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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Short merges, someone can't get in because volume is too high, has to slow down, causing people behind them to slow down. Traffic in next lane slows down in case someone darts out because the other lane is slow.
Most days it probably isn't anything specific. It's just a matter of too many cars trying to use the road at once.
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I've always wondered how much closer we can get to the theoretical capacity of the road if every single person could merge properly (and how much money would have to be invested into training/awareness in order to achieve this).
I see it every day. Someone tries to merge into a lane that's going 80km/h at 40 km/h. The 80 km/h people are like WTF, slow down to 40. The guy going 40 freaks out, goes 20. Suddenly the whole lane has come to a complete stop, which will take hours to sort itself out as the increasing traffic from rush hour means that there really isn't much of a reprieve from the shock.