I know it was several pages ago but I just can't understand those who use all of the lane that is ending to merge in. Do you not understand that it is you who is causing the traffic jam in the first place?
Not you personally at that moment, but at some point somebody decided he could get ahead of somebody else; causing somebody to brake. That causes the entire lane to slow down a bit, so now another guy comes up that lane that's ending, causing the other lane to slow down a bit more.
A rule I learned in a defensive driving course; if your lane change causes somebody to have to touch the brake pedal; then you did it wrong. (The exact words given to me was you are a jerk because you cut somebody off.) The reason the storage lane is so long was not to allow people to cut others off, but to give both lanes enough time to adjust their speeds in a manor that allows free flowing merging.
However most people merge in one of two places; the first possible chance to merge or the last possible chance to merge. Very few use those couple of hundred metres as they were intended.
Which is why I also agree with what was said earlier; people should have to be re-tested every so often. It would take care of the previously mentioned city folk who don't know how a 4 way stop works, the country person who has never driven on a multi lane road, as well as those who got their license on their 4th try, and can spend the rest of their lives driving because they happened to just barely pass a test.
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