pork-chop island

plural pork-chop islands

1. alternativeAlternative form of pork chop island.

   The pork-chop island causes the right-turning vehicles to be in their own roadway, and so are not governed by the traffic signal.

   2013 July 8, Michael Graham, quotee, “Road Q”, in Arizona Daily Star, volume 172, number 189, page A2

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   A small “pork-chop” island separates a lane of traffic turning right from Kelly to Sedgley, and that island should grow in the new intersection.

   1998 May 7, Larry Fish, “Lincoln will be moved out of traffic’s way”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 169th year, number 341, page B5

   I just don’t see many people migrating north to Fond du Lac if it becomes a maze of frontage roads (the walking trail could soon become one), pork-chop islands and back roads.

   2007 May 21, Matt Henning, “Will FdL be maze of frontage roads?”, in The Reporter, page A5

   Caribou Coffee resisted a similar median on South Estes Drive, and the town instead chose to require a “pork-chop” island in the driveway of Walgreens, making lefthand turns extremely difficult.

   2010 March 14, Jesse James DeConto, “Council approves new Walgreens”, in The Chapel Hill News, page 3A

   City Manager Randy Knight said Winter Park was debating whether signs restricting left turns between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. would be enough or if a so-called “pork-chop” island — a triangular traffic device that helps drivers make right turns — would be enough.

   2018 May 21, Ryan Gillespie, “Changes sought for Winter Park intersection”, in Orlando Sentinel, page A2

   They [election signs] must be three metres from curbs, can’t be placed on centre medians, and can’t be placed on pork-chop islands.

   2019 April 2, Bryan Anderson, “Enforce bylaws on election signs”, in Edmonton Journal, page A7