@stratos said:
I will have to agree with Random832, i drive a
certain stretch of road everyday where this happens, it's a 2 lane
merging into 1, and all the cars and trucks stick to 1 lane only.
Keeping the other lane wide open. So when i pass all the cars by
driving on the open lane until the zipper sign, and then signal that i
want to merge the assholes start to close the spaces between their
cars. In such situations you sometimes just have to cut in front of a
car to not have to wait there all day. This has nothing to do with
being rude, it's just the result of people not understanding how its
supposed to work.
We don't have 'zipper signs.' Maybe this makes this whole argument moot, since we are arguing about completely different traffic control. We have one sign that says your lane is ending. Then the same sign again about 60 ft from where the lane ends. Then its just you and a dotted line trying to change lanes at the last possible minute. Since you have to cross a dotted line, doesn't that mean you definitely don't have the right of way?
If you were merging onto a freeway, would you wait until your lane was about to exit back out to another road to actually change lanes onto the freeway? Or, as you are driving would you look for a space, get up to speed and get into that space. Its the same situation, the lane you are in is not going where you have to be, so you find the easiest and safest way to get into the lane you need.
@The Barefoot Bum said:
A special circle of hell should be reserved for drivers who employ *exit* lanes to advance past substantially slowed traffic in the continuing lanes. (There are *three* such lanes on the San Francisco approach to the Bay Bridge, one monument among many to the WTF stupidity of California's civil engineers). There is no justification whatsoever for remaining in these lanes beyond the first indication that the lane will become an exit lane, unless you actually exit.
How about driving on the shoulder of the road to get around traffic congestion? They just drive up the line of cars waiting for the light, and then someone must let them in again. Since when is the shoulder an extra lane for asshats?