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The drivers are not clueless - there is no dedicated right lane and they must yield to pedestrians when making a right turn. You can't share lanes with another vehicle yielding to make a right as you're trying to get through the intersection. There is only so much room for them to move over to the right. But if there is not enough room, it's not their fault that the douche truck and other vehicles behind them can't get through the intersection on green while they are yielding to pedestrians.
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I think aberdeen5698 is referring in particular to roads in Vancouver, which have the outer lane often reserved for parking. Where the outer lane is reserved for parking, it can double as a right turn lane at intersections. At these intersections, though, sometimes cars do not completely pull into the outer lane and just sit there diagonally, taking up part of the outer lane and the through lane, while waiting to turn right - even though the vehicle could have pulled completely into the right lane. So, that lane goes out of service.
It could get worse, there could be a left turn at the same time on the leftmost and then no traffic would get through. I've seen this happening on Commercial at Commercial and Broadway some times.
In the most heinous situations, it's where the road is 4 lanes (outer lanes serving parking) rather than 6 - particularly in the West End - and a stubborn right turning driver might be completely blocking all traffic by him/herself.
I guess that the solution to this, if not educating drivers to not be so stubborn, is a slightly longer distance between the intersection and the last parking spot.