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I've been dutifully queuing for most of my 40 years driving but I fully understand that this is because it feels like a massive societal demand not because it is the right or sensible thing to do. Whether the people driving down the right hand lane are self-important entitled pricks or just doing the right thing logically doesn't really matter, it just isn't worth getting upset about. You have the same option as them but choose not to take it as you don't want the hassle of hoping somebody will let you in when you want to merge. Your choice.
I was trying to think of where this is best illustrated and for me it's the road which is the continuation of Richmond Road going over Newport Road towards the Docks. Everyone queues in the left hand lane there to eventually get onto the link road around East Canal Wharf. This backs up beyond the Newport Road junction yet the right hand lane is virtually empty most of the time despite this being the logical lane for this journey as the left hand lane also feeds the splott bridge road. It's madness I tell you...
Use both lanes!
I have this every evening on my way home from work.
Everyone queues in the left lane which backs up to the roundabout and stops traffic in 3 different directions.
I go straight in the right lane and go straight to the end every time. You get some idiots who seem to think that is cheating somehow, beeping their horns or gesticulating, when they are the ones in the wrong.
And then there are the ones who try to drive in both lanes to stop it from happening. Who made them in charge of which lane you can drive in?
But it's the correct way to use filter lanes according to the Highway Code. If an equal number of people used both lanes and allowed merging in turn the traffic would flow a lot more smoothly and everyone would get where they we going quicker.
But because of some weird British notion about queue jumping and people being petty about nothing the whole thing doesn't work because people sit in the one lane and get annoyed about people merging correctly.
There's a junction in bath where this was so bad they've had I put up a sign saying "use both lanes, THEN merge".
Everyone was going in the left lane only and it was causing gridlock at a roundabout just behind.
All these drivers getting annoyed at the people in the right lane for "cheating" when the entire time they were the ones ****ing things up for everyone.
Barry Dragon is right NQAT.
From the Wikipedia article:
Some people in this thread with feelings of insecurity NQAT.Governments hold campaigns to promote the late merge method because irritation, aggression and feelings of insecurity easily occur while "zipping". Often drivers who change lanes too early do not like to see other drivers continue until the end of the drop-away lane, even though this late merging is encouraged by the authorities. In Belgium and Germany, a driver can be penalized for not using the late merge method.
So what your saying is everybody should queue jump as that would stop the queue in the queueing lane
But wouldn't that make a queue in the queue jumping lane???
Sounds like picking a till at the supermarket
At least until a new one opens and causes a free for all
Saw this video and it reminded me of this thread.
Who is in the wrong in this video?
There's a few different circumstances here:
Where a road simply merges as part of the normal road system, yes both lanes should be used to the point of merging. That's what they are there for and often the reason why two lanes are used in the first place are to reduce traffic behind. There, Barry has correct logic. Merge in turn unless you're an arsehole.
Motorways with lanes blocked are often marked with red crosses above the lanes where lanes are closed ahead. This means the lane is closed and it's technically illegal to cane down these lanes to the front of the queue. If you do this, you're an arsehole.
Dual carriage ways with the signs signalling that a lane is closed ahead, in my opinion, should be treated similarly. As soon as you know the lane is closed ahead, you should make efforts to merge. Seeing people do so and caning past them to the front makes you a bit of an arsehole.
However - if any of you knowingly bomb down the inside lane coming up to the Bryn Glas tunnels at rush hour and cut in at the last - I wish you a long slow painful excruciating death. You are a **** of the highest order.