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Originally Posted by fredr123
This kind of thing angers me to no end. I've found myself retaliating by almost initiating an accident rather than let that ******* into my lane. It worked a lot better when I drove a crappy car.
It happens a lot when one lane on the road is shut down for construction or something. The City gives plenty of warning with signs for a few km before the lane ends. People move over into one of the other lanes that remain open and they, naturally, get a bit backed up. It never fails but some idot or idots will always race down the soon-to-be closed lane past this giant lineup of cars and then do their best to butt in at the front of the line. ****es. Me. Off.
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On one level, this complaint has merit. If someone changes *into* a lane that they know is going to be closed, just to get ahead by a few car lengths, that's ridiculous. I see that happen frequently.
On the other hand, I don't see anything wrong with using the entire lane that's available to you before it closes. If everyone did this, and people simply alternated right-of-way when the lane disappeared, you'd have all of the lanes functioning about the same.
The simple fact is that some people like the comfort of being in the "correct" lane, and move more slowly for it. Others are willing to suffer the butt-in-at-the-end-of-the-lane stress, and move a little more quickly. On average, though, the same number of vehicles get through. If a road is running at or above capacity, there's NO WAY that you can fit 3 lanes of traffic into 2 lanes without a large bottleneck. No amount of courtesy and patience will allow the whole system to move any faster than it does, on average.