[wideminded]

The other habit here which bugs the hell out of me is people who will drive up an entrance ramp with a football field length of merge lane (or more) and suddenly slam their brakes because they can't immediately get into the driving lane.

I wonder which is worse: those people or the ones that drive down a mile of a "lane closed ahead" and expect to get in front of all the people who already pulled over.

[IYAS9YAS]

I wonder which is worse: those people or the ones that drive down a mile of a "lane closed ahead" and expect to get in front of all the people who already pulled over.

Some states have adopted the zipper approach where the sign says to maintain your lane until the merge, and then take turns merging. It actually works fairly well. It's better than everyone merging at once and leaving an entire lane empty, thus allowing said line-jumper, to get the jump on everyone else.

[Vigilanteman]

. . . those people or the ones that drive down a mile of a "lane closed ahead" and expect to get in front of all the people who already pulled over.

They are jag-offs, alright. But smart construction projects post signs which say "Use Both Lanes, 4 Way Stop Ahead." I was on one of those out west somewhere. It worked very neatly. The first car in the open lane and closed lane took turns and everybody got through much quicker than the usual PENN-Dot style of closing a mile's worth of lane with the back and forth jockeying.