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Originally Posted by Lego Man
This ESPECIALLY happens in winter time.
I'm driving down a main road in the right hand lane and someone is waiting on the right of me at an intersection to get on the main road.
Instead of waiting until I pass - so they can calmly turn into the lane I'm on, they instead inexplicably choose to gun it and try to get in in front of me... but they seem to forget EVERY time that it's icy out and now their tires are spinning like mad. So now they are on the verge of completely cutting me off after slowly creeping into my lane, and I now have push the brakes so I don't rear end them.
BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!
Instead of staying in the lane they cut me off in... all of them must be thinking: "Oh Sh*t, I just cut someone off - I better turn really quickly into the lane to my left so they don't get mad at me"
Half the time, they end up cutting of someone in the left hand lane and going 30 over to make up for it. The other half have no idea there were two lanes to begin with.
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Umm... Just a gentle suggestion?
If you have
no real reason to NEED the right lane for the next how ever many blocks, would it REALLY BE THAT DIFFICULT for you to move over into the left lane, so that the person that wants to enter the throughfare can do so? I do this all of the time-in town, but
Particularly on the highway. I also watch my rear-view and pull up/left to clear free-flow right turn bays if I'm in the right lane, traveling thru, and forced to stop for a red.
These are common courtesies...but it seems that courtesy just ain't that common any more.
Right lane self entitled idiots are the worst form of pond scum. Especially in the case where
everyone knows that the right lane ends, yet still you have the constant parade of "I'm too importants" flying by the left lane full of "I'm not going to be one of
those", who are stacked up waiting their turn.
Ray Gibbon Drive north of the Henday (the "back way" into St. Albert) is really bad for this. I see "road rage" incidents weekly and accidents are common when the patient people block the right lane idiots into the curb at the end of the merge lane.
Twinning northbound Ray Gibbon up to LeClerc Way (5-600 metres) would go a long way towards providing a
band-aid fix to this. The current situation is a gong-show...and I drive it almost daily.
There, I feel better now.
