On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 10:07:46 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 04:14:08 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:

On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 9:17:00 PM UTC-4, rbowman wrote:
On 10/07/2015 07:37 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:

The ones who drive me mad are those who simply will not merge until the
merge lane ends. They don't look, they don't try to fit in, they just
follow the white line on the right until there ain't no merge lane
anymore. Doesn't matter that the other drivers already made an opening
for them, they're just following the white line.

Better than that are the construction areas where one lane is closed
ahead and the signs give everyone time to merge into the remaining two.
Some idiots always go as far as they can on the closed lane figuring
they can force their way in. With a little coordination truckers can
create their own rolling roadblocks to put an end to that game.

You don't need truckers. I do the road block thing all the time. I just hang out in the closed lane next to the spot where I belong in the open lane and move along with the traffic. No one gets past me. 99%+ of the drivers in the open lane know exactly what I'm doing and keep my spot open for me.

They don't even need to be trained.

All you're doing is creating a different merge point. Once traffic is
heavy enough to start backing up, the logical and safe way is fill
both lanes and take turns merging where the lane ends.
But if you want to be the traffic cop, have at it.

On the road to Ft Myers beach where they have a 2 lane to one lane
merge, they put a light in that open each lane in turn. It seems to
work OK.
Usually where I see the truckers blocking the closed lanes is at
construction sites.