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Originally Posted by DuffMan
I'm all for the zipper merge and like I said in the gg thread, I'll do it every time and if my wife is with me, she'll tell me to quit being a dick.
But, here's something I've seen a couple of times, not sure anyone else has, but a person in the congested lane, will basically drive in the middle of both lanes preventing any of us dicks getting up to the front to zipper merge properly.
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I haven't seen that, but not shocking, especially in rush hour, people get so butt hurt about their "spot in line" to the point that regardless of zipper merge or not, it seems as though everyone is actually mad at any merging traffic, like as though the people in the merge lane were behind them in the same traffic line before and simply sped into the merge lane to jump a head of them.
What I have seen a lot of, and I commute in the inner city on a lot less of the major roads (so not much Deerfoot or Crowchild for example) is cars doing what you said "blocking" the right hand lane as you approach traffic lights. For example, there will be a big traffic line on what is essentially a single lane road (but it's actually a 2 lane road, only most of the right hand lane is usually taken up by parked cars, so one lane). That last block before the traffic lights, usually cars can't park on it, and the right hand lane opens up so cars turning right at the lights can turn right. What also happens, is if a car wants to turn left at the lights, it causes traffic to stop and wait until there is a break in on coming traffic so the person can turn (usually there is no advance turn arrow at these intersections).
Anyway, almost exclusively when traffic is backed up, there is always one idiot that pulls his car from the left lane halfway into the right, blocking any cars from coming up right hand side. What I'm sure these drivers are doing is they are getting butt hurt because they think cars are going to come up the right hand lane to get to the front of the queue in hopes that someone in front is turning left and they will go around faster, or they will simply peel out at the start of the light and get ahead (which absolutely does happen), but what they end up doing is blocking all the legitimate traffic that wants to turn right, and can legally turn right on a RED from getting to the lights and just makes the traffic worse.
Peoples ego's in traffic are hysterical.