Lane ending merge ahead.... impeding progress thoughts?

Back when I actually lived in Phoenix the Black Canyon Freeway was the only freeway in town. I lived out on Peoria, and worked out of a place on McDowell. 19th was far quicker between work and home than the 17.
Actually, it was pretty easy to get all over the valley back then. Until the Salt would flood....

Don't know where you are, but sounds sort of like heaven!

 

I sometimes wonder if merges, especially in constructions zones, could somehow be facilitated by a traffic sign sort of like the Metered highway ramps in some places because cars can't work out the timing on their own.

 

Sure put lights on the freeway. Im all over it.

However, at least we can build the #### thing 10 feet thick the first time so that no one will have to touch it for 60 years. You should see our 67, that one was paved in 1962 and the plates have been failing for years. But don't do it with a car, get a pickup truck. You will only ruin your car here.

 

Some locations will have signs that say use both lanes until merge point and then signs indicating the merge point. The idea being to get people to do the zipper merge. It seems to work pretty good.

There will always be some who will do pretty much anything to get ahead 1 spot though.

 

That's my neck of the woods. Last summer those merges were becoming a major cluster fornication, with multi mile parking lots. I was northbound on I-35 in the right lane, stopped in traffic, when I noticed two LEO's with their lights flashing, working up the hammer lane.

When the lead LEO came next to me he signalled for me to roll my window down. He instructed me to get in the hammer lane and form a rolling road block with the truck just in front of me. He pulled forward, with the rear LEO blocking idiots behind him so I could get in the hammer lane and then he blew past me in the median. I pulled up beside the truck in front and let him know we were deputized.

I noticed several truck road blocks behind and more being set up ahead.

Pretty soon the traffic started to flow. We were going the construction zone speed limit by the time the merge happened. I hung slightly behind the truck to my right, then gunned it just before the merge and no four wheelers tried to follow.

After more than one episode like that it has become habit for those of us who are local, so if you see the opportunity to prevent congestion by creating a rolling road block on I-35 in Oklahoma, then you are doing a service.

 

my rule of thumb is "you people need to get out of my way, yield, pull over, or stay home" whatever you prefer so that I GET THERE 1 SECOND BEFORE YOU.

 

Actually the guy holding back the closed lane is actually helping. You people want a zipper merge. So the blocker creates a full closed lane right up to the merge. Now the zipper is in play. What is the problem people?

 

The problem is when johnny i know best shuts down the closing lane 1 mile early. The real problem is not enough people in the ending lane generates the runners. If everyone filled into whatever lane was shortest, and merged at the end, (thats how it works) it would go as fast as possible. But, between the people who get in line 4 miles back and play nuts to butts, the people who run hard and fast then cut in causing brake waves, and johnny i know best truckers pretending they are traffic control officers the system fails.