You can literally see the turn arrow on the traffic light and the guide lines in the intersection. Those cars are stacked up in the leftmost turn lane.
Here’s a slightly less cooked rendition obtained by a simple reverse image search:
The leftmost lane is clearly a left turn only lane. The lane the log truck is in most likely is a left/straight lane, or it’s double left turn lanes. Nobody in that leftmost lane is going straight around that log truck unless they want to get turned into a pancake.
You can literally see the turn arrow on the traffic light and the guide lines in the intersection. Those cars are stacked up in the leftmost turn lane.
Here’s a slightly less cooked rendition obtained by a simple reverse image search:
The leftmost lane is clearly a left turn only lane. The lane the log truck is in most likely is a left/straight lane, or it’s double left turn lanes. Nobody in that leftmost lane is going straight around that log truck unless they want to get turned into a pancake.
Sure but none of that explains why cars are in the left most lane, because both lanes can turn left.
The obvious explanation remains - no one wants to be stuck behind a fully laden truck at traffic lights.
After the turn, cars in the left lane will be able to move in to the right lane.
This seems really obvious to me. Does no one else drive?