"Use Both Lanes Until Merge Point"
You've seen it. Road construction with a lane closed and traffic needs to merge from two lanes into one. Construction companies are now posting signs for traffic to "Use Both Lanes" up to the merg...
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toedtoes wrote:Are you being held up by people cutting in front of you on a hiking trail or sidewalk? Not a very good comparison. Do you also let people get by you at the grocery store checkout? Or the movie theater queue? How about if you have three things, and they guy wanting around you has a whole basket full? I'm sure you'll let them through, that would be the courteous thing to do.
A roadway is not a queue. There is no "cutting in line".
Do you all get mad because someone passes you on a hiking trail or sidewalk? The road is no different.
Again there is no donut for the first 50 people to pass the merge point.
Except for the possibility of blocking streets behind the merge point, why does it matter where the "zipper" point it? Seems to me it could be at the merge sign and then everyone will be traveling at the same speed when arriving at the single lane. The issue is that the passing people have ignored the "Merge Here" thinking they will be in line further along, and bypass a lot of waiting in line. They get to the end of their lane, and try to merge then, but people have to slow down or stop because these people have bypassed the merge point and have to create their own merge point, thus slowing everything down.
