Merging Traffic

topper75 · 22-08-2014 05:06PM

Two lanes in a city context? Fine I'll zip - every second one. No worries.

Dual carriageway or motorway? Different scenario.
The hard-ons who are in the overtaking lane and ignoring all the "Merge Now" signs until the last second - not a chance I'm leaving them in when they try to nose across at the traffic cones blocking their way. They are only the Most Important People in the World(TM) in the own minds, not in mine. They probably had a kilometer or more to merge and refused to.

Nemeses · 22-08-2014 05:52PM

Barely There wrote: »

That's ok.
I'd just get in in front of the guy in front of you.

You better rephrase "Good" driver to Cr@p driver so.

Trebor176 · 22-08-2014 08:57PM

I do not mind merging traffic, as that is perfectly tolerable, and I will give way to one car, of course. My thread yesterday was in relation to the gob****es, who try to bully their way in at the top of a lengthy queue of traffic because they can't be arsed sitting in traffic like the rest of the not so small-minded people. Motorcyclists and cyclists are the exception, as they can zip in and out

Irish Steve · 23-08-2014 01:19AM

the mergers that grind my gears are the gobsh1tes that come down a motorway slip at 60Kph and move across into the second or third lane without any awareness or respect of what's already happening on the motorway, See it all the time on the m50, no signal, no awareness of the relative speeds, and no urgency about getting moving after they've got well and truly in the way of the people that were already on the motorway and moving at considerably higher speeds.

The American system would sort them out, for about half a mile before and after some junctions, there's a barrier between Lane 1 and 2 (on a 3 lane motorway) so there's no way from the slip into the overtaking lanes for some distance, and it has solved the near miss issues that used to be so much of a problem on the busier junctions.

Merging Traffic

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