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Yes, that's what the expression originally came from, and of course we have 'jug handles' of this type in London, too, e.g. the 'right' turn from Denmark Hill to Coldharbour Lane. For the cycle-specific version that involves the footway, the expression became one for the actual shape of the marking, though (partly, I think, also because once the marking has been used by a cyclist, multiple paths become possible, many of which don't look like a jug handle (e.g., a right turn by means of jug handle onto footway--Toucan crossing--footway--Toucan crossing, footway, possibly back into the carriageway) whereas the path in the automobile version usually does).
Oliver Schick
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I'd have though the arrangement was called a jug handle not because of the shape of the marking but because of the shape of the path taken by a vehicle using the left slip to turn right, or more commonly as it's a feature of many junctions in the US, taking the right slip to turn left in right-lane driving territories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle