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Originally Posted by FanIn80
This is NOT A MERGE LANE. The people traveling eastbound on Glenmore to get onto northbound Deerfoot have the right of way. The other guys traveling from southbound Deerfoot onto eastbound Glenmore have a yield sign!
I go this route every day on the way home from the office. At least three times a week, I have to slam my brakes on because some nimrod in front of me has slowed down (and sometimes even stopped!) to let someone coming off Deerfoot go in front of them.
Yes, it's the nice thing to do. It's polite, it's friendly... you're a nice guy, I get it.
But you're going to KILL somebody!
Right of way is meant to induce traffic flow. This means that the twenty cars driving behind you on eastbound Glenmore are not expecting you to stop. They are expecting you to forsake your niceness in the name of respecting the rules of the road and continuing the flow of traffic. They are not expecting to have to slam on their brakes because you've decided to let somebody with a YIELD sign go in front of you.
This also goes for the jerks that ignore the yield sign and decide to force-merge with everyone else.
Merge lanes only work when it's an actual merge lane and everyone is expecting a merge to take place... they do not work when you're merging from a red light, a stop sign or a yield sign.
That isn't called merging, it's called breaking the law and endangering everyone around you!
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Man oh man... These people kill me. But I don't think they're being nice. They're intimidated and they don't know the rules of the road. These are the people that see another vehicle heading in their direction and they freak out and slow down thinking that the other guy MAY not stop.
Some people call this defensive driving. I call it uneducated stupidity. Defensive driving is looking ahead of the car you're following to have a firm grasp on what is going on on the road. Defensive driving is making eye contact with the driver at the perpendicular street to make sure they're stopping. Stopping when you have the right of way is dangerous. It causes confusion.
I just observed another version of this type of thing. Heading around a nice, round right turn lane with a merge at the end, the person in front of me did not bother looking to see if it was clear until she was around the corner. Of course, she had to hit the brakes and shoulder check to see if it was clear. It was totally clear. The light was red. You could see it was clear allll the way around the corner. How can someone not see this? Who are these idiots that focus on the asphalt right in front of them at all times? Can you not look around and still steer your car in the direction you want to go?