It grinds my gears when...

TreeSemdyZee · 03-16-2011, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Zaggeron

I feel for you. One of my pet peeves is people who stay in merge lanes until they disappear. Often they are acting like it's their lane that remains and the left lane is merging into the right, but it is the other way around. The merge lane is for .. well .. merging. It's not for seeing how long you can keep the guy to your left guessing.

Amen to that, sort of.
I drive on a three lane highway which goes from Indiana into Kentucky. The right lane of the bridge is basically an exit onto a couple of busy highways. People stay in the middle lane until the last possible minute then merge into the right lane. Meanwhile slowing everyone in the middle lane down and, for some reason unbeknownst to me, also slows down the left lane.
Generally when this is happening, they are jabbering away on the flippin' cellphones. Pi***s me off royally.

Zaggeron · 03-16-2011, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by TreeSemdyZee

Amen to that, sort of.
I drive on a three lane highway which goes from Indiana into Kentucky. The right lane of the bridge is basically an exit onto a couple of busy highways. People stay in the middle lane until the last possible minute then merge into the right lane. Meanwhile slowing everyone in the middle lane down and, for some reason unbeknownst to me, also slows down the left lane.
Generally when this is happening, they are jabbering away on the flippin' cellphones. Pi***s me off royally.

ha. That's like another pet peeve (I got a million of them) -- cutting in line! In my morning commute I cross an overpass that joins another freeway. I'm in the middle lane and need to get into the right lane to exit. It's usually pretty busy and I try to get right as soon as possible, but there are always those who stay in the faster flowing middle lane then try to merge in right before the exit ...

ClemsonWill · 03-16-2011, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by TreeSemdyZee

Amen to that, sort of.
I drive on a three lane highway which goes from Indiana into Kentucky. The right lane of the bridge is basically an exit onto a couple of busy highways. People stay in the middle lane until the last possible minute then merge into the right lane. Meanwhile slowing everyone in the middle lane down and, for some reason unbeknownst to me, also slows down the left lane.
Generally when this is happening, they are jabbering away on the flippin' cellphones. Pi***s me off royally.

You know I think the more studies come out that this is a dangerous activity the more people do it. On my way home from work I sit in crawling traffic for about 15 minutes. As I look around everyone is talking on their cell phone. It makes sense that every other day someone gets rearended in this section of highway.

daisuke149 · 03-16-2011, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by TreeSemdyZee

Amen to that, sort of.
I drive on a three lane highway which goes from Indiana into Kentucky. The right lane of the bridge is basically an exit onto a couple of busy highways. People stay in the middle lane until the last possible minute then merge into the right lane. Meanwhile slowing everyone in the middle lane down and, for some reason unbeknownst to me, also slows down the left lane.
Generally when this is happening, they are jabbering away on the flippin' cellphones. Pi***s me off royally.

primary cause of all the traffic in Atlanta! the people merging at last minute.

Heading down GA 400 its 4 lanes at I-285.

People in the far left lane only change to the far right lane about 100 yards or something from when the exit is.

Causes everyone to slow down.. and brakes are a compounding affect.

If person A Brakes for 2 seconds, more than likely person B behind them will brake for a little longer. And then Person C etc.

Accelerating is the same thing then after they make you slow down.

Person A takes off, Person B takes off like .3 seconds after he sees person A go. Person C a lil later etc.

When you do this with ALOOOOOT of damn cars and also then people not otherwise paying attention = traffic.

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