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Merging lanes: Who has right of way

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  • #32
    corktina
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    how can you cut in front of a stationery vehicle?


  • #33
    Victor
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    dragon_lordMTB wrote: »
    Question:

    If I'm in the left hand lane and right hand lane has road marking indicating to merge to the left, who has the right of way?

    Should the car on the right stop and merge when it is safe to do so or do I give way and let right hand lane merge?

    Thanks.
    Its down to the road markings. Invariably the right hand lane has arrows indicating one should join the left hand lane. changing lanes means you are mean to yield.

    With some lanes, in particular bus lanes, there may be a yield marking a the end of hte bus lane, indicating that traffic in the traffic lane has right of way.
    12 element wrote: »
    What about when there are no markings and two lanes just become one?
    If there are no markings, there is only one lane! :pac: If you mean no instructions / arrows / yield sign, then the left lane would normally retain right of way - the over-taking lane is just an over-taking lane.


  • #34
    cyclopath2001
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    corktina wrote: »
    how can you cut in front of a stationery vehicle?
    Usually, there is a gap of about 1.5 metres between stopped vehicles. A driver in the outside lane comes up alongside and then juts in part of his vehicle into that gap, preventing the vehicle on the inside from moving. He then forces his way fully into the inside lane as soon as the cars in front start to move.


  • #35
    Popoutman
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    In some locations (and in a lot of French autoroutes), the climbing lane on a hill has to merge in with the lane to its outside, in a way similar to an onramp on a motorway, but there are not that many places in Ireland the I remember where this is the case.

    The road marking must be obeyed, and as was said earlier, the continuing lane has the right of way and the onus is on the ending lane to merge correctly.


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