Driving in Greater New Haven: Addendum

There are two "rules" which I forgot to list in my recent post, but of which I was definitely reminded in the last couple of days:

1. When the light turns green, the first left turner has the right of way over the oncoming traffic. This doesn't happen all the time, but pretty frequently you'll be sitting at a traffic light trying to ignore all the other drivers inching up every few seconds, probably hanging over into your lane and all (a police car did that to me this weekend). When the light changes, you begin to go straight through the intersection only to find that the first left turner going the other way is going first. These people often do not even make an attempt to get through quickly, but instead trust to the fact that they will be in your way, so you will let them go.
2. "No Standing Any Time" means "Free Parking!" This is especially bad at the "T" intersection between Crown St and Howe St, just one block up from our apartment. In the intersection (across from where Crown St ends), there are some of these signs. It is VERY rare not to find someone parked there. (To be fair, this is just outside the entrance to the YMCA day care and some of these people might be picking up or dropping off kids, so are really being nice since they didn't just stop in the driving lane to run inside.)

That's all for now. I just wanted to make sure that my list of "rules" was more-or-less complete.