There are three through lanes there. The intersection was designed to use those three lanes. The merge isn't until well after the light. What they are doing is legal and appropriate.
Tell me, if that lane is not meant to be used why is it there? Why this thought that everyone should merge well before the merge point? There is no sign requiring it. There is no law requiring it. There is no suggestion in the MD drivers manual.
With all the blatant and dangerous illegal driving I see every day, this is an example of WGAF?
Legal doesn't mean considerate. Legal doesn't mean respectful. Legal DEFINITELY doesn't even mean SAFE.
"Appropriate" doesn't mean racing ahead through the right lane at 2x the speed of the other drivers, until the last possible minute, and since your car is 15 feet long, you can go ahead and FORCE yourself over (because you have to, now that you're going 60mph and the lane ends in 20 more feet) into a gap that is 16 feet long.
I'm sorry.
"Appropriate" is coming in off the bridge, westbound, turning right, and using the damn lane for what it should be used for, but those people can't, because the speed racers coming northbound are using it for their cut-off game.
Again, everybody knows why they do it. Everybody knows they could alternately be good drivers and merge sooner. Everybody knows the behavior SO much, as a matter of fact, that everybody is already on the lookout beforehand, because they know the #######s will be trying to pull their #### every day.