Lane use and transit signs — Oregon Permit Test

A right turn permitted without stopping sign may appear below a stop sign, allowing traffic turning right to turn without stopping while all other traffic must stop and yield right of way.

It is the one sign that takes a stop away, and only for the one movement named. Everyone else at that sign still stops.

Right Turn Permitted Without Stopping: This sign may appear below a stop sign. Traffic turning right may turn without stopping. Other traffic must stop and yield right of way.

Lane-use control signs are used where turns are required or permitted from lanes as shown.

They decide your route before the intersection does. Being in the wrong lane at the line leaves you turning where you did not mean to.

Lane-Use Control: These signs are used where turns are required or permitted from lanes as shown.

In a transit only lane, only transit vehicles — or people biking, where the sign says so — may continue straight through an intersection.

The lane looks like an ordinary one and is not. Driving through it is a violation even where entering it briefly to turn is allowed.

Only transit vehicles (or people biking, if indicated on the sign) may continue straight through an intersection.

Where right turns are permitted from a transit lane, you may use it briefly to turn into a driveway, turn at the next intersection, or pull over to park where allowed, always yielding to transit vehicles and people riding bicycles and merging in behind them.

Brief is the whole permission. The lane is borrowed for the turn, not joined for the journey.

Right Turns Permitted: This sign indicates you can briefly use the transit lane to turn into a driveway, turn at the next intersection, or pull over to park along the curb where allowed.

A center lane turn only sign means the center lane is shared for left turns from both directions.

Shared is the word that catches drivers out: someone coming the other way may be sitting in the same lane, waiting to turn across you.

Center Lane Turn Only: Share the center lane for left turns from both directions.

A left turn yield on green sign means that on a green circular signal you yield the right-of-way to oncoming traffic and pedestrians until it is safe to turn.

The green is permission to enter the intersection, not permission to turn across it. The gap is still yours to find.

Left Turn Yield on Green: On a green circular signal, yield the right-of-way to oncoming traffic and pedestrians until it is safe to turn.

A stop here for pedestrians sign may appear near a crosswalk, and requires you to stop at the stop line when a pedestrian is in the crosswalk.

Stopping at the line rather than at the crossing leaves the person room, and leaves the driver behind you able to see why you stopped.

Stop Here for Pedestrians: This sign may appear near a crosswalk. Stop at the stop line when a pedestrian is in the crosswalk.

A high occupancy vehicle lane is reserved for vehicles carrying at least two or more persons, as noted on the sign, and a white diamond may be painted on the lane.

The minimum is on the sign rather than in the law, so the same marking can mean two people on one road and three on another.

High Occupancy Vehicle: This lane is reserved for vehicles carrying at least two or more persons, as noted on the sign.

What does a right turn permitted without stopping sign below a stop sign allow?

Traffic turning right may turn without stopping. It is the one sign that takes a stop away, and only for the one movement named. Everyone else at that sign still stops. 2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, p.8: “Right Turn Permitted Without Stopping: This sign may appear below a stop sign. Traffic turning right may turn without stopping. Other traffic must stop and yield right of way.”