Why Block The Lane?

The quickest way thru a lane closure is to zipper merge at the last minute... keeping the lane closure as short a distance as possible...,,,,,

Rolling roadblocks are for idiots.....

Even faster way is for traffic to maintain the full amout of lanes by crowding over to left/ right to get around the problem. Using the breakdown lane or whatever.....

 

The rolling road block allows for the forced merge to be put out aways from the accident sight. This allow emergency vehicles the use of one of the lanes that is blocked at the crash site. Some states have figured that out others believe in the Zipper Merge. I have be thanked by LEOs many times for helping.

 

because theyre idiots who dont understand what makes traffic move faster is letting people in and keeping pace,not trying to block someone. everyone is so consumed with everyone else gettin ahead of them, just keep pace an let people in, if it still backs up theres just too many vehicles trying to occupy one space, but blocking the lanes doesnt help. now cue the idiots who will still say it works lol

 

How are autominous trucks and platooning trucks gonna handle this? I can see cars cutting in between them until they are so far apart they cant platoon.....lol

 

That's off-topic, but I think that's an interesting thing as well. Maybe it won't matter to autonomous vehicles because unlike humans they don't need a to take a break and therefore won't be delayed much. And I suppose if there are platooning vehicles, they'll drive so closely that other vehicles can't get in-between them. I wonder..

 

The idea of platooning trucks is precisely in order to save fuel. In order to do that they need to be close enough to draft, about 20' apart or less at highway speeds. There won't be enough room for four wheelers to want to risk getting in between. BUT when they slow down that gap should decrease. Now you have a platoon of trucks blocking a LONG entry into a merge. That will be interesting.

 

Not from my experience. There's a reason many states have signs about a half mile from the merge that say, "Merge NOW. State Law".

I haven't had the pleasure of driving in Europe, but I understand the merge laws are strictly enforced. This makes traffic give room and merge well in advance of the lane closure.

Waiting until the last second to merge means folks often come to a complete stop when other folks try to prevent them from merging. Now you have a stoppage. That stoppage will start extending back for miles in heavy traffic.

I think the reason Oklahoma LEO's started deputizing rolling road blocks was to prevent stopped traffic at simple road merges. There have been far too many rear end collisions at these stoppages, often multiple collisions before a given lane closure.

Kudos to OK LEO's for asking truckers to become part of the solution.

 

30 plus years paving.... I do lane closures.


Traffic is like water . The shorter the restriction the faster the flow . It just takes people to work together.

 

Kudos my ###. If johnny special deputized got in a crack up, bet a dollar says leo leaves him hanging. I dont give one rats ### bow many years ya been out here. Btw, just for fun, you do realize that the story of leo requesting a truck to do a rolling RIGHT UP TO the merge, is creating the zipper where before there were igits...

 

It's called "forcing people to take their turn" or "taking control of the situation"

Most 4 wheelers have no respect for others so it is a way of forcing folks to take their turn