Drivers!! What does this road sign mean?

[Bertuzzied]

If you don't know you fail and your license will be automatically revoked. I've gotten into so many near accidents with people screeching to a full stop when they enter an intersection it's unbelievable.

If you do not believe the sign, do not drive! I've noticed a lot seniors come to a full stop. Is this a new sign Alberta implemented within the past 40 years? We need cops to start handing out tickets for this.

[habernac]

anyone in front of me who stops in the merge lane gets the horn.

[mykalberta]

heheh, yup, along with the people that consider that sign to mean you must merge.

[Superflyer]

Yea I get so ticked when people treat it like a stop sign. Even in a merge lane the people that stop really get me, cause now to merge you have to get back up to speed.

[Madman]

Its the idiots who feel the need to cross all lanes of traffic instantaneously and can only drive in the "fast" lane and no other - I think they lack the lane changing gene.

Prime example is Bonaventure Dr onto westbound Canyon Meadows Dr.

[Pagal4321]

I get frustrated with people who think this sign is a yield....but there are idiots everywhere you look. Nothing you can do about it really....

My key example of this is the exit off Crowchild to get onto 53rd Ave.

[PowerPlayoffs06]

For every idiot who treats a merge as a yield, there's another idiot who treats a yield as a merge.

Both need to be driven off the road.

[J pold]

That’s not a Merge sign

This is a merge sign



That according too the basic drivers handbook issued by the government of Alberta is the sign for

Added Lane (Free Flow) which means that there isn’t a need a merge you can just go because the lane won’t end

http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFT...handbook08.pdf

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by J pold

That’s not a Merge sign

This is a merge sign



That according too the basic drivers handbook issued by the government of Alberta is the sign for

Added Lane (Free Flow) which means that there isn’t a need a merge you can just go because the lane won’t end

http://www.infratrans.gov.ab.ca/INFT...handbook08.pdf

haha. I wanted to rant about this so long ago but i could never find a picture of the sign online. I finally found the added lane/free flow sign name today.

It is NOT a merge!!

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by PowerPlayoffs06

For every idiot who treats a merge as a yield, there's another idiot who treats a yield as a merge.

The worst for that is when you are heading southbound on Blackfoot and you come to 58th ave. It's a long storage lane, but its still a yield. The issue is there is always a backlog of traffic on Blackfoot because of people jamming on their brakes because they were cut off. And of course the yield people do have a traffic light working to their advantage.

Then once you get past that one, SB Blackfoot @ Glenmore there's another yield that people treat as a free flow lane.

That's why I like what the people coming from 114th ave onto Barlow get- a stop sign. No arguing what that means.

[Metro Gnome]

Originally Posted by PowerPlayoffs06

For every idiot who treats a merge as a yield, there's another idiot who treats a yield as a merge.

Both need to be driven off the road.

You beat me to it. I've been noticing this more and more in Calgary the last few years. People, with yield signs, forcing themselves into already crowded traffic flow. It drives me crazy.

[JohnnyO]

Exiting Crowfoot Way (Next to the Co-op gas station) onto Nosehill Dr Southbound toward Crowchild.

Everyone Stops/Yields at that free flow sign, I almost rear ended a car everytime.

[CaptainCrunch]

I thought that sign ment, possible cockblock ahead, beware of your friends at the bar.

[edn88]

My pet peeve is when two lanes go down to one, people merge early, then get mad at people who stay in the lane that is about to end until the actual merge.

If everyone stays in their right lane and merges at the right time, it works people.

[kermitology]

There are some poor drivers in all situations. Like the ones who think that the playground zone is in effect before 8:30, and those who completely ignore it.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by edn88

My pet peeve is when two lanes go down to one, people merge early, then get mad at people who stay in the lane that is about to end until the actual merge.

If everyone stays in their right lane and merges at the right time, it works people.

Actually you have it backwards. If I wait until it ends, somebody has to hit their brakes to make a gap instead of easing off the gas. That causes a chain reaction back.

The highway people don't put signs 100's of metres before the lane ends because they have shares in sign companies. They put them there to tell you to start moving over.

[jammies]

I refer to those as "stop signs for the clueless", because they apparently mean something different to people with limited intelligence than what would seem to be obvious from the picture.

[TurnedTheCorner]

I hate it when other people are on the road and in my way. Why can't they all drive good, like I do? Plus, I'm trying to get somewhere. Don't they all know that? Why do they all insist on getting in my way when I have to be somewhere?

[Engine09]

anyone in front of me who stops in the merge lane gets the horn.

Absolutely, I just wish I had a louder horn on the motorbike.

*beeeeep* *beeeeeeeeeeeep*

They still hear me and start moving though. Dummies.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by ken0042

Actually you have it backwards. If I wait until it ends, somebody has to hit their brakes to make a gap instead of easing off the gas. That causes a chain reaction back.

The highway people don't put signs 100's of metres before the lane ends because they have shares in sign companies. They put them there to tell you to start moving over.

Exactly! Begin planning to move over the second you see the sign. I HATE it when people try to move up maybe 3 car lengths by blasting past all the people trying to move over early and head to the end of the line and pretty much force themselves into the lane. I don't have many driving pet peaves but that is certainly one of them. Oh, and the actual thread topic as well.