The correct way to merge in a construction zone?

How many exits are getting blocked?


Last week I was behind a super trucker playing traffic cop and holding back traffic in the right hand lane. We were 5 miles from the merge point and one mile from my exit.

The other way to look at it is like pouring water through a funnel. Pouring into one funnel has a rate of 10 gallons an hour. If you put a second funnel above the first, flow rate will decrease.

 

You are correct
3 key words in your post
Real drivers
Radios
Those in short supply now...along with common sense & courtesy

 

Those people aren't using their brains.

No. You aren't using two funnels, you're just lifting the funnel up. Also, even if you did use two funnels, each with a flow rate of 10 gph, the flow rate remains 10 gph. You can stack twenty funnels, and it's still 10 gph.

Either way, if you want to wait until you get to the merge point, then you do you. I'm getting over at the first warning sign. Cutting in line isn't up there on my list of priorities.

 

"How was I supposed to know the messages on the flashing lighted signs applied to me? Someone should have posted a flashing lighted sign before those signs saying "Read Flashing Lighted Signs ahead. This lane closure wasn't on Google, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok."

 

With the density of traffic as high as it is, you cannot remove 50% of the real estate and expect things to continue flowing.
Add the usual confusion, human nature (me first), and the distracted (how many times do we read about someone plowing full speed into the backup?) and the situation is hopeless.

There is no Public Service Announcement campaign that will have any effect at all.

 

Ya can't fix stupid.
I'm old school and we just got over when we knew which lane to be in. Of course we had radios.
Didn't seem that difficult of a concept to grasp.
But now no one wants to be behind a truck and they die proving it..oh well Darwin's theory plays out day after day.

 

If everyone would look for an opening and merge into it before reaching the merge point there would be no need for people to slow down and let others in.

 

Exactly this. Those self-entitled ****heads mess it up for everybody.

People who use the ending lane as a passing lane are people who I do not let in.