Why do idiots try and control my driving?

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This morning driving to work i came onto a 40/50mph dual carriageway not a fast one, like an urban one...

And a sign popped up

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but for 2 lanes to 1 and in 800 yards.

Anyways, i'm thinking right, carry on in the lane i'm in for a bit and then merge in decent time - seems sensible as opposed to queuing in the already growing (albeit slow moving) tailback (tailing back onto a roundabout with a busy A road).

When lo and behold a lad in the Fiesta in front decides he's a traffic officer and straddles both lanes in a bid to stop any kind of progression at all. He's deemed it his responsibility to control the flow of traffic, and he knows its best to make us all go single file and block up the roundabout behind us. Nice one.

So, to play with him, i nudged my nose up the inside lane, not overtaking, just offering the bait, resulting in him violently swerving back across.

What next? Nudge my nose outside of him, and yep, he swerved violently back out to block me.

Was going to make a game of it, but frankly i wasnt awake enough at 8am. Idiots. :p
 
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if there was already a queue formed then you wouldnt of merged in good time, you would have sat waiting for some kind person to either let you in or you would have forced yourself in.
 
The guy in the fiesta was being a bit of a tool, imo. I find it better to let drivers go past in the outside lane, then laugh as no one lets them into the traffic flow :)
 
Yea i hate people who drive right down the lane thats closed off and either push into the traffic or wait till someone lets them in, i usually avoid letting this type of driver back into the flow of traffic.
 
If there are 3 lanes going down to 2 then there is no reason not to use all 3 lanes until they merge into 2. I know we're British and like to queue (probably genetic memory from the war) but if there are 3 lanes then I'm using which ever one has the shortest queue.
 
Del Lardo said:
If there are 3 lanes going down to 2 then there is no reason not to use all 3 lanes until they merge into 2. I know we're British and like to queue (probably genetic memory from the war) but if there are 3 lanes then I'm using which ever one has the shortest queue.
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There were only two lanes though!

Doing this must make the traffic slower, after all people are having to constantly start and stop to let impatient people in.

Usual candidates are BMW drivers, seem to think queueing is below them!.
 
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tbh im on his side, dont like people jumping the que, i love it when lorries do this :D especially when my manager zooms past only to be held up by a lorry straddling and then no one letting him in :D

It just means the flow is MUCH better, not stopping and starting like a yoyo
 
MrMoon said:
maybe cos you were being cheeky and bombing up the outside to get the the front of the queue
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There's nothing cheeky about that. What's the point in having 800,yards of an empty lane, just to be courteous and British. I hate the way people here expect you to pull into the left lane at the first sign that the right lane will be closed. If anyone does use the right lane up until the lane closure, people seem to try their best to teach them a lesson and block them off.

It's stupid.
 
Scuzi said:
There's nothing cheeky about that. What's the point in having 800,yards of an empty lane, just to be courteous and British. I hate the way people here expect you to pull into the left lane at the first sign that the right lane will be closed. If anyone does use the right lane up until the lane closure, people seem to try their best to teach them a lesson and block them off.

It's stupid.
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I agree in part, if i see the lane shutting in 800 yards i won't go "oh My" and pull right over but i will pull over in good time, i won't leave it till the last 50 yards to cut in.
 
Firestar_3x said:
I agree in part, if i see the lane shutting in 800 yards i won't go "oh My" and pull right over but i will pull over in good time, i won't leave it till the last 50 yards to cut in.
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but thats exactly what he was saying?

Pug said:
Anyways, i'm thinking right, carry on in the lane i'm in for a bit and then merge in decent time - seems sensible as opposed to queuing in the already growing tailback (tailing back onto a roundabout with a busy A road).
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If the lane i'm in is closing i'll usually stay in it until I reach the 200yd board then I'll start looking for a gap in the other lane I can get into. There's no point in making a queue longer than it needs to be making the tailback affect other roads/junctions/roundabouts etc.

When they have to do a 2 into 1 merge I really wish those setting up the roadworks would merge the two lines into a single lane down the centre of the road (which would then lead off to one side if necessary) and enforce a 'merge in turn'. That way neither lane of traffic would feel they have any kind of priority and everything would flow much nicer without all this kind of rubbish.
 
I had some tawasak in a ford galaxy the other week come up the right hand side of me trying to cut in to jump a queue of around 12 cars behind a Hurse. I didn't let the pillock in.

However in this case there was only 1 lane and he had decided to make one for himself!!!
 
heh, seems to spark controversy everywhere this topic.

Good to there are some sensible road users out there who know how to help keep traffic flowing.

and fwiw i wasnt "bombing down the outside and cutting people up" i was in the outside lane when i realised and so decided to continue for a while (200 yd board good example) and then look to merge, not force my way in.

if this muppet in the fester was unhappy, then dont let people in, but only do that when someone is trying to cut in. Straddling lanes to prevent people doing stuff is childish, dangerous and silly.

People bombing down and cutting in last minute annoys me too folks, but theres a happy medium to miles of empty trmac and just avoiding the cones...
 
British drivers do seem to love queuing. I can think of a road in Halifax where it merges 2 lanes into 1 and to prevent a single lane queue getting too long the council has put up signs that explicitly tell drivers to use both lanes and merge in turn :)
 
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