profdant139 wrote:
Atreis, it might be a Calif thing -- I don't know. I am not sure I have ever seen them in other states. But they are very handy -- the auto traffic merges in one area, the trucks are shunted aside, and then the truck lane merges back in after the cars have sorted themselves out.
Without this device, you have the cars coming in at high speed from the right, having to deal with the slower trucks -- lots of dodging and weaving and braking and congestion.
We don't have it everywhere, but it is not uncommon.
Seems like a good idea to me. Around here, on busy roads with lots of merging the trucks drive the lane one over from the right-hand lane so that they don't have to deal with merging cars. It works, but means that lane (which is sometimes the middle lane if there are only three) is often the slowest.
