True, but traffic slows after the light instead of before the light and reduces blocking the intersection. Zipper merge is safer for all, including those who line up before the intersection then run the yellow/red when the light changes
But that's the point that person you're calling an ass is doing it properly. And if the people in the ongoing lane as they approach the end, open up a gap between them. That person can view between them with no heartache or trauma and everybody gets to keep moving faster.
While I can agree with most of your posts, you are an idiot about the above. It's bumper to bumper traffic and he/she is saying eff you, I'm going to the front rather than blend in. When you know the lane is ending, blend in prior to the end rather than pushing your way in at the end of the lane. Nothing you can say changes my mind.
You can have that opinion and I don't expect this to change your mind. But my point is that that adversarial point of view is what stops it from working. What's in their head doesn't matter. Using all of that lane space until the moment of merge is what matters. Getting cars per hour throughput is what matters. Hell, I'm from Mass, the home of the azzhole driver where using a turn signal is considered giving information to the enemy, and giving up lane space is considered as a cowardly act, and I get it.
I'm 100% sure that is why people consciously get into the lane that ends in 500FT and then stomp on the gas as soon as the light turns green like its MIR. It's not to try to get ahead of everyone... its because it's the right thing to do and they want to properly zipper merge.
Congrats! you're the typical Maryland driver that thinks they own the road and takes it personally when someone gets in front of them...You're what's wrong with the Southern Maryland Roads.....get over yourself.
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they are EVERYWHERE around here.....and based on Grumpy's reaction, he thinks it's hilarious. You fight idiots on 235, then you fight more idiots on 4 to the bridge, and after you're through that nightmare of a gauntlet, you have the "junior deputies" who think it's their jobs to regulate traffic who will sit in the left lane next to a vehicle and block up the traffic. Self important ass clowns that obviously have nothing better to do with their time.I used to be married to "that guy". We'd argue all the time about letting someone in - he'd fume and jockey specifically to prevent them from getting over. It's like, why? When I'd drive I'd slow and wave to let someone on a side street make their turn and he'd lose his mind. "No! NO!! They can wait like everyone else!!!" It's like, why do you care, there's a whole line of cars that aren't going anywhere, what's the big deal about letting this guy in? "No! NO!!!
am i aruging correctly?
My one nit is that I didn't have a problem driving in Boston, it was Salt Lake City that made me want to choke a bitch. "Motherfather MAKE UP YOUR MIND!!! "
In Arizona it's ALWAYS the snowbirds!
In AZ Monello and I made a game - "where they from?" See someone driving like an idiot, where they from? Invariably it was California.
Except when the right lane closed ahead sign is a mile away from the lane closure. A mile of road can hold a lot of cars. Seems a lot smarter and efficient to zipper move instead of everyone moving over and leaving that mile of road open. I dont need instructions posted on how to drive. Its pretty damn simple to think it out on my own.
