Why do people queue in one lane?

[Rimsy]

You're going to have to explain this a bit more...how can it 'obviously' slow down traffic by using two lanes rather than one?

Because a single line of traffic is going to ultimately move faster than 2 merging into 1 as it doesn't have the slowdown issues of idiots in either lane "pushing in" or not letting a car that's raced past you go in front.
Ultimately people are just doing what the road signs say but a lot of the time it's just encouraging people to act like selfish *****s unnecessarily.

 

[helpimcrap]

"I'll block 500 yards of road so I'm not another half a dozen cars back." Must fit in nicely with the truck driver mentality of "ooh, I can go 0.2mph quicker than the truck in front so I'll overtake for the next 5 miles." While the other guy sits there thinking "I could back off by a couple of mph and get this done in seconds but let's drag it out for 5 minutes". They may be against deadlines but aren't we all? Saving a few seconds here and there doesn't make a difference.

EU regulations dictate they can lose their licence if over by a few seconds. Car drivers are unaffected and can drive for 24hrs. Those few seconds turn into minutes as every impatient Tom, Dick or Harry follow them through. They don't want to push in front of others who want to get home as well that's all.

Deadlines mean nothing when it's your livelihood at stake.

Ps they are limited and have different weight loads so one truck really is quicker than another - foot flat to floor on limiter is far easier than lifting slightly for miles on end because you don't want to offend the little people.

I'm not a truck driver but I've passed my class 2 so have an appreciation. You would not believe how difficult it is to stop them things on a motorway when cars pull in front of you and slam brakes on because the idiots nearly missed their lane! How more accidents don't happen is purely the lorry drivers.

 

[helpimcrap]

I always use the second lane if it's clear, but in fairness, I have noticed people are generally a lot more willing to merge with you if you hang back slightly and go in very defensively. If you go steaming up right to where everyone merges, this gets peoples backs up and they end up trying to block you out.

This - it's all about attitude. Mainly BMW/Audi drivers too.

 

[Orionaut]

Because a single line of traffic is going to ultimately move faster than 2 merging into 1 as it doesn't have the slowdown issues of idiots in either lane "pushing in" or not letting a car that's raced past you go in front.
Ultimately people are just doing what the road signs say but a lot of the time it's just encouraging people to act like selfish *****s unnecessarily.

Indeed, I have seen situations where at busy times, short (and relatively useless) sections of DC have been coned off to a single lane "To improve traffic flow"

And yes, It really does work!

 

[Stringy]

People who are anti-merge in turn are morons.

Similarly, people who whizz past a roundabout queue to do a full lap before going left/straight-on also deserve a special level of hell as they are too selfish to realise they are helping to cause the queue in the first place.

 

[ShakenNstirred]

I have seen it on the m1 motorway this past few days.
Overhead speed signs counting down from 70 down to 40 and then 4 lanes down to 1 and idiots just taking no notice, you end up in traffic doing 5mph because of the people now trying to get in to the 1 open lane.
Last night I had some stupid woman flashing me to get out of the way when all 4 lanes were down to 50 and I was doing 50. She over took me and slammed on her brakes once in front of me. Really really no need for it.


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[Akagi]

I'm happy to be selfish towards hundreds of people I don't know so that I can get home half an hour sooner, if it isn't obnoxious and obvious... For example skipping a queue and going all the way around the roundabout. Its perfectly legal and isn't dangerous, and most people wouldn't even notice it had happened.

If that makes me a dick then so be it.

 

[[TW]Fox]

Ps they are limited and have different weight loads so one truck really is quicker than another - foot flat to floor on limiter is far easier than lifting slightly for miles on end because you don't want to offend the little people.

So trucks don't have cruise control?

Odd.

 

[Biffa]

Because a single line of traffic is going to ultimately move faster than 2 merging into 1 as it doesn't have the slowdown issues of idiots in either lane "pushing in" or not letting a car that's raced past you go in front.
Ultimately people are just doing what the road signs say but a lot of the time it's just encouraging people to act like selfish *****s unnecessarily.

Actually there have been a study or two done that show that slow moving merging traffic is actually faster than a single lane of traffic given the same amount of traffic going through a given area of road.

Studies by the Texas Transportation Institute, Minnesota Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration have shown that the zipper merge (thus named because both lanes are used and drivers take turns merging one car at a time, like the teeth of a zipper) improves traffic flow by as much as 15 percent, according to the Detroit News. MnDOT also found it reduces the total length of a backup by as much as 50 percent, and commonly by 40 percent.
"Although motorists seem to believe that a single lane of traffic flowing into a work zone should flow through unrestricted and much faster without a slowdown for merging traffic, this just does not happen in the real world of traffic hazards," MnDOT says. "Motorists slow down because of the uncertainty of the drivers' actions ahead, poor visibility beyond, signs/drums/barricades and (other obstructions). That slows down the rest of the line of traffic, and the longer the queue, the more it slows down and a longer time before it regains speed."

Read more at https://www.cars.com/articles/2014/...ng-motorists-isnt-a-snap/#6YsWTEDtebuVJIKU.99

 

[Skillmister]

Except real life traffic is more like trying to do up a 45 year old rusty zipper while wearing arctic lobster gloves.

 

[Biffa]

Thats what the article says, though, its edjikashun innit

 

[LupoLover]

Just like M40 Junction 14 every morning, people not joining hardshoulder queue but using lane 1 to jump in at the last moment.

Ah the good old JLR Que! Better now tho, still full of JLR driving standards tho!

 

[LiE]

If that makes me a dick then so be it.

Yes, yes it does.

 

[MooMoo444]

Yes, yes it does.

Hey, look everyone, it's one of those queue guys

Let's all point and laugh

 

[LiE]

Hey, look everyone, it's one of those queue guys

Let's all point and laugh

Acme is talking about how he happily overtakes an entire queue and goes round the entire roundabout to take the exit everyone is queueing for. Not this merging business.

 

[Kaeo]

I guess I'm joining Acme in that special part of hell! let's call it a life hack and be extra annoying. If I wanted to wait in a queue I'd get the bus.

 

[LiE]

I guess I'm joining Acme in that special part of hell! let's call it a life hack and be extra annoying. If I wanted to wait in a queue I'd get the bus.

Thanks for slowing down the queue for us considerate drivers.

 

[Kaeo]

You're welcome. <3

 

[Flack88]

These posts always deliver comedy

 

[Jonnycoupe]

Ah the good old JLR Que! Better now tho, still full of JLR driving standards tho!

Nah that was Junction12. Awesome now.

Junction 14 is a mare, j15 slip is too long and early morning facing straight into the sun.