HGV drivers blocking both lanes in a merge in turn

In the states it is used very efficiently by the public, it just seems over here people think that it means a lane closure so they should get out of the closing lane as soon as possible, thus creating a single lane queue. And with our british mentality of queuing, anyone who is seen to be "pushing in" causes uproar and "should not be let in".

The general public aren't educated on the subject enough for it to be applied effectively.
 
kaiowas said:
To all those who don't merge in turn, if you went to the supermarket and got to the checkouts to find one till with 30 people waiting in line and another with just 2 I'm assuming you'd just join the massive queue, clogging up a couple of aisles and giving nasty looks to anyone who dared to use the other one?
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Yeah. They probably are the sort of people that don't understand DNS round-robin load balancing either :p
 
[TW]Fox;15679462 said:
There are two peoples of people in this world.

People who understand merge in turn, and simpletons.
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I think this is the problem though, very few people seem to understand it as a concept.

I had to do a little face palm as they were complaining about people who fly past the line of traffic then push in on QI a couple of weeks back.
 
mr_x_plosion said:
I passed a long queue of traffic this week on the A45 due to people not doing it the right way.
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I must have made up a mile or so on a queue on the M1 over Christmas. The vast majority of people moved over as soon as they saw the first lane closure sign leaving the left lane completely free for a long way before the actual lane closure. I had to keep checking I wasn't doing it wrong as there really was no-one else in the free lane.
 
Ah, this old chestnut again :p

I have fond memories of overtaking a queue about 1 mile long on the A1 then being pulled out on by one of those gigantic rubble carrying lorries, who then proceeded to block me all the way to the roadworks......

And another time a similar thing happened as above, but replace lorry with very angry BMW driving moron, who again blocked me from getting through and giving constant hand signals for me to move over into his lane, like I was doing something wrong? :D He was doing this for a long long time, as I found it satisfying to ignore him
 
I suppose there's an outside chance that the reason the HGVs do this is because car owners can be retards and decide to not let the lorry in because they don't want to be 'stuck behind a lorry' - so the HGVs being together lets one of them let the other in.

I'm sure this sounds far too a) sensible and b) co-operative and so the reality is they are chatting to each other and laughing at the build-up of cars behind them :p
 
kaiowas said:
To all those who don't merge in turn, if you went to the supermarket and got to the checkouts to find one till with 30 people waiting in line and another with just 2 I'm assuming you'd just join the massive queue, clogging up a couple of aisles and giving nasty looks to anyone who dared to use the other one?
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Not really a very a useful analogy; in the case of closed lanes this would be equivalent to only one till being open. This being the case, would you join at the end of the queue for this single till, or would you walk past everybody to the front and try to get served next?
 
For those who don't understand why your supposed to merge in turn at the end of the lane rather than where the queue starts, it halves the length of the queues, meaning that the traffic is less likely to clog up junctions and roundabouts further back.
 
I love it when this comes up, its like the air plane on a conveyor belt thing :D

I still won't let you in, the A23 merges from 3 into 2 and that is permanent yet is a constant source of accidents due to numpties "merging" right at the last moment into a gap that isn't there at speed. I'd question the reason for anyone doing it, bet it has little to do with the highway code.
 
peige said:
I love it when this comes up, its like the air plane on a conveyor belt thing :D

I still won't let you in, the A23 merges from 3 into 2 and that is permanent yet is a constant source of accidents due to numpties "merging" right at the last moment into a gap that isn't there at speed. I'd question the reason for anyone doing it, bet it has little to do with the highway code.
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We do it because quite frankly we are cleverer than you, we can read, we use common sense and therefore its highly likely our journey is more important than yours. You are probably only going to buy a tabloid newspaper or something whereas we are probably going to an important meeting on faciliation and procurement excercises.
 
Dogbreath said:
Not really a very a useful analogy; in the case of closed lanes this would be equivalent to only one till being open. This being the case, would you join at the end of the queue for this single till, or would you walk past everybody to the front and try to get served next?
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Depends if there are two queuing lanes set up. I think this is where your analogy becomes useless :p
 
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Oh look, it's almost half the physical length, thus being less likely to block things further back down the road! Whod've thunk it?!?

It baffles me why people find this such a difficult concept.
 
ci_newman said:
What about those moronic ****** that drive right up to the roadworks even if there is a solid line of cars to their left hand side yet still feel it nescessary to force their way in at the very end
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The enormous bright red signs would suggest that if there is a solid line of cars to their left and they can still just drive up the right hand line, it might not be them who is moronic.. ;)
 
I did a picture version :p

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Left: How typical British morons feel the need to queue
Right: How the queue should be formed if the average driver had half a brain

I wonder if people would get it more if the single lane at the end was in the middle, rather than on a particular side?
 
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