lane before proceeding.
ONLY restricts what movement the lane allows; it does not assign priority between lanes. This answer reads ONLY as a yield instruction rather than a lane-use restriction.
C. Stop at the intersection before making the indicated movement.
The ONLY legend controls lane use, not stopping; stopping is required only when a stop sign, red signal, or other traffic control requires it, and a stop line simply shows where to stop. This answer borrows the stopping requirement of a STOP legend or intersection signal and pins it onto the ONLY legend.
D. Choose either the arrow's movement or continuing straight ahead.
The ONLY legend rules out any second choice; the lane serves the arrow's movement and nothing else. This answer carries the straight-through default from unmarked lanes into a lane where the legend has already excluded it.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Markings on the roads of every US state . Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, marking 3B.21 (ONLY Pavement Legend)..
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